Hello, Does anyone know what toroid cores are used in the W9INN balun sold as model MFJ-912? Thanks, Garry - WR4R _______________________________________________ _____________________________________
Hello, Has anyone had any experience building a wire version of the W8JK antenna? I am interested in building a version to cover 40 -10 meters as described on W4RNL's website using two 44' radiators
I am putting up two 50' wooden poles with a 21' section of 2" galvanized water pipe thru bolted to each pole to support a 135' long dipole. The galvanized pipe is new and I want to coat it to make su
Has anyone had any experience with the Expanded Lazy-H antenna? This one is cut to dipole length of 1.25wl and element spacing of .625wl at highest freq. If I have already asked this previously, plea
I'm waiting for the ground to dry out so I can get a bucket truck in my yard to trim some limbs and throw some rope over other limbs. When I can get this done, I will try a W8JK or Lazy-H. I have sur
This may have been discussed previously and if so I apologize for waisting space. I recently purchased a bag of 10 PL-259's from BuxComm. These are silver/teflon with a gold center pin. I have been o
I have a 135' center fed dipole up at 50 feet strung between two trees in the clear fed with 108' of 450 ladder line. I am using a Palstar BT1500 balanced-L design antenna tuner. I also have an MFJ-8
I am looking for the screw assembly that holds the front and back of a D-104 mic head together. There are 4 screws and threaded barrels with screw heads. Does anyone know of a source? I realize this
Hello, Does anyone have any suggestions of what to use to mount a beam on a wooden pole where you can raise and lower the antenna? I saw something years ago which was some type of rail arrangement on
Hi Paul, I remember the Telrex Monobanders used a T-Match as stated by N8DE. I have an old Telrex catalog and it shows the use of a 1/2 wave coax balun at the feedpoint. You must have the "Monarch" m
Hi Carl, I was reading comments on this topic with great interest. I also have Jim Lawson's book but was not aware of any suppliments. Is there a way to find these on the web? Using Jim's design, I b
I agree 100%! I have emailed him several times on different aspects of antennas and tuners. I have always received a courteous reply by the next day. Garry -WR4R Message: 6 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:
Does anyone have any solid fiberglass rod in lengths of around 6 inches in diameters of 1" and 7/8"? I need these for use in a split driven element with a hairpin match. I know some vendors have it b
Has anyone had any experience feeding a Quad with a Tri-Gamma match system using a single feedline? HyGain used it I think when they offered a triband Quad. Thanks & 73, Garry - WR4R ________________
I have built several 3 element beams where I have used a gamma match as well as the hairpin match. I have built the gamma match using two pieces of tubing, one 3/4" and the other 1/2" with a piece of
Hello, Does anyone know where one can obtain YO Optimizer by K6STI or know of any other software capable of giving dimensions for a Tee match without using capacitors for a Yagi antenna? Thanks & 73,
I was wondering if there's another Dow product under the same name specifically made for RF connections? Tony -K2MO Hi Tony, I remember seeing what I think you are looking for at "*http://radioworks.
Has anyone had any experience using YagiCad 5.2 antenna software using tapered elements? Thanks, Garry - WR4R _______________________________________________ _________________________________________
Hi Bob, Shortly after I heard this I received an email from another reflector by someone who said he had mirrored LB's site. I'm trying to find the message where the new address was given but haven't
I am interested in building an OWA yagi. Do I understand it's construction correctly where you would take a 4-element beam for example, modeled by any of the modeling programs in common use, then mov