An additional consideration relative to keeping bulb brightness low is that many of us (or am I the only one?) like to operate in low light conditions in our shack. During a contest, my cantilever d
Nat, Do you not have an ARRL Handbook for Radio Amateurs? Do you not have an ARRL Antenna Handbook? Both have sections dealing with transmission line losses in matched and mismatched lines. Also, if
Try Yahoo.com and type in "hex beam" in the search field. First hit was http://www.hexbeam.com/ 73, dale, kg5u List Sponsor: Are you thinking about installing a tower this summer? Call us for informa
I'm forwarding this message to the reflector for any possible comments, referrals, insights, for our sister radio club at NASA Glenn in Ohio. Either comment directly back to me (preferably on this su
I like Yahoo.com....I type a couple of keywords in the search field and boom: there a anywhere from zero (sometimes my keywords are not that good) to hundreds of 'hits.' Try it... use Lazy Vee Anten
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Huh??? It seems to me that if someone has spent a few/many hundred dollars on antennas and is concerned and/or worried about something that they suspect the company may or may not be 'hiding,' they
Here's yet another side: What's the likelihood of a tower getting hand-cranked down over a tower being 'powered' down when it's not in use? A hand-winched tower is probably more likely to stay up th
Lawyers aren't the problem. People are. Too damned many idiots doing too damned many stupid things that harm too damned many innocent people. duh. dale, kg5u -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/
Jan 1970 QST 44 More on Paul the Bunyan Whip (Technical Correspondence) Hubbard, Al, K0ONM Mar 1963 QST 47 Paul Bunyan Whip, The Hubbard, Alfred, K0ONM 73, dale, kg5u -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.conte
Cool set up....say...wait a minute.... What's that guy think he's doing at the lefthand operating position? He ain't making any contacts that way! 73, dale, kg5u -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting
I spoke with a woman there a couple of times (or was it two different women?). Either way, both times resulted in satisfaction. I e-mailed one of their techs (at the suggestion from one of my phone
You must mean this website, Mike :-) http://www.eng.mu.edu/~usi/ve6vk.html found on yahoo.com with the keywords "hamstick beam" 73, dale, kg5u -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/towertalk S
When faced with removing our rotator from the 80' tower at our club station, I made up three pieces of angle steel and u-bolts. Each piece was attached to a tower leg and to the mast. This fixed the
I've kept as quiet as I can stand as long as I can stand. Year's ago, I drove one ground rod in with a hammer. I swore never again. The next ground rod went in with a homebrew piledriver: a gallon p
Gawd! You don't even need to really sell things to hams....try running the hourly and door prize raffle at any hamfest or convention. You CANNOT, it is IMPOSSIBLE, to produce a set of instructions w
That's sad to hear. When I was 13 in 1959, the Radio Handbook was my first hardback technical book that was not a school book. It and the ARRL Handbook for Radio Amateurs were my favorite books. dal