Moxon in his excellent book, HF Antennas for all locations, talks extensively about antennas over sloping ground. Sadly, years ago I attempted to visit with him through the RSGB but he was too late i
A Chem E relative of mine who worked in the Pacific NW in a plant where they made Vanillin out of some tree byproduct related that they cooked the stuff in big vats before processing. Had for a long
We've all been blessed by fellow Hams who took their time and perhaps advantage of their job duties to bring us all sorts of goodies. CQ Magazine for years had a propagation column that none of us co
Waaay back in the early 50s when I was just getting started there was a Ham in central Kansas whose job was keeping oil wells pumping. He and his wife lived in a very small house right in the middle
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I've had a Yaesu 2800 up for a long time. Not pinned. Guess I ignored the advice way back not to tighten too tightly. Vertical half of the mount split. Tower free wheeled. All cables pulled apart. Ha
In my early days (late 50s) a friendly electric co-op guy gave me a 5 gallon bucket of transformer oil with the "good stuff" in it. (PCB) I put a gallon in a cantenna and left the rest in the old bar
So, neglecting the I/R loss issue.....how does he match for the 26 ohm coax he has created? N0UU _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerT
OK, not for saving loss, but matching: I put up a low inv-V for 80M. Impedance was about 25 ohms. Rather than take a tuner out to the antenna or run double coax all the way to the shack I did this: A
Worse. I bought some cheap jumper cables to use for some jumpers on a CNC table I'm building. The braided wire looks to be aluminum with a plating of copper. Still works, but not what I counted on. A
Gee guys, I've a 60 pound roll of #16 ga enameled wire sitting in the basement. Got it from a motor rewinding business that went broke. Now I'm afraid to bury it because it is safer in the basement.
Maybe not a good idea. The steel will embed in the softer copper and then you have two dissimilar metals in the open weather. BTW: You can take a super magnet and after carefully blendering Total cer
Scraping the enamel off was intended to be a joke. Sorry. Oh yes, some antenna books for years said that you should pour copper sullfate around your ground rod to improve the ground. Presumably they
I've had a Titanex V160HD for quite a while and want to put it up for a couple of contests this month. It's listed as self supporting, but doubt that. Instructions were at best minimal. I need to put
The LP antennas do what they are meant to do: cover all frequencies in their range. Maybe we don't need that and should pin point the maximum whatever. The SteppIR is a really good choice...and maybe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRvRnblfrN0 Sorry, a couple of months old, but...... N0UU _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mai
Russian vacuum and ceramic caps are often found on ebay. Made for combat conditions. N0UU _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mai
Check out the new SteppIR WEB page. New controller with relays on output to protect the thing...finally. Discussion of new management. N0UU _______________________________________________ ___________
In the 50s I had a 900 ft long wire on the farm tied to the silo. #18 ga copper weld fence wire. Up about 2 years until We had an ice storm. I was in college and Dad wasnt happy picking up wire all o
Strange, that happened to me in the CQWW into the SteppIR. Cut the power a bit and it went away. Thought maybe I wasn't right on with the antenna. Some ageing problem? N0UU __________________________