I'll have to look into that, Gary! Mine is much bigger. A little generator like that, I could keep in the house and pull out on the back deck when needed if it would supply enough power to run the ai
Hi, Tom! I just checked my junk mail folder and a LOT of messages have shown up there that don't normally go there, including msgs from Topband Reflector. Looks like you are bein hit pretty hard, but
Yes, Bruce, that's what happened to the 2000 ft WRAL-TV tower here some years back. They said that chunks of ice were coming off those gu y wires to the south the size of refrigerators. The unequal l
Well, Carl, it's question like yours that make the discussion interesting and point out opportunities for future investigation! 73, Charlie, K4OTV Bill VE3CSK said "I have been listening several even
Thanks, Mike! Well, I guess I was in denial, perhaps. The last time we had one of these, I wasn't so crippled. I should have made my way out to the garage and dragged out the generator and run the ca
Gee, that should work great, Tom! How is the shaft rotatoion speed controlled to maintain 60 Hz? I've been seriousl y considering installin a 25-40 KW generator with electric start and automatic fail
Well, I expect that you are right, Carl. Perhaps I was in denial! I haven't had to deal with one of these in a long time! I should have gotten out there and dragged out the generator and fired it up
Thanks, Tom! That all makes sense! Come to think of it, the Briggs & Stratton engine on my 5500 watt generator maintains its speed well. I don't know what sort of feedback it uses, but it's effective
HI, Carl! Well, I figured folks up in your area are next in line, and considering how quickly this has moved up here from the Gulf of Mexico I figured it wouldn't take too long to arrive up your way
Well, we didn't get as much ice as had been initially forecast last night, and my power stayed on! Thank the Lord for that! So, I stayed warm and comfortable and had a good night's sleep! Just stayin
Thanks, Carl! Guess it's your turn, now! Guess I'm not the only "hillbilly" on here! Tom said his yagis look like "noodles" and most all the support ropes for his wire antennas had broken under the i
Yikes!! BTW - that lower 40m yagi with the bent element probably works just fine! I don't know if you've ever modeled yagis with bent or missing elements, but the results are pretty interesting! Yagi
That's a lot of good information, Richard! Thanks for sharing! 73, Charlie, K4OTV The r-f loss at the operating frequency in a set of buried radials varies with the conductivity and permittivity of t
Hi, Bill Well, like you, I also live on a fairly small city lot with way too much bedrock coming up to the surface and a long concrete driveway, so buried radials just aren't feasible for me! So I hu
Yeah, just a few elevated resonant radials can work wonders as you have discovered, Carl! And rock does get in the way of buried radials!! The models teach that elevated resonant radials should work
I would expect it to work OK with 75 ohm cable. An open-circuited 1/4 wave line looks like a short at its sending end and you would be looking for a null as the line reaches a 1/4 wavelength, so I wo
Makes sense. The lower the return-loss, the deeper the null! 73, Charlie, K4OTV Not always -- stubs made with higher Vf cables are longer, so in my experience they come out about the same for attenua
There seems to be some confusion, Carl! First of all, since the gamma match (regardless of the diameter of the gamma "rod") is a shorted transmission line, less than 1/4 wavelength it WILL have serie
BTW "Resonance" => X=0 or jX = j0 73, Charlie, K4OTV --Original Message-- From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Carl Braun Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 7:14 PM To: Joe
Well, of course not, Tom! I need to be more precise and keep in mind the "audience" on this Reflector, and that you are always lrking out thereinthe weeds to chide and chastise me! :-) Of course devi