Z10043 used here. It's sold by Jack Smith K8ZOA who is an instrumentation and test engineer - which means all of his stuff is wrung out to the max. In the preamp business, there are a lot of loosely
It's a near miracle they finally got the permission to go. And then it cost an actual fortune to fund, even though it was relatively close. For the value that QSL represents, it's cheap at many times
I really don't understand the debate. The universe moves on and that includes ham radio. We can't rewind the clock - even if we could although I just bought a SX-101 so I could get the old feeling I
I just moved to the country a couple of years ago specifically to have space to build antennas. To me, that's traditional "real" radio. Your gear, your antennas, your effort. However I do understand
Art,s question has got me thinking about how the big multi-multi handle a bunch of receiving antennas routed to a bunch of stations? Here I'm looking at up to 8 rx antennas fed to 4 stations. But the
Thank you Frank. 1000' - wow. What is the topology of the fanout (single antenna to 6 op positions); do you hang a MC splitter or similar off the back of the K8ZOA preamps? I have looked at the K9AY
Tim - The HI-Z system supports feeding two rigs with independent direction selection in so2r. I think this is the right gadget for that system: http://www.hizantennas.com/asc.htm 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0
Douglas, You may want to move up a bit more. There is an AM broadcast on 1860. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie Hi, I am calling on 1861 Khz...only 100 watts. If someone would lik
Amen. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie Do not ever EVER sign /QRP !!! You are already most probably weak. It is NOT part of your callsign and worst of all, it wastes time. PLEASE
If you are going to make the order, consider using several in parallel to improve the surge handling capability. I use 6x 2700 ohms here. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie Thanks a
I have OY from Mouser. Someone said the interested value was out of stock. If you are going to ship to Spain, then get the right type (OY) and just pick a higher value where the parallel combo will g
Yes. They are cheap and I had no idea of what the lightning risk would be here. I've had to do work on the active antennas a few times so I know ground level lighting currents are around. But never h
Fortunately participation is not mandatory for those who have had enough. Given the winter stew was a thunderstorm extravaganza for most of the midwest, another shot at it prior to spring would be at
Good point Gary. My feelings exactly. HNY. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie To me, I say what the hell, a good contest is a good contest. You want four of them, then run four of t
I use a Microham SM to control the Hi-Z (and all the other antennas). Microham has a small application which will let you run the SM from the desktop and thus steer your antenna. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0
How do you keep the bugs from building nests there? Wasp is a particular problem locally. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie --Original Message-- From: Michael Walker Sent: Tuesday,
Sorry to hear that. But to avoid confusion for the guy asking about the trees case, we should be crystal clear that houses (which are filled with metal stuff) and antennas (made of usually resonant +
Question regarding the OSL cal function on the unit. Let's say you do an OSL cal with a length of coax attached just as you would with a generic VNA. For how long is that specific OSL CAL applied? I
There is no way to supervise this behavior globally. It's ultimately up to each op to decide on what falls under ethical conduct. And opinions vary as to what is proper and what's not, even among p
Hi gary, I thought that was the rule. But I've not dug into it because I don't use the remotes. So just now I looked and you are 100% right. Here's what the ARRL web page says from Section 1... *9