It's just the beginning of the thunderstorm season here (it's late) so I needed to tilt the Inverted-L over and keep it from being a lightning rod. It was a balmy104F while I was doing this but a sma
Good question. My email client has a delete button that fixes all of these worries. Wes N7WS On 7/17/2019 8:08 AM, Doug Renwick wrote: Why do people leaving a list always have to announce it? To ma
Personally, I would and do, avoid a FCP antenna. W8JI has done some analysis on these and I value his insight. http://www.w8ji.com/fcp_folded_counterpoise_system.htm There is simply too much handwav
I guess I should have added "useful to me." At my location, I wouldn't dream of having elevated radials less than 6 feet above ground. Running them through the cactus and bushes could be just as di
It helped you know what his opinion is. Wes N7WS UNFORTUNATELY K1JT and FT 8 killed amateur radio on 6 meters. It will kill it on 160 meters,and SOON it will kill all amateur radio activity on all b
Doesn't "BOG" mean, Beverage On Ground? If so, isn't the answer, "on the ground"? Wes N7WS I am looking for any additional info that I can get to supplement what I have found online already so good
Sounds good to me. I would add that I have made some FT-8 QSOs, mostly on the day it arrived and before I grasped the implications, but also some more recently. That said, although I am uploading to
Or this one man expedition: E6ET will be active in FT8 mode focus the 20m during the day and 40/60m during the night. A 40m or 60m station will be active all night, *from 7:00 UTC (20:00 local) to 17
Perhaps more informative, read it and weep: https://clublog.org/dxreport.html Wes N7WS Are we really not utilizing our bands? You decide. W0MU _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.cont
He will probably hear as well as he's heard using QRP. I still use the TX inverted-L on receive and think that I have general parity between hearing and being heard running only 500W (7-10 dB below m
How many high-powered BC stations do you have around? Wes N7WS Because I was impatient to see what was going on, I grounded the shield to a single copper-plated ground rod and connected my MFJ259B.
You mean physically lengthen the wire. Unfortunately, the added horizontal radiation may defeat the intended purpose. Ir pays to model. Wes N7WS On 9/1/2019 12:07 PM, FZ Bruce wrote: The reason to
That's exactly what I do; shorten the radiator to create a capacitive feedpoint Z and shunt that with inductance to make a resonant impedance step-up at the desired frequency. That said, my original
Anything will resonate at some frequency. The question should be will it be a good match at the desired frequency. Wes N7WS On 9/1/2019 4:02 PM, doug dietz wrote: Guys Will a invereted L a quarter
Four 50-60 footers. See: https://www.antennasbyn6lf.com/files/antenna_ground_system_experiment_4.pdf for my rational. Wes N7WS On 9/2/2019 12:08 PM, N4ZR wrote: More as an experiment and a thought-p
Spark has been prohibited since 1934. :-) Making the spark gap is simple. What has me asking for ideas is the weather element - we have a lot of snow, ice, rain here and a spark gap needs to keep th
I'm of a like mind with FT-8 QSOs. I've broken down and make them because of a friendly club competition, and I put them on LoTW, but I don't count them for DXCC credit. (No argument with those that
I think in Frank's case the WAS 50-mile rule applies. Wes N7WS Please think again. Many topbanders use antennas and feedlines that extend beyond a 500 meter diameter circle. Please don't disparage u