If you want that you can look at the Waller versions which stack two antennas. N4IS is the guru. But everyone is describing a very small version of the terminated loops here. 2 by 2 meters is crazy s
Agreed fully. But the very low output antennas usually go hand in hand with small suburban or non rural environs and thus very noisy. To achieve a useful sn ratio with all the noise and low output is
I agree with that completely. Operated a lot of QRP from west coast and the QRP suffix def generated interest. In addition on 160 especially its good to know that info - sort of like a beacon type of
I have two Flags less than 100 ft from 75 ft high 69kv lines. They are thankfully quiet except for one single insulator bank 1/2 mile away but I can totally null it with the MFJ1025 and a sense anten
Corona noise is near impossible to null even from a single source I've found. Fortunately my offender is spark gap noise causing a specific multi point waveform signature. As I understand it however
Or discussing DX conditions. Location would be very useful. Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
I use a MFJ 1025 with excellent results BUT only on single point noise where the sense antenna can be fairly near your main receive antenna. It's not a simple process to get things right and sometime
I have used one which the ARRL RF lab brought down here to address a very serious problem. We were able to identify the BOLT on the insulators where arcing was coming from, photograph it, attach both
In this case they had all the gear but still claimed they couldn't find the noise. Both me and Ed Hare and Mike Gruber from ARRL offered to come out with them but they always found a reason not to an
I'm not sure this would be useful as it seems not to be very directionally sharp. The ultrasonic device would be the last step in positively identifying the source of the arcing so it necessarily mea
Herb. I have a 1025 without internal preamp and can notice an increase in noise level when it's on with no antennas connected but not s1 level. Doesn't register on s meters but is audible. Now I have
Be careful as some foreign QSL's are bigger than "normal" and won't fit into the standard jackets. And if collect old QSL's most are larger. I use William J. Plumm who also sells DX qsl supplies but
Im always temped to post the calls of the (many) pile up lids on the cluster and have seen people do it only to incite a flame contest. I also think fat headed lids are so dense it wouldn't change th
But as someone else mentioned, if a station has a signal problem, and despite how beloved some of our colleagues are I have heard nasty stuff a number of times, there is nothing wrong mentioning it a
My first QSL was from the FCC. After two weeks of calling CQ on 40 with a bread boarded 6aq5 rig to no avail, FCC sent a postcard asking why as a Novice I was 20. I wound tank coil wrong and second h
RST system problem is so many don't understand what any report is other than 599 because that's all they can copy. Ever try sending a C for chirp, or anything less than 9 for T? And ample reason for
New antenna models arenas ideas for them are one thing, but new laws of physics? It's great to experiment but you can only work around the fundementals. Discovering new principals is always in play,
Amazing. Nano antennas aren't new but this guy presents them in an odd way, as if they form a mystical improvement to normal antennas. His starting comments are telling regarding the implied lossy na
Some packet clusters also have LOTW indicators for stations registered with ARRL. When i first sent in my log of 2?years of QSo's I got 102 confirmed in seconds. It is not at all complicated and some
Moving it to a new PC or a second one is no simple but again with a little bit of reading isnt bad at all. Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QS