To answer Mr Pringle, My name is Paul, not Poster I had a number of technical points referenced in my write up on eham- Look at eham.net under antenna switches product reviews where you find "the res
I spoke to the MFJ HyGain people today and was told that they now have a large stock of replacement parts available for the HyGain Discoverer 7-2. Prices seemed reasonable and everything I needed, li
I need to check my feedlines for volocity factors on both the 40 and 80 meter 4SQR's.............has any one tested the acuracy of the 259B in using it on "75" ohm RG11 coax which should have around
After originally being somewaht satisfied with my K8UR style 40 meter 1/2 dipole 4SQR, I was becoming disillusioned and having trouble..the F/B seemed inconsistent and gain was not much over my Butte
Yuri, I have just completed a revised version of a 40 meter 1/2 wave dipole 4SQR. I also expereinced a few problems with the dipole array, but none were related the Comtek Hybred Coupler. I instead f
Narrowing it down to two tribanders for a few more mults, I'm still tossing a coin on which antenna to get....Shopping around, I'm finding about a $300 difference in price with the Force 12 being mor
Interesting to see how others are using their arrays. I never thought of putting up an array for just a receive system, but what a great idea I have a lot of respect for hams who put in the time to p
I use jumpers from my IC756 to my Ameritron AL800 amp. Occassionally, I notice that certain bands, mostly the low bands, become effected with signal attentuation coming into the rig. The coax checks
After getting the itch to look into the bigger booms, and talking to a lot of experts, I'm instead going add 20 feet to the tower and stack a couple of Tennadyne T6's to improve my station. I'll give
After building three different 1/4 wave top loaded vertical arrays for 80 meters, I'd like to pass on some quick trivia from my experiences to others considering such a project: First, for quick refe
Put the beer down Nat................... 73 Paul N0AH -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/towertalk Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertalk-REQUEST@contestin
Does anyone have experience with a M2 2 element 40 meter beam or any other 2 element 40 meter beam that they feel has worked well for them- in the market but finding reviews hard to come by..........
Forgot to include this in my question about 2 element 40 meter beams.........does any one have an opinion of performance on the Hy-gain linear loaded 40 meter 2 element Discovery 7-2.............are
My fellow hams Guess what- the demise of the 80 meter buzzsaw has been anything but a demise For weeks now, I have copied this signal from here in SE Wyoming beginning in the morning at around 13:02Z
the 10 over nine noise continues........every morning, at exactly 1300Z, the buzzsaw noise, or a plane propellar type noise, covers the entire ssb window......it peaks at 3.795. It is a series of pul
Pardon me I guess since I'm the one making testimonials about the actual test results I experienced using my Tennadyne T6 vs. my tribander- I need to point a fact to all those who use a computer mode
Huummmmmm...just read a T6 won't copete in a contest- Har! With my Tennadyne T-6, at 55 feet, N2IC just set a WY cw sprint record and I scored well enough in the 1998 ARRLSSSSB test low power catagor
Please, the Gap gets all this guff yet, in reality, there is only one company, over the years, who makes the worse of the worse, who deserves the criticism, and above all, is the definition of "trash
Wow, I just got politely slammed for a product reivew I did on eham on an antenna switch....in which I was indirectly called uneducated and ill-informed- about my antenna review??? Huh?????? zzzzzzzz
the noise is still generated while the unit sits on the bench I replaced the coax going from the RCS inside unit to the outside control box with a short piece of coax with the RCS 4 outdoor relay box