Yeah, I'd have to go out in the garage and turn the secondary amp down a bit. Tom W7WHY What??? Only 10.4 kW??? Dang! That rules out the CommScope cable for me, except for my mobile installation I gu
Hi Scott I used to be on charter cable here and I had all sorts of problems with TVI here in the house and with the neighbors when I ran high power. We have since switched to dish network, and my pro
Hi Bob I checked and it said according to my ISP I was in Seattle, which is about 500 miles north of here. 73 Tom W7WHY Gene, I checked my QTH and I'm not there!!! :-) The aerial scan used for my are
Hi All I'm working on the verticals here today, and was wondering, does it do any good to put a coiled coax balun on a vertical? Thanks and 73 Tom W7WHY ______________________________________________
Hi Tom I have the same type of antenna I use while camping. It is about 100 feet of wire fed with some 300 TV twinlead. It works really well, but one thing, you do need to have a good ground. I have
He's still around. I saw a 160 meter spot from him the other night. 73 Tom W7WHY BTW Where is Tom now days? Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member) N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2 www
-- Or--if a man speaks in the forest and there is not a woman to hear him, is he still wrong??? 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ __________________________________________
Hi Rob One thing that always makes me cringe is to buy a 100 foot chunk of good coax, then start cutting it up in small chunks :-) Makes me feel like I am ruining it. 73 Tom W7WHY ___________________
Hi Gregg You might try using an inverted V in the center with a director on each end. It would work in 2 directions that way. Or maybe a reflector in the center and an inverted V on each end. That wo
I had a good friend who did that, but he tied ALL his window frames together. He was in an apartment which had some metal framed windows, and he just loaded them up as a long-wire type antenna. He us
Howdy all I am setting up for the CQWW and was wondering something about my stubs. When setting them up, do they have to be separated to work better, or can you just put all the stubs next to each ot
Hi all Is there a way to put a decoupling stub on top of my 20 meter vertical to make it work on 15? Would I just put, like a 5 foot section shorted at the top, and open at the bottom, spaced a coupl
Hi Robert A trick I learned years ago is to take a pair of vice grips and grip a screwdriver in the outer end of the tube, with the handle towards the boom, Then hit the screwdriver with a hammer. Th
HI All I just put up some more antennas (you can never have too many). Can I use the same ground radial system for 2 verticals? I want to tie off an inverted 'L' for 160 and an 80 meter vertical at t
Interesting. Recently I tried to shorten my 80 meter dipole by wrapping the end . It is bare wire, and when I calculated how much I'd have to wrap, it actually moved it up a lot farther than I antici
Naw, can't do that. The environatzi's stopped that out here in Oregon and put about 50,000 guys out of work. Then they found out that there were actually a lot more spotted owls than they first thoug
HI All I have an 80 meter dipole and I am now having some problems with AM broadcast interference. Funny thing is, I also have an 80 meter vertical and I don't hear a peep of interference on that ant
Just discovered that when I switch the antenna tuner in, the interference goes away. H'mmmm Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ T
Hi Dave I actually made 2 posts, but didn't see the first one here. The first post said that I am having problems with AM broadcast interference with my 80 meter dipole that was never there before. I
Hi JIm There is 1 on 1240 and 1 on 1340. I am about 1 mile from the one on 1240 and about 5 miles from 1340. I still think it is something in my antenna somewhere because it is nil on the vertical. 7