Like George said, with something as simple as a 3el yagi you should have good results unless the band is just totally dead. Bob, KA5GLX, VUCC'd on 50MHz with nothing more than a MFJ 9606 and a KB6KQ
We've all seen those portable lighting rigs at construction sites. You know the ones with the 8-12KW generators and a crank up tower to raise the lights up to illuminate the work area. Well N1EW put
Thanks much Dave, but a number of your pages are not cross browser compliant ... I.E. ... FireFox won't display them. If you are inclined to fix them use the W3C validator http://validator.w3.org/ an
Forgive me folks I had a senior moment. I thought about it, but didn't write it, I guess I clicked send before I proofed it. Anyway I'm actually more interested in building the telescoping tower sect
These all have "issues" of some sort checked them on three different computers, three different flavors of linux and all running FireFox 3.0.8. http://home.comcast.net/~k8cc/K8CC%20Description.htm ht
Mike asks Like this ... http://www.ka5cvh.com/photos/v/Rovers/N8UM_2.jpg.html -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com Recession is when your neighbor loses their job. Depression is when you lose your
No problem and thanks to you and all the other contributors as I start to get back into roving despite my former feeble attempts. Like many I have more dreams and ideas that expendable income. -- Mik
I need a low cost (but not necessarily cheap) recommendation for a GPS / Navigation system. I am going to buy a replacement for my old Magellan 315. I know there are a few that will give you in addit
<grin> .... me thinks some people just take (or think of) themselves to darn seriously. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com http://twitter.com/KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com/political/sick.pdf There is
I know at one time a few of the armed forces HF stations stacked LPDA's but they tilted them so that they would keep the spacing somewhat linear across the frequency range. I.E. the LPDA's were much
I received a few really good comments about my question but they were all directed to me and not back to the list. The problem with that method is no one else benefited from your comments and we can'
Now that you mention it I have seen some old TVRO antennas that followed that similar design. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com http://twitter.com/KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com/political/sick.pdf Th
There are a number of "reasonable accommodation" laws which probably what was used here. I'm not sure if 45' falls under "reasonable accommodation" but its sure worth a shot. There is also the unwrit
I do not know how well these work, but I have been thinking about one for our restricted mountain cabin. I think it will work well at 2500 ft in the mountains, at least better than the loops and w
I still contend ... if it doesn't look like a CB antenna and doesn't start off at 45' he probably won't get called on it. All of the schools in our district have 4 mono-channel antennas so it wouldn
C3i was the antenna choice of K8GP group. They were sold in 2007 to Ariane Array which went belly up about a year later. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com http://twitter.com/KA5CVH http://ka5cv
Would adding a coax balun (a few turns of coax by the feedpoint) improve performance in any way? Mike asks Are you sure you are not asking about a "choke" and not a bulun? Some radio may benefit from
Thanks, Norm, KB6KQ, before he passed away had recommended the coax choke and it has served me well. -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com http://twitter.com/KA5CVH There is only one church, and on
He just may already be watching the DTV channel in as much as probably all stations are simulcasting both analog and digital. The real issue for some is are they going to remember to rescan come June
Does TE systems have a web-site. I googled it and no luck. Are they owned by someone else and have a nested page on a parents web-site? -- Mike Urich, KA5CVH http://ka5cvh.com http://twitter.com/KA5C