Quoting Garry Shapiro <garry@ni6t.com>: An nice LCD display monitor will make you a happy camper on 160. The price on eBay is very reasonable today. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ ___________________________
Larry, I doubt very much if you had a direct path to RA4LW so a more easterly antenna would bring better results. I have found here in the Virgin Islands that Northern European stations do much bett
Quoting "N2TK, Tony" <tony.kaz@verizon.net>: Yes indeed Tony...the cage feed will increase the BW significantly. An easy way to make a cage is to just drop wire from the towers top guy wires using in
To add to my earlier post the cage in my case is only supported by guy wires insulated from the tower. The wire skirt tap point in my case is at 41 feet with an A3 at the top of the Rohn 45 tower. I
Quoting Donald Chester <k4kyv@hotmail.com>: Indeed it is and I should have checked but many edirect eMails are asking to look at this. I have a printed copy of the paper which I will try to scan for
Quoting "Richard (Rick) Karlquist (N6RK)" <richard@karlquist.com>: Rick, The heavy duty tapered aluminum supports used for shopping center parking lot lighting and street lights with the flanges on t
Quoting Jim Jarvis <jimjarvis@verizon.net>: split operation for international QSO's Split operation for rare DX-peditions may be good but as a general rule it is bad as it reduces available specturm
Quoting Richard Cariello <rcariello@si.rr.com>: Rich, Since you have a ground system to reference, the best and most stable balloon supported vertical IMHO would be the 1/4 wave, or even better yet a
Quoting "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>: Guy, We are dealing with Maxwell's (1873) equations from the 19th Century which are still the holy grail of today's politically correct EE's. Atte
Quoting Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>: The baloon lengths has increaeed by curiousity in learning what prinicples are working here. Theoretically, very low angle radiation could be obtained by a ba
Quoting Craig Clark <jcclark@wildblue.net>: He was on last night at about 2200Z with a 589 booming signal 1814.8 and QSX up 2. I did not work him as Larry was handling a huge EU pileup. He has repeat
Quoting Stan Stockton <stan@aqity.org>: Probably not because there are so many other factors like ground conductivity etc. If you have a good match fine...if your time is limited try a omega match so
Dear Topbanders, Although I was able to work more than over 60 countries (which means that Jeff VY2ZM got 120!) my Q-rate on 820 was way below the 1000 contacts that John KP2ZZ (G4RCG) did from my QT
Quoting Rick Karlquist <richard@karlquist.com>: on receive. Nothing unusual on TX here except added a dozen 1/4 radials where radials were needed. The correct url for a picture of the antenna and qth
Quoting Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>: OK That does it! Mea Maxima Culpa! I suffered with a low Q rate because I screwed up by respecting the Band Plan and not operating on 1.868! R
Quoting Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>: OK That does it! Mea Maxima Culpa! I suffered with a low Q rate because I screwed up by respecting the Band Plan and not operating on 1.868! R
Quoting N4BAA - Jose Castillo <n4baa@cox.net>: Jose, A good ground is not what you required nor necessary to make a Beverage play. One trick you might try in the future is to *not* ground the Beverag
Quoting "N2TK, Tony" <tony.kaz@verizon.net>: Tony, Apart from the peak voltage considerations which would exceed 5KV at 1KW for some feed designs, ceramic caps in many cases have problems with handli
Quoting Ken Claerbout <K4ZW@adelphia.net>: it's time they either fix the problem or suspend their bulletins on Topband until the problem is resolved.> IMO they need to realize that they have wiped ou
Quoting Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>: Having been on topband for a long time, even back when the FCC had meticulous power regulations down to 25 watts in some areas, I would appreciate hearing the