This has gotten off track. The subject is not about your typical remote transceiver operation. It is about allowing people to use remote receive locations with the transmitter located some other plac
Andy, You were not confused with that thought. It was crystal clear thinking regarding what constitutes a valid two way QSO between two station locations without other communication methods involved.
Robb, I assume you do not have a 130 foot support at the edge of the cliff. Perhaps you have a loaded dipole? If you think the cliff will block your signal in the most desired directions, you will ha
Bob, There is no reason I can think of to not shunt feed the tower as it is with either ground radials or elevated radials. An inverted L isn't as good as a vertical for DX and you would just be addi
Those look identical to the ones I made for my 8m 4 Square Towers. Use G10, not just any fiberglass. The G10 rod is more like $20.00 per foot retail, unless you do a little searching. The one thing I
Wearlon Super F-1 Icephoebic paint. If you look at that website somewhere you will see a picture of a tape measure showing 2-1/8 inches of radial ice that I had on everything. Despite antennas that w
Bill, You need to shunt feed that 90 foot tower! You can decide whether you want to install an extensive radial field or whether to easily put up a few elevated radials. This is an easy project and w
Bill, You are going to like what you end up with even on some of the other bands. I would think that three 17 foot long guy wires attached to the tower would have a bad influence on the tribander. In
Conditions must be pretty good right now. I just worked them using an inverted L with no radials, 20 over line noise (in SSB filter position) and 100w. Don't give up! 73... Stan, K5GO _______________
Frank, I have a friend who has used the RF Gain control as needed, balanced antenna and accurate, equal measurement of the strength of the noise off center by an equal number of degrees CW and CCW fr
I also have AA-54 analyzers. There is no comparing the MFJ-259B to the AA-54. The rig expert unit runs circles around the MFJ in so many ways. Once you use an AA-54 I will guarantee that you will nev
I have it in mind that K5NA made a clean sweep many years ago and that was the first. I was not able to find VY1 this weekend or it would have been cool to work all 83 from the DX side. VE4GV literal
If you have ability to put up short dipole at height of 90 feet then you probably have ability to put up 80 feet vertical with about a 50 foot horizontal wire connected in center to the vertical port
Next to last paragraph is what I had focused on before sending you an email last night. Seems there it is not cut and dried solution, maybe even some black magic, as opposed to an excellent ground sy
In my opinion there wouldn't be a noticeable difference if you removed what you already have assuming you have a reasonably good radial system. Stan, K5GO _________________ Topband Reflector Archives
Trevor, I have a setup similar to what you are wanting. The vertical is something like 68 feet tall. I made a very large coil using 50 feet of 1/4 inch aluminum tubing. The coil is about 9-1/2 inches
Steve, Thanks for calling me this morning. Good signals. At one time I was interested in EME on 2 Meters. I found out that most of the QSOs were taking lace using some digital means where you didn't
Ray, I have a very similar setup here on Cayman Brac. The main difference is that my quarter wave vertical for 80 comes off my 160m vertical at about 50 feet or so and slopes down at a steeper than 4
Put a 600 ohm resistor or something close across the secondary leads where the beverage would be connected and hook up an analyzer to the primary wires and see what you read on your analyzer. Check i