Hi Doug, Sorry to hear of your plight. I have a similar setup, but instead of Heliax, I am using old CATV 7/8? hardline. Home brew connectors. 165? underground run etc. It?s been my main feeder to th
I just spent the last 2 hours out in the woods during antenna season (ie: blustery wind, subzero cold, ice to slip on but no leaves on the trees) What was I doing you say? ? Repairing 26 out of my 28
Hmmm I might have to try (something like) that Kim. I did put on a little bit of black e-tape (like tiny flags) here and there on some of the more or less paths in the woods, so I (or deer coming thr
The modern electric fence don't emit RFI any longer asthey don't work with the very short pulses they used to use. Tell us how what you did that fixed it. 73 de, Hans - N2JFS Not true Hans ! I have a
My ancient A3S (which I think I may have bought from VE9HF 25 yrs ago; and it was old when I got it) keeps spinning the director. No matter how many times I tighten it - we get a good wind and there
Dave, Try putting the reflector on a small milk crate or other non conductive box, and aim the beam towards the sky. Guy with some ropes to keep it standing more or less upright, pointed up. A 40m be
Our host is being patient, as there *IS* is an RFI reflector, http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/RFI/ <http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/RFI/> however I only saw one comment that addr
Our host is being patient, as there *IS* is an RFI reflector, http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/RFI/ <http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/RFI/> ..however I only saw one comment that ad
Paul.are you kidding? Myself and K9LC offered you a solution. Did you not see that? If you can't install a simple choke you should think about turning in your ham license. ;-) (easy boys, tongue in c
http://www.arrl.org/touch-lamp google is your friend. Mike VE9AA Mike, Coreen & Corey Keswick Ridge, NB From: Mike Smith VE9AA [mailto:ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca] Sent: March 9, 2018 3:22 PM To: 'towertalk@co
I have 2 partially nested 4 squares and also a 2el array, all in a patch of uneven woods roughly 65' x 135' 2el 160m runs along West side of the rectangle. The 80m array is roughly in the center of t
I have a very old 10.5' aluminum satellite dish out in the woods. I keep thinking I should put this at the base of one of my 160m verticals, right on the edge of the woods where the trees meet the la
I spent a couple hours down in the woods today 'trying' to resurrect my 160m inverted L (not successful yet.long story) and I looked about 100' away from where I was working and saw a CAR TIRE deep i
Hey Stan, This is very interesting reading and something I have honestly never thought about whatsoever ! hmmm. I'm all about a free lunch when it comes to antennas. While I have no intention of erec
No, I was in fact referring to putting up a 5th vertical and attaching it with a short coax, to the dump port of the array, right smack in the center of the array, but I bet doing this would throw ev
Was off work today and I noticed about noontime that my 15m array is no more. Apparently the recent snow/ice/wind finally got to it. It broke in half and is laying in/on the 3'-4' or whatever of snow
Jorge: I have several 4-squares in the woods and most of them are on very sloping ground. I posted my results here a couple years ago. A quick search will find my results. Instead of following the sl
Mike, I ran a CC a50-5 for a while many years ago. It's a real dog. SWR was good I guess, but I nicknamed it the blob beam. It always felt like no matter where I aimed it, the signal levels never mov
WOW-not cool Bryan (whatever your callsign is) Bryan@bryanfields.net <mailto:Bryan%40bryanfields.net> I'd like to think that Ham Radio has enough avenues to keep most everyone happy. I've tried a goo