My daughter built in a gated community on a privately owned, PGA golf course... She had to be approved by the CC&R committee before she was allowed to purchase the land... The CC&R had a minimum hous
Boy am I glad I'm too poor to live in nice areas like silicon valley... Of course, being poor, I'm forced to live where you can buy all the land you can afford for $2400 an acre and the nearest neigh
I doubt that a 9:1 transformer is going to do the job... The impedence at the end of the half wave is several thousands of ohms and is highly reactive - plus lthe reactance changes rapidly as the fre
Unless you want to get the hell shocked out of you, like some dummy you know did with a balloon holding up a full 1/2 wave on 160. ** Why that is positively - or was it negatively - illuminating?? de
Brett, An old AM broadcast engineer I know is also a ham and I have chatted with him on 80 meters... He uses a 1/4 wl. vertical antenna... He has a 4 foot square (4' x 4'), 10 ga., copper plate with
You can hear all kinds of things presented as fact, even when they aren't. ** quote: "I mention this as an item of interest for those who cannot put out radials that perhaps the cost of a copper plat
JC, I have a 4el 40M beam at 150 feet... I built a PVRC swivel mount out of angle steel and steel plates, U-bolts, etc., and it works for bringing the boom/elements into the tower for work... Not per
I'm busily installing radials for 80 meter verticals... Rock hard clay soil mixed with sandy spots... I'm having to use a power edger to cut grooves and then push the radials into the cut and pound t
Jim, My feeling is that this is much ado about very little... First, a 4 degree difference in MODELED takeoff angle on 160 is meaningless...The presence of power lines, house wiring, plumbing pipes,
Having been through two lightning strikes ten years apart at two different QTH, I sympathize with you.. My experience is that the only rigs that survive are those that are on the bench with their cab
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A 70' 45G is more than adequate for your MonstIR... Assuming it is properly guyed - The biggest issue is guying... I have a 120' and a 150' of 25G that is holding up more than 25 square feet (each) f
We have beat this particular horse to insensibility in the past on this forum... As soon as I saw the first posting I knew that Tom would chime in... Let me add a factoid... Numerous times in flying
Maybe they have been stung by the dumbing down charges and this is the bid to regain status... denny _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supportin
Joe, the way I do elevated radials is to tune them slightly lower than the operating frequency... This is easily done... Put up the first two and drive them as a dipole and tune to the desired freque
I have more space for antennas than most... I am tinkering with 80 meter arrays right now... A single quarter wave vertical over 50 radials is my "0 dB" indicator, and is 600+ away from the nearest o