Now that I've relocated to semi-rural western North Carolina, I'm doing some planning for the new antenna system. I already have a US Towers TX-455 that will be going up soon, but I'd really like to
That's on my (rapidly growing) PITA/Problem list! 73... Randy, W8FN On 8/18/2020 10:07 PM, dt wrote: My world is not deep woods, but lots of big trees on country property, and every few years the 80'
Thanks for the advice, Jim. Since I no longer climb (neither the XYL or I want me to now and most likely won't be able to later) I really want to go with a tower that allows me to maintain the antenn
I quite agree on the skills and professionalism of the ham tower specialists. As a matter of fact, I'm working with my old Ohio buddy Don, K4ZA, who now lives and works out of Charlotte, on my TX-455
Wilson, what you say pretty much sums up the way I'm currently thinking. I ain't moving again, that's for sure. When I go out of this house, it will be toes first, or at worst in a wheelchair. I'm le
I'm trying to find a way to import the *.13 gain data produced by HFTASweep into Excel so I can display it as a polar plot for various elevation angle cuts. I'm definitely no Excel guru, and haven't
Thanks to those who replied on and off list. It's just a "simple" matter of importing the *.13 text data (which turns out to be organized in fixed width fields) into Excel using the Data Import funct
Thanks for the tip, Dan. Unfortunately, I can't get the HFANT utility to accept the data from the HFTASweep files. I get either complaints about improper antenna name format or invalid character in f
I re-ran the sweeps again and this time the new data files work fine with HFANT. Gawd, I love computers! 73... Randy, W8FN On 10/4/2020 10:42 AM, Randy Farmer wrote: Thanks for the tip, Dan. Unfortun
The Wireman business is still up and running. In July I made a trip the 25 or so miles from my home to pick up some supplies from them. They're running the operation out of a modestly sized building
I've had very good results using a pair of the Unified Microsystems BevFlex-4X reversible beverages. Mine are installed in a heavily wooded area. They're made from standard RG6Q coax and thus are muc
I'm using some of the KBS products to clean and seal rust on a tower I'm going to put up soon. They have a wide variety of products, some of which are designed for automotive uses such as frame rail
Sounds like they're specifying gain relative to isotropic, hence an extra 2.1 dB. 73... Randy, W8FN John KK9A His 16 element 20/15/10 tribander looks like an almost complete copy of my Optibeam OB16-
Strange. I've got loads of them in many places in my station antenna switching and have never had a problem. Since I recently acquired a new NanoVNA-F and have three spare Top Ten A/B selectors, I de
Yikes! And also very wrong. I moved the decimal point! Make that -0.16 dB and -0.35 dB. Sorry about that. 73... Randy, W8FN On 2/6/2022 1:08 PM, Lux, Jim wrote: On 2/6/22 9:27 AM, Randy Farmer wrote:
Oh, yeah. Wouldn't use it for anything with that kind of loss. 73... Randy, W8FN That makes a whole lot more sense. 1.6 dB (~20%) loss on 160m would be enormous <grin> ______________________________