Terry, I think Bill KH7XS just went through this exercise. That said, my (Comtek) 80m 4-square is made 100% from wire and hung in the woods as inverted L's. Raised radials. Seems to work. Electrons d
Hi Darrel, No, it's a mish mash of oddly shapen all wire inverted L's in the woods. The ends do not point at each other at all. Viewed from above, the entire mish mash of wires and 2 raised radials/p
If I've learned anything in my 40yrs a ham, then I know you'll get replies from all sides. I'll just advise you to build it and see. A couple years ago I asked a similar type of question about a 4Sq
Terry, I wasn't going to say anything, but now that I hear this I have to tell you all that my (wonderful!) AA-230Pro came this way to me from the factory a few yrs ago. I spent big Canadian bux on i
Jeff, Thanks for passing this on. I have forwarded your (sad) note in its entirety to the MCC fellas. Your tour of his shack and visit were nearly identical to my own, sometime in the mid to late 199
I never get on for the PRE-Stews(just the main STEW), but if you were to rename it to something honouring VE1ZZ, I would make a point to show up. (Maybe even make it into its own "real" contest, as m
p.s.- Tree, If you do make it into its own (real) contest, one thing to think about is probably NOT using "VE1ZZ" in the title. (just in the description on the website) A 2-letter call VE call like t
Excellent! Good on the Boring ARC for keeping this fine fellows spirit alive in the ether... Happy to have contributed a tiny amount to help preserve Jack's/ZZ's memory for all. Maybe when you get th
de Mike VE9AA O-M-G -,If you read my 3830 report from CQWW CW.. I thought my 160m antenna had just 'fallen down' and was still 130' or whatever feet of wire at ~12'AGL, but when I was out in the wood
Don't feel bad Herb. I'm in the same boat. I am a VE9..have been since 1993 when they split, NB, NS and VY2 into various distinct prefixes. I live in New Brunswick. (a real Province). Prefix VE9 In 9
Stan, I have very little experience with them, however given your high noise level and small(ish?) lot (not sure how large it is), would a few BOG's be a better option I wonder? Looking forward to se
".have attached 30 insulated wire radials each 42' in length (as suggested in a K9YC presentation referencing a K3LC study in the NCJ) laying on the ground roughly evenly distributed. The paper said
Hi Todd and thanks for answering so quickly. I am no expert. (I'm an Electronics Engineering Technologist and a ham for 40+ yrs,fwiw) I won't debate the exact numbers on that table by K3LC referenced
So, now we're (apparently) recommending he cut back his already minimal radial field..uhhh, really Wes? =-Mike VE9AA I started this message a day or so ago. Others have commented since with some simi
Hey Todd, What happens to your Inverted L's SWR curve if you short your other 160m antenna (the 43'-T) to ground, or otherwise detune it somehow?..could be you're onto something..not sure. Wide SWR's
de VE9AA: I was only on this weekend for abt 6 hours, so am not an authority of what happened on 160..by a long shot. I did hear EU both evenings well before SS here and was able to eek out a few wes
GE Jim, We can't possibly all remember 'who is located where' in the lower 48. For Canadians, we are locked to our call areas, so if you were to work a VE9 (for example) on 160m, you can be relativel
Bill just about summarized my feelings. I get no satisfaction from modes where I can't even hear anything in the speaker. I love that technology is marching forward, BUT I want to be there with it. I
Hey Jeff, Last 2 nights here @ my SS 2145z (and even a few minutes before ) you've been SOLID copy on 80m CW. If I'm being honest, peaks are at 519 have been seen, but -419 most times. With a couple
Jeff, You guys had a good signal on 80m y'day at NA Maritime/New England SS (your SR). LP to the SE from here. AFACT, the 80m op did not ask for NA (a shame) and continued to work EU all the way thro