I remain convinced it's the cheapest, best way to go in a lot of cases. Like everything else, individual mileage may vary. Jeff/KD4RBG -- Original message -- _________________________________________
Something we all need to know is an exact method for finding True North. Having observed several in-depth discussions on this topic, I believe that I have distilled the assembled wisdom of many emai
Does it look like this? http://www.spsu.edu/ecet/jcarter/cfp/tower/tower.htm Jeff/KD4RBG -- Original message -- _______________________________________________ _______________________________________
The subject line of this thread gave me an idea...with all the money that's being wasted on gee-whiz pseudoscience gizmos, it's time I cashed in. It's clear that we can't do anything to make the aver
Okay, you got us. You were successful in trolling the list. Past a point, however, the joke isn't funny. April Fool's was over eight days ago, and although it's clear that a lot of work went into tha
Steve, I'm going to be needing a new laptop pretty soon. Should I contact you off-list? Jeff/KD4RBG _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tow
Yep! http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html It's with a similar setup that I do *all* my CW contacts. I can copy code a lot faster than many folks who have been doing it for years with the
That's exactly right. They're essentially semiconductors, and their use as snubbers or clamps bear that out. Like all semiconductors, they're affected by heat. Since they work by converting the over-
I respectfully submit that none of that makes any sense in the context of a dummy load. A dummy load isn't resonant, it's resistive. It's a big ol' resistor mounted in some sort of heat-dispersing se
Of course. I tried to gently suggest this earlier. I'll go a step further: It's stupid to talk about resonance in a circuit that doesn't contain reactive components. j0 = j0 (or i0 for the math and p
No sir, we could most certainly *not* debate the definition of resonance. As I said before, it's long-settled and accepted science. To get back to the original topic, the answer is it depends on what
I concur with this. I've drained water out of a lot of those traps over the years, and in some cases nobody would have thought it was full of water. Jeff/KD4RBG ______________________________________
I sort of read that between the lines when they said the mom was dead at the scene. I figured, as you pointed out, that she popped like a fuse and immediately exsanguinated. Jeff/KD4RBG _____________
A balun is the preferred way to go here, I agree with Steve. If you don't have one, they are pretty easily made. Jeff/KD4RBG _______________________________________________ __________________________
Here's a good point of departure. It's got a chart of the different toroids you want for different power levels, and a really good diagram of the windings required. http://www.pd7bz.com/radioprogs/ma
This was my position, as well. You can do all sorts of things that will sort of work, or you can follow generally accepted engineering practices. As far as I know, and as I understand the original qu
I haven't ever really given it a lot of thought, but wouldn't this be an Ohm's Law problem? In other words, couldn't you use the characteristic impedance (Z0) of your antenna and then get the voltage
Shotgun. Be sure to yell "It's coming right for us" prior to discharging the shotgun for the benefit of any witnesses. Jeff/KD4RBG _______________________________________________ ____________________