I had a 129 foot dipole fed with CATV coax. It did ok, but where the aluminum met the copper, it oxidized and I have been suffering with AM broadcast band bleedover on all frequencies below 14 MHz. I
The tuner is the TenTec 247. The problem is everywhere on the TV. The balun is a toroid wrapped in wire inside the tuner. It is also causing noise on 2 meters occasionally. Nope! It is on all channe
The balun is built inside the tuner. I don't have resources to go buy another tuner, etc. This is the low-loss stuff. I figure it is less lossy for the higher frequencies than coax would be. Thanks B
If you are running several hundred feet, maybe you could save some loss, but if you are running RG-8U on 160 and 80 meters, I think the loss is negligible on 100 feet to a matched antenna. You might
I have never had mine so close. I have always separated mine 4-8 inches apart. At 8 inches, I can trim one antenna, reverse calculate the formula and trim the rest of the antennas by measurement acc
I have an update on the TVI problem. (a little more detail) I just checked out the TV to watch the TV. The TV changes color on each channel starting with 2, then 10,20,30,40,50,60,and 70 (the limit o
Ok, folk, here is what I did. I went outside and moved all my incoming cables to the left of my window except the Twinlead which comes in the right side. The Twinlead then goes under my table and is
Tom, I use Mason's cord from Wal-Mart. I haven't had that problem and I have lots of squirrels. I don't know why they like some and not others, but I am at least grateful that they don't like my str
Up until this year, we had quite a population of squirrel. However, now we have a number of owls that range in size from 6 inches to 2.5 feet (yes, feet!) We still have squirrels but we seem to have
Scott, I can't visualize your antenna tower with the ladder on the roof, but if you put anything on the roof, it needs to be fairly small. As you have read by now, the roof isn't designed to handle t
I'll leave out the reference to the girl as she is apparently a bright kid tutored well in electronics from an early age, not some kid who decided to read a book and take the exam. As for the genera
Nothing personal to the lawyer and his comments, but being a lawyer, he should understand the rules: FCC Part 97 .1 == The rules and regulations in this Part are designed to provide an amateur radio