I rehabbed my father's old TH3MK4, renewing the electrical contacts, replacing the traps and installing a new DXE-BAL050-H10-A balun. It worked well on all three bands for the last week and its reall
George, I guess this is a case of look first and ask questions later. The affected trap was on the driven element & was obvious from the melted plastic at the far end of the outer trap. The other tra
I have for the last 8 years had to use only vertical wires hung over trees (see in QRZ my "spud gun" that gets them up.) I have the required radial bed below but I have no options but to have my HI-Z
I have a couple domains and the commercial spam filter was snagging good emails and they were unavailable to me. Asking around I learned of spambayes, an open source spam filter you train to understa
Just got the word from the repair facility that proximity to another transmitter was the likely cause of my father's Icom receiving front end damage. That would have to have been from me transmitting
Gents, Thanks for your on & off-list replies. I was led to several good solutions and have ordered a filter for 80M. If they work for contest stations, they will certainly work here. thanks again. 73
I used to live in NE Illinois and in southern Louisiana and that's exactly how I did my long grounding rods. No stones at all to run into. Here in Connecticut it took a lot of effort to find exact pl
My two centavos, As has been mentioned, the only way people have gotten these from this list is after posting. Apparently this is a relatively new experience and I only got mine (two of them) after I
I built the pneumatic gun seen at the bottom of my Qrz page and 20 pumps from the tire pump is enough to run out to the end of the 50# Monofilament line. If I had to go over higher trees than you get
quantities, more expensive in quarts from AutoZone. It is a non-destructive rust remover and non-toxic (if anything really is non-toxic). With non acidic properties it will not etch good metal. If y
It might be splitting hairs, I'm not trying to, but I'm adverse about anything that uses acid to etch rust off and then has at the metal underneath. I'm guessing the "pho" in Ospho is regarding phosp
I ordered a LED kit from Idiom Press to replace the burned out 1819 bulb in my tailtwister controller but Idiom stuck me & kept the money, sent nothing, won't return emails and the phone isn't answer
Folks, Thank you for the replies to my question. After all the helpful replies I decided to get a bank of LEDs and manufacture my own strips and go with them. I'm still amazed Idiom took my money & h
Hi, I'm looking for surplus hardline around New England, within a driving distance from SE CT or Boston. Had a lead on some but it never came through. If you have any or know where I might look, plea
Hi, I'm looking to relocate out of Connecticut & need to find a location that is as RFI quiet as is realistic. I currently use a HI-Z Triangular for my Rx and love the advantage of steering in Rx. I
A good friend passed on some 1/2" hardline to me which reads commscope 1/2 extremeflex sfx500pe rohs n175004u81 It appears to be 50 ohm. What I need to do is get it to terminate as a PL-259 connector
Hi, A two part question for the masses... I'd like to move my HI-Z triangular to what is probably a better location than it is currently in, surrounded by trees and close to the house. I don't want t
Hi, I just obtained some Commscope FXL-780 smooth wall 7/8 hardline. No connectors came with it. I ordered some Commscope 78EZNF-N Female Connectors which are designed for this cable, but what I'm no
Hi, They look to be. The connectors haven't arrived yet, I have them coming in from fleabay but I looked on the Commscope page and this looks to be the same connector. Here's a youtube video showing
I did some spring maintenance on my antennas and need advice on how to get a 1.1 match. I have a radial plate with somewhere around 50 130' radials. I have 5 wire antennas attached to this and use an