Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 22:38:45 -0400
There have been quite a few posts on this subject. For those of you who do not receive the ARRL Letter... -- WHAT'S THE BUZZ? Efforts are under way in the US and Canada to identify the source of wha
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 12:56:06 -0400
I have to second that. I am putting up a Trylon 80' self-supporting tower. It is 45 inches across at the base, and will have 8-9 cubic yards of concrete with reinforcing rods in the base. The thing y
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 14:07:27 -0400
If you have only checked it with the Autek, the newly lengthened and vertical (at least 80') coax may be picking up commercial broadcast of some sort. At my place that renders such inaccurate without
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 15:36:47 -0400
I have a Gap Titan. Although I have had arcing and a carbon path form on one of the counterpoise spacers, and it certainly has the weaknesses of any vertical antenna, I have never had anything fall o
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:34:25 -0400
Yikes, see below... - - . . . . . . - - . . . . - - . . - . . 73, Guy k2av@contesting.com Apex, NC, USA 150 Meters! A wonder that his light bulbs don't stay on at night after he throws the switch off
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:07:24 -0400
The ground screen very definitely helps. Another way to help is to raise the antenna, at least 10 feet from the bottom to the ground. But unfortunately this usually starts to work against the reasons
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@contesting.com (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:52:30 -0400
What you relate are classic ground proximity symptoms. In the case of 40 meters you tuned the length of the 40 meter wire at the lower height. When you raised the capacity to ground from it changed.
The Gap uses a coax trick to simulate a center loading inductor. It has been reported that off-resonance, high power has done some arcing and melting. It has nothing to do with the tuner, except that
Comes back and says document not found. Used cut and paste to copy the document ID. Care to recheck? - - . . . . . . - - . . . . - - . . - . . 73, Guy k2av@contesting.com Apex, NC, USA Go to http://a
Got it to go. Why it doesn't return on document ID is anyone's guess. Put GROUNDING, BONDING in the subject search, and 419a will be one of the four that come up. If you use IE, right click on the PD
Sorry to take this long to write. A phone call would be a lot easier...and I could tell you some stuff I will never put to a permanent medium. I have posted this to towertalk because it seems a recur
-- HF "INTRUDER" APPARENTLY BUZZES OFF The loud 125-Hz buzz that plagued 80 and 75-meter operators for several weeks reportedly has moved outside the amateur bands. The ARRL Monitoring System had re
I note that this method is used to hold the C31XR's 15 and 20 DE's apart in the single feedline configuration. We've only had one winter with any number of these out here. Has anyone gone through sig
The new F12 "N" element for 40 meters, referred to below, is linear loaded. A few more specifics: The elements are about 85% of full size. There is less linear loading than older LL elements. The LL
Get a crane. How will you explain to your grieving family that to skimp on a few bux, you risked your life or health on a rickety tower. Treat this just like a big dead tree that is going to fall on
Just in case you weren't thinking about the effects of groundscreens/radials in earlier threads... Look between the lines in this story originally posted about a service problem with antenna manufact
Probably standing under a tree in a thunderstorm, not the best of personal hygiene strategies... --. .-.. 73, Guy Guy Olinger, K2AV k2av@contesting.com Apex, NC, USA -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contest
The new F12 40's are designed to go over or under a tribander, rather than a WARC beam. Think the new "N" elements have a secondary resonance around 18 mHz, to keep it out of the hair of 15 meters in
Did the coroner mention the absolutely horrible tactic of getting under a tree in a thunderstorm? - - . . . . . . - - . . . . - - . . - . . 73, Guy k2av@contesting.com Apex, NC, USA Sadly it is perfe
Noise, yes. Gotta give you that one, but the main reason for the 4 square was TX gain, right? You do have listening antennas for 160 and 80? So we have to worry about *loss*. Loss eats up gain from p