yeah, i got a phony e-mail from "w9zxx@juno.com" which turned out to be the klez bug. fortunately my norton caught it on download and got rid of it. Henry AA9XW
<< You can't promote or give away something that people don't want to do.73, Tom W8JI >> That's because we've done a lousy marketing job exposing people to the fun part of our hobby and everyone stil
<< Wonder if it could be partly because 60% of today's public school 8th graders can only read and do math at the 5th grade level when they enter high school. Following the K7LXC prime directive is p
Earlier this month the FCC released a NPRN for allocation of new frequency bands for amateur radio service. The proposals are to: 1) allow use of 135.7 to 137.8 kHz on a secondary basis shared with m
Fold over kit is no longer available for Rohn towers. I have been contimplating making my own. I have a 45G tiltover Rohn FOK, and want to tilt over a 70' 55G tower that will hold an IIX 18' mast, Bi
With some 30 years experience in the biz of ham radio let me add 2 ents worth. 1. Ham radio has been dying for over 30 years. Whether you believe Wayne Green is right blaming ARRL's incentive licensi
The Rohn 45 tower I put up originally with the 24 foot fold over point, and was 70 feet total, with the 8 Msquare 440 and 4 M Square 2 meter (biggest model) the M aquare elevation rotor (big wheel wi
I bought a used news ENG truck that has a WillBurt mast. They are madein Ohio. Depending on where you are, I rent my truck for RF survey work. It has full pant tilt head, electronic comcpass, mast mo
There were lots of replies. Some marked private which is OK. Some good threads came out that were not fully touched on but then, this isn't a book! kids and lids: I knoe from experience how hard it i
Back in the 60's we used a lot of B&W coil stock, usually one inside another to couple output to an antenna. Still the usual method or a tapped coil, for AM broadcast uisng a tube transmitter. Solid
QSL the social change from technology to stupidity. I have a commercial kennel business and am CE of a TV station. At both places we wonder how kids graduated high school. hey can't spell, can't read
I didn't realize that even the Scouts are :gimme the answers I don't really want to work at this. My suggestion is round them up and lock them in a ham store for a couple hours. In 10 minutes they wi
maybe some ham magazine will pick this up and print it hint hint hint: Some Ideas on Attracting New Hams Henry Ruhwiedel AA9XW and thanks to many who e-mailed comments. 5317 W 133rd Crown Point, IN 4
I made a private replay earlier. So here is a group reply. First I am NOT a PE. I simply am a broadcast engineer with over 120 stations on my built em list. Plus a few personal towers ranging from 56
It depends on your ground conductivity. Check local ordinances or electrician. usually 8 to 12 foot is enuf. If you have 16 foot rods, drive them in and make sure you have a very tight connection to
Now that the weather has gotten better I am about to dig the hole, erect the tower and put up a Mosley Pro67C (3" boom) 40-10 beam. I have 70' of 55G and a nice big yeasu rotor. Any information I sho
It only took about 2 years to get it. Its been in the boxes for another 18 months. When I first got into ham radio in the 60's I had a TA33 with the 40 meter dipole kit and it worked great. In betwee
I e-mailed and sent copies of jis web site and his 500 channel 400 watt Cb radios to ARRL, FCC and Chris Imlay. I actually got a reply from FCC, apparently they will be paying him a visit soon. :-) h
On the other hand, dBK is my favorite absolute dB. So much so, I have gone to BK (Bells above a KW) because deci is too small a meaurement increment for me. That way those antenna gain figures of 10.