A trick I use with My Icom 756 is to listen on both recievers in the "dual watch" mode and mix them with about a 70 Hz difference for the two recieved signal. I then have a 2 tone CW signal which is
I have to disagree with some of what has been said about how much power to run using JT65. JT65 is a LOW SIGNAL mode, NOT a LOW POWER mode. We run 1500 watts into 20+ dB gain antennas on 2 meters for
I keep reading about all the WSPR and other low power modes where one person was heard all around the world. Well, maybe on a given night that can happen. -23 on JT65 is 10 dB below the threshold whe
I guess it depends on what you want to do on 160. Rag chew with the locals -- put up an NVIS low dipole Work the rare DX -- put up a 4 square of 1/4 wave verticals with 32 to 120 radials under each o
Trevor, as well as the link from Chavdar, you might look at this You Tube video I made on detuning the TX antenna for reducing RX noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38G-awzhQH0&t=13s 73, PeteR N8
Why not try a Half Sloper. Your tall crank up would work well with that... Take Coax up inside the tower and then run the braid to ground at the top of the tower and a 1/4 wave wire +/- off to one si
Just remember that the highest voltages are at the ends of the top hat wires. Insulate accordingly ;-) PeteR N8PR Bruce, I used to resonate my tower on 80m with 22 ga wire in two directions. Never a
John (and others) I would not like to see the below suggestion carried out for the following reason: There have been times that I have used a WebSDR receiver in Europe to help me decide where to tran
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with working the same station on the same band more than once. We used to do it all the time to assure we had "insurance" contacts with someone we needed for DXC
This is just the same type of comment that was made back when SSB took over for AM Phone operations. SSB was considered Not Real Ham Radio and now is not even a pause in anyones mind about it being a
Terry, You might consider four half wave sloping dipoles with the upper end hung out about 3 4 feet from the top of the tower. I used this arrangement with four Current baluns at the dipole center an
Joe, You might consider that there is interaction of the Waller Flag and the other two towers as well as your transmit antenna while on receive. I suggest that you detune both of the other towers, as