All 160 contests are different!! Viva'La Difference G ED King K8OT I say again if it ain't broke don't fix it **A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.
Use a spark plug with the gap a little closer for a spark gap. It also keeps static charges building up on other antennas. ED K8OT **Great Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. (http://pr.atwola.c
My inverted L is 100 Ft Vert and abt 45? Hors spaced abt 30 ft from my tower I adjusted it with my MFJ-259B Analyzer at the base for lowest SWR at the base (SWR 2 ) by triming length. and fed it with
I do not have room for beverages so I use a shielded loop 6' in Dia.with a DX Engineering Preamp it seems to have a lot lower noise level than my inverted L. I was wondering if I should Ground the co
AMEN Thanks for saying it like it is. ED K8OT _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband
A beverage is nothing but a Long wire Ant, the more wavelengths the more the lobes are off the ends and the higher the gain the terminating resister cancels out the rear lobes, if you take four long
YUP those chair sitters I got on for while. I thought I would pass out a few points so I was just S&P with 100 wts. because I have a job here at home now. and can't put in a lot of hours. I ran acros
Some people would rather play with antennas than get on the air, if that's their thing go for it. ME I would rather get on the air and work stations. I just let my auto tuner make the rig happy losse
Great reply Rick I fondly remember my novice days at 6-7 wpm in my first contest. I had a XTal as close to the bottem of the 15 Mtr. novice band I dared to go and my slow CQ was answered by a lot of
Why do all these people give a rip if someone gets satisfaction working somebody a long distance with low power I have a friend who enjoys working QRP But he is on the east coast and I am envious I c
There is nothing more aggravating than listening to somebody calling cq over and over and never listening. so you can give them a call. you give them a couple of dits to try and get them to listen an
I used the 80 Mtr ant the same way when I was a Novice and used a Central Electronics 20A on Xtal control. My old Elmer Earl W8CTY told me about it. It worked great. ED K8OT In a message dated 1/21/2
I wish I had taken Pics of our Rhombic Antenna farm at Camp Darby near Livorno (Leghorn) Italia At the Xmtr site we had Rhombic ant. in every direction 360 ft on a side wit three wires on each leg th
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Radio-Wave+Propagation When I was in the Signal Corp, Our NCOIC and a ham friend, for an experiment, used Knife edge propagation to link our receive site at
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