- 1. Topband: Shunt feeding a tower with side mounted Yagi (score: 1)
- Author: k9nr@juno.com (Donald L Kerouac)
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:02:48 +0100
- My 160 transmit antenna is a shunt fed vertical (overall DC/RF height is about 116 ft) consisting of 94 ft of Rohn 45 guyed at three levels with 1/4" EHS, 15 ft of mast & a VHF vertical. Ground syste
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-05/msg00187.html (9,861 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Impedance Bridges (score: 1)
- Author: k9nr@juno.com (Donald L Kerouac)
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:18:16 -0600
- GR Bridges were standard equipment for anyone working on AM broadcast antennas. They are often still used. Probably the most commonly used instrument today is the Delta OIB-1 or OIB-3 Operating Imped
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00151.html (7,649 bytes)
- 3. Topband: re: DXpedition to ND (score: 1)
- Author: k9nr@juno.com (Donald L Kerouac)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:02:01 -0500
- The company I work for owned a three tower directional AM in Williston, ND. A new site was built and the old abandonded. The towers are about 200 foot tall with full ground systems. You could feed an
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-07/msg00015.html (7,001 bytes)
- 4. Topband: shunt-fed bandwidth (score: 1)
- Author: k9nr@juno.com (Donald L Kerouac)
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:40:31 -0500
- Something to keep in back of your mind if you're shunt or series feeding your tower for 160. If your antenna has a wonderfully wide bandwidth, it may be due to a mediocre ground system. Ground losses
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-09/msg00024.html (7,239 bytes)
- 5. Topband: 2-wire Beverages (score: 1)
- Author: k9nr@juno.com (Donald L Kerouac)
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:18:18 -0500
- I have built 2-wire Beverages using different configurations and terminations. My first was 2 fourteen gauge conductors spaced about six inches apart four feet off the ground. At the terminus, I floa
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-09/msg00131.html (7,258 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Top Band: Strange Band (score: 1)
- Author: k9nr@juno.com (Donald L Kerouac)
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:12:58 -0600
- I certainly have enjoyed reading about Jerry, WB9Z's signal and mine in Alaska during the contest! I can barely get my head through the shack doorway! However, when I compare my score to Jerry's, rea
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-03/msg00002.html (7,661 bytes)
- 7. Topband: Noise Canceling, et al (score: 1)
- Author: k9nr@juno.com (Donald L Kerouac)
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:01:33 -0600
- I very much enjoyed W8JI's and K0HA's comments on the MFJ and other noise cancelling units. I have a JPS ANC-4 and am happy with it. It does what I thought it would do, no more, no less. It seems tha
- /archives//html/Topband/1999-11/msg00053.html (8,771 bytes)
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