My goodness, what a wonderful question! I have a card from an old QSO back in 1956 where I made a QSO across town on 3825 with a modified ARC5. That was before LOTW and computers. Would this card suf
I used to have the smaller 29-footer that you have and it worked real good. The agony you would go through to try to expand the antenna would not be worth the trouble, the time, or the money. Put it
I hereby nominate Ward Silver to be the official "graphic artist" for Tower Talk. -- Wes Attaway (N5WA) -- 1138 Waters Edge Circle, Shreveport, LA 71106 318-797-4972 (Office) - 318-393-3289 (Cell) Co
I would start just the way you did, by asking the TowerTalk group. You could also put out a message on the TopBand group. I would also call Tom, W8JI, who designed the DXE antenna, and talk to him. T
I would do one of the following: 1. Move over 10' or so and dig a new hole. If you have the room you could end up with two bases and two towers. 2. Dig out all around the existing base and remove it.
It looks like I responded to the wrong message in my previous post. I would do one of the following: 1. Move over 10' or so and dig a new hole. If you have the room you could end up with two bases an
For what it's worth, I also put up a Carolina Windom when I moved into a new house a few years ago. It was intended to be a temporary antenna. I threw it up along with a Radio Works 40M "Super Loop".
Take the reflector/director down (remove it) and see what happens. -- Wes Attaway (N5WA) -- 1138 Waters Edge Circle, Shreveport, LA 71106 318-797-4972 (Office) - 318-393-3289 (Cell) Computer Consulti
You should stick a bar, pipe, or 2x4 thru the tower and under the bottom of each section that you will be climbing on. -- Wes Attaway (N5WA) -- 1138 Waters Edge Circle, Shreveport, LA 71106 318-797-4
The rental is for access to a station. The renter would have to be properly licensed to operate said station. This is exactly the same as renting a house that has ham radio gear and antennas located
I don't think you are making a contact over the Internet. You are getting access to a station via the Internet but the contact is made via a transceiver and antenna. Everything about the QSO is the s
I had an ES-Way tower about 50-years ago and I remember (barely) the "pack in sand" option. I think the "bury in sand" concept would work if you could dig the appropriate sized hole in real soil and
Why not use EZNEC or similar program to model the dipole at 8' straight across and then at the 65'apex with whatever the height of the ends are? This should give you a good idea of what to expect. Yo
I do the following 1. Bring the end of the copper strap around the ground rod so that you have about 6" or so of overlap at the end; 2. Drill a 3/8' hole thru both pieces of the strap about 1/2' or s
I would say that you have been lucky. If you are 95-years old maybe your lightning-strike luck will hold for the duration. If you are 35-years old then I don't think you should continue to roll the d
What I don't understand is why contesting.com can't get on the "approved list" for the yahoo.com mail servers. It seems to me that this problem could be resolved by old fashioned phone call, or maybe
I agree with Bill. Bury-Flex is advertised as being suitable for direct burial. I have 4 runs of over 100' that have been in the ground for 9 years, with no apparent ill effects. On the other hand, L
That sounds like the solution. -- Wes Attaway (N5WA) -- 1138 Waters Edge Circle, Shreveport, LA 71106 -- 318-393-3289 (Cell) -- Computer Consulting and Forensics -- EnCase Certified Examiner -- I did
It looks like you have a lot of loss somewhere in the system, unless you have a really long coax run. If the run is only 100' or 150' then I don't think you would see such a flat SWR curve unless eit
The RG400 and RG214 are both 50-ohms. RG214 has lower loss. I doubt that 12-ft of RG400 would make any measurable difference. If you are going to blame the 12-ft of RG400 every time you miss a statio