If you love 2nd harmonics be sure to feed them with coax and run your rig right into the feedline. 73 Rob K5UJ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________
Put your GOOD rig and amp on 3595 and put 1500 w. CW into your coax to your fan dipole and have a listen to what comes out on 7190. Have a ham listen a couple miles away. Who told you it was a good
That's all wonderful but crusades with hams are usually counter productive. I submit that a detectable 2nd harmonic qualifies as a real problem especially if it is out of a ham band. 73 Rob K5UJ ___
I use a pair of Tesso 50 footers at my station along with a tree and a 50 foot aluminum tube guyed at 33'. I have a 1/2 wave dipole for 80 m. fed with ladder line, a second 1/2 w. dipole for 20 m. fe
Those are probably what I got and not H50s. they may very well be higher quality. I paid $90 each for mine. What happened to the old ones? Rust? I hope they did not get banged up in shipment. Sometim
Flash: HR-4969 Requires FCC to Apply PRB-1 to HOAs: http://www.arrl.org/news/house-bill-would-require-fcc-to-extend-prb-1-coverage-to-restrictive-covenants 73 Rob K5UJ _______________________________
You can go to all the trouble of putting down "mesh" and risk having to do it all over again since that is a material and product not intended to be in contact with the ground. Or you can spend the
Nonsense. It's not an "urban myth" at all. I have a friend on 75 m. who's only antenna is a vertical, base fed over a ground system, and he's around 60 miles away from me and is usually at the noise
You guys sure know how to take the fun out of something. What ever happened to the time honored method of going out to the feedpoint with a SWR analyzer, plastic cutting board, fist full of clip lead
And kneeling in the snow Rob K5UJ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesti
Uh, maybe this SELLER wants to sell you TWICE as much coax? 10-4? 73 Rob K5UJ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list T
I'm calling laughable BS on this. I've used THHN, AWG 12 stranded, AWG 14 stranded and solid with the insulation on, AWG 16 for radials, feedlines, dipoles....for years, never had any problem whatso
I wouldn't call it "some kind of stake" as much as simple doubt because what you assert is, to be charitable, unsupported by observation. How long is "a long time?" Rob K5UJ ________________________
No. By the way I gave you a pass on your snake oil FCP nonsense too but now I'm expecting you to try telling folks that the plastic on the wire _holds the RF in._ And I bet some will believe you. In
I wish to apologize for the caustic tone of my post this morning in which I questioned Guy's statements regarding degradation of RF current conductivity in THHN insulated copper wire over time in UV
It's hardly a scientific rigorous investigation but I thought I'd mention that a few nights ago after I got home from work, I went into my garage and rummaged around and found a bundle of old no. 14
The path between earth and radials is capacitive. The wire can have enamel or even insulation and still work fine. They don't need to be buried but they usually are. The reason is protection from da
I advise also posting your question to the topband reflector. It's important to mention frequencies these antennas are used for. I have a pair of RF-Pro-1B loop antennas. I use them primarily on 160
<<<Although you might be able to find issues with RFI ahead of time and by all means I'd do it - I can say here at my location I didn't find anything that was overly alarming from the ground. Other t
If the ham tower is on a large open area of land or there is a fence around either the entire property, or guy anchors and the tower base, you probably won't see anti-climb panels. You probably won'