Hello Guys and Gals, I have been planning on building an 80 meter 4-Square around my 117' tower. I know it will likely require detuning the tower to make it 'invisable' to the 4-square so that is pro
I finally called the Sportsmans Guid number 800-888-3006 and received a spool of the Military phone wire. It looks brand new and the price even with shipping was $28.98 which seems great to me. Plan
Hi guys and gals, I have got DX Engineering 75 ohm foam coax to make the stubs/feeders for my Comtek 80 meter 4-Square and am finding some difficulty. Neither my MFJ-259B nor my Rig Experts AA-170 se
Hi Ed, Unfortunately I don't get any indication per the Rig Experts manual with an open. The R/X just does not get any indication from 1982Khz all the way to 10,500+ KHz. On my MFJ-259B (old one) wit
I don't know what is wrong here but I keep getting in this situation where my typing starts running back over my writing. I will try again to reply. Joel, I have tried all that the manual says withou
Good point Wes. I will see if I can find a decent value of resistor. My Rig Experts AA-170 was purchased because I did not trust the readings my MFJ-259b was giving me while working on my hytower. Pr
Hi guys and gals, Well, to make a long story short my Rig Experts AA-170 has quite working. Looks normal but a 56 ohm resistor at the end of the 75 ohm coax reads infinite. On the MFJ-259b it reads 5
Hi Jeff, Same story here and that is one reason why I am so disappointed my Rig Experts AA-170 failed me. It's really a nice instrument to use in so many ways. Now I thought the explanation of doing
I did have similar issues in Keizer trying to dip anything on 160 meters. The MFJ just would not work their. Had a radio station about 1/2-3/4th mile away across the Willamette River. Found out I got
All's well that ends well I'm happy to report. K2AV, Guy suggested I check the SO-239 on the Rig Experts AA-170 and I found an open solder joint between the back of the connector and the circuit boar
Richard, You are so right about that static issue. I even seem to remember the Rig Experts manual says to short the antenna leads together to remove any static build up before connecting the analyzer
Jim, There is room that the 0.01-0.02uF cap could go in. Due to the surface mount circuitry I would want to take the wire itself to the SO-239 and install it there rather than try mounting it on the
And hopefully a little SSB if the give us alert by the cluster or their pilot ops. I for one think the west coast stands a decent change of that working optimist that I am (Hi Hi). Terry KI7M _______
Hi guys and gals, W9XT came up with a way to connect a PL-259 to a 1/2" hardline. Since I find the Comscope 1/2" hardline I got a whole 4' spool of is not even listed by comscope or any of the manufa
I see this stuff about how easy or difficult the KH1 operation was to work. I'm on the west coast in northwestern Oregon and I personally found them one of the worst operations to hear from the Pacif
Another DXpedition in the Pacific we could work on SSB but they won't take the time to work phone, ONLY CW and FT8. Whoever came up with the bright idea of no SSB? Terry KI7M _________________ Topban
Cecil was right and I missed the 'SSB' in the announcement. My bad. Terry KI7M _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Trevor, I have found that winding a coil by hand may not look too hot but for a 160 Meter Inv-L they are easy to do. I use my Hytower with it's 65' radials as the counter poise and run a 12 Gauge mul
Hi Gang, I'm going to share a link I found a few years back that just amazed me. Still does. Ever think that can't be done? Well take a look at what Roy Callison built over the years and the techniqu
Oh, of course even checking my email before sending I messed up! Let's try again. The link is www.w7yrv.blogspot.com Sorry about that. Terry _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.