Speaking of VHF contesting, and my ongoing poor results with my below-roof-mounted 2m beam at the home QTH, I figured I would ask the experts here for some advice. Operating under the knowledge that
Patrick, Assuming moving your home to higher ground location is not an option, a roof tripod will be a (relatively cheap) option and give you a reasonable improvement. A better solution would be a fi
Hi Patrick and George, George has given you a good suggestion using a house bracketed tower. Try and find a Rohn45 which is much stronger and will support a lot more without guys but of course more c
Telescoping towers have a permanent height and a temporary height. My permanent with mast is 40ft and temporarily (for contest) at 90'. A lot easier to tell them it's a 22' telescoping tower and let
Author: Rhinosix via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:14:32 -0400
Could you tell the differience between an antenna at 40 ft or at 50 ft while standing under it unless they were side by side. Not as easy as it may look. I would go with loops in the 50 ft trees. Bla
Author: mike repinski via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:06:58 -0400
Unless they knew to count the sections. --Original Message-- From: Rhinosix via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> To: Paulrollinson <Paulrollinson@sbcglobal.net>; stephen.tripp <stephen.tr
Yes, trees do make a difference on the higher bands. My qth is surrounded by 100' pines plus various lower trees. While I don't think it hurts too much on HF, cell phone service is noticeably weaker
Patrick, I want to take a moment to relate a story that might give you some ideas what to do. When I was a new ham back in the late 60s and early 70s, there was another ham in the city where I grew u
Wow, thanks for all the feedback. It sounds like the anecdotal evidence varies, so maybe I need to look up those absorption articles and spend some time to do objective calculation at my frequencies
Author: Rhinosix via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 14:33:48 -0400
We are looking into a solar min for the next 5 to 6 years so putting big bucks into a super antenna setup on six meters at this time may be disappointing. For 2 meters and 1 1/4 meters there is tropo
evidence that the solar cycle plays a big role. If you have citations that do show that connection, please share! -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! __________________________
Six Meters Propagation is NOT directly tied to sunspots except for long haul DX using F2... Often requiring the flux to reach 175/200 or better! Not a common occurrence. However... I have worked Most
Yagi, shamgi. I use my 80-40 trap dipole! :-D I did have a KB6KQ loop (and one for 2m as well - both for sale, BTW) but I found the wire was at least equivalent. Most of my 130 confirmed grids on 6 a
Although 6m is a great band, my primary interest is in 2m & 440, and really I would like to get more active on 220, 33cm (yes really), and 23cm. I only mention this because the line-of-sight, tree pe