Where do you get the 35'? Wes N7WS SWR is all you need to tune the antenna. Is minimum SWR at 1977 kHz? I would add more wire and tune the length for minimum SWR at your frequency of interest. While
Pete, I was going to suggest possible interference to your measurement by a local BC station. I have a couple of very strong stations near me, one on 1550 kHz running 50KW. They are about -3 dBm on
Agreed. Trying to run something this complicated with three push buttons is a nightmare. Every time I use it I have to read the manual for 30 minutes. But I'm not too pleased with the RigExpert UI
If both are brought to resonance with top loading, there will be a null overhead with the hat and some high angle radiation with the L. The L will actually have a bit of directivity (~2 dB) in the di
My last 1,000 were from http://qslpostcards.com/ I did my own design and John worked extensively with me to get them "just right." I have full color photos on both sides of the card. The opening pho
Ray, If static discharge is really all you're after, then a high value resistor is all you need. Until I changed my feed method to something that was a DC short on my 160 inverted-L, I used a 10K 10
Not quite true. Chak has uploaded some logs to LoTW and some to ClubLog, although he doesn't use OQRS. LoTW: Last upload for *JT1CO*: 2019-04-16 07:38:53Z ClubLog: 58,892 QSOs logged between 1998-0
I worked them last night @0422. Pretty amazing operators. They were readable about an hour earlier but lots of QRM so I gave up. When I came back they were a bit stronger with some fades and I coul
Isn't there always? Wes N7WS On 11/8/2021 4:24 PM, Gary K9GS wrote: I think there was some alcohol involved. _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Refle
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/QST/This%20Month%20in%20QST/2021/11%20November%202021/Silver%20Donovan.pdf From here: http://w8ji.com/polarization_and_diversity.htm Under Best diversity receive antenn
From the peanut whistle on the west side of the country just three of the usual suspects, JA3YBK, RM0F and HL5IVL on Saturday, somewhat after local sunrise. I totally slept in on Sunday. Nighttime
And if these are "illegal" contacts - what should be done about them? operating in a USA authorized band it shouldn't be up to me to verify the legality of the other guy's operation. That's between
I recall a discussion on here some years ago which proposed that, whilst being an amazing antenna for top band, if you could achieve it, the broadcast model was not necessarily the best use of resour
I'll second Rick's approach, although I've not incorporated it yet. I built a parallel wire transformer per Sevick Fig 6-11. It measures just fine. Until it's installed I'm using an inverted-L wit
On 1/18/2022 10:30 AM, David Harmon wrote: .... even though I have a TS-890 I have not tried the preamp with the DXE amp shutoff. Why not? It's a button push. Wes N7WS _________________ Searchable
Very interesting Andy. Please a little more information about the LOG. Is it 30m on each side, or 30m total length? Wes N7WS On 1/17/2022 10:16 PM, Andree DL8LAS via Topband wrote: Hey gentlemen,t
I worked you before and during the contest. You were 5NN :-) Don't ask what you really were, but I have a really modest station, so you were doing something right. TS-890, KPA500 and an inverted-L,
But it's illegal in the United States. And there is a reason it's called dope. Ask Jere Melo, former mayor of Ft. Bragg, CA, what he thinks of the victimless crime of outdoor cultivation of marijuana
Not specifically but last year's results might give a clue. *https://contests.arrl.org/scores.php *Wes N7WS* * On 3/3/2022 2:29 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: I'm sitting at about 95 confirmed or pendin
Lots of QRN and few signals Worked C6ANM, PJ2T, NP2J, ZF5T and JA7YBK. I just did S&P. Ten meters was hopping; at once I was working the Caribbean, SA, JA, VK and ZL. Fifteen was the same at times;