This is impressive. Another gentleman on the "Gentleman's Band". :-) If everyone was as courteous as this, the bands would be much better than they are. Anyway, you may not have room for a long Bever
I certainly remember how exciting my first DX on 160 was. I was so excited that my new antennas were working that I ran upstairs whooping and hollering to my wife something about breaking the pileup
There are a couple of K9AY models (done by others, not me) at http://www.w0btu.com/files/antenna/EZNEC/ . Help yourself. :-) _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB
Boy, you said it! That is exactly how it is. How many really competent engineers, doctors, amateurs, auto mechanics, teachers, machinists, you-name-it are really good at what they do? Not that many,
So am I ! :-) I think it would be good to continue to allow discussions about it here, even though this list is really meant for 160 meters. How hard can it be to homebrew a CW transmitter for 630 wi
Try http://amfone.net. Lots of good, knowledgeable people there, and some are on 160. _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Do you have a link to the forum, Carl? It doesn't appear to be on w7ekb.com. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Is this a new Beverage antenna, and can you tell us more about it? How are you feeding and grounding it? How steep is the mountain? I've heard of some Beverages running up and/or down some pretty ste
I just bought one of these. The only instructions are on the eBay page, and they are confusing. Does anyone know how to program it? Here's the link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=n
How does the signal level from a BOG compare to the signal level from an elevated Beverage? I'm sure the output from a BOG is less. But how much less? Enough to require a remote preamp? I've always w
Thanks, Carl! Seems to me that laying on the ground, the VF would be considerably lower, and so we could shorten them. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _______________________________________________ UR RST IS
If your summer storm static "pretty much goes to almost nothing" on your Beverages, you certainly have better Beverages than I do! I have heard it said that the summer static on a BOG can be less tha
True. But I've heard that a 150' Slinky Beverage can do nearly as well as a 580' Beverage. If I didn't have 10 acres, I would either try a Slinky or a BOG. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com ____________________
People using Beverages actually would need much more than the legal limit to work everyone they hear. Think about that for awhile, too. _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... .
I made a common mode choke for a G5RV-style antenna by stacking four 2.4" OD #31 mix toroids and winding 5 turns of RG-6 through it. It goes on the coax, right near where the open wire line connects
What mix ferrite does the AES balun use? The original W2DU choke balun design uses 73 material ferrite, and that does not always work the best on 160 and 80 meters in that application. I'm not knocki
I believe that capacitor might be to help prevent a loud click in the receiver when the direction is switched. When the voltage is suddenly removed from a relay coil, there can be quite a pulse from
Yup. Built a similar circuit myself, before I was even licensed. No batteries, and a SPDT switch to select the clipping level instead of pots. I still use it whenever I put the headphones on. As a bo
You would think that would work, but it won't. I tried the same thing with power line noise back in the 80's on 144 MHz. It didn't help reduce the noise at all, because noise is not synchronous. 73,