Hi everyone, I´m thinking in update my old antenna system. I´m a proud owner of an old HyGain Explorer antenna wich has been up for almost 14 years. I´ve recently put my antenna dow
Hello Fms, I´ve been using a Hygain BN86 balun on my 105CA antenna for the last 2 years. After the third severe snow storm along this winter, this balun seems to be damaged with very high VSWR
Isn´t this guy from Bosnia????...geez, memory is fragile sometimes...Someone should tell him who was those who stop snippers in Sarajevo as an example...73 and have a pleasant sunday EC1CT Fern
Thanks for all of you who help me while I was refurbishing my Explorer 14. This morning I checked SWR with antenna heading skywards and reflector on the ground to get a perfect swr curve pretty simil
Gedas, I had a good experience with FX rotor works. Bought Mr. Pioveson a rebuilt T2X that has been working flawsely so far. It looks like new when I got it a year ago. Just type FX rotor works on a
Take a look here: http://www.qsl.net/ea5jk/a_base_basculante.htm It´s all in spanish but I guess this guy EA5JK speaks a fluent english. Perhaps he could give you some advices. He sells the who
Hi there, I think it was a month ago or so when I read some messages here from some guys whom mounted their rotors fixed at their concrete pads down in the tower base. I believe some of them sent som
Hi Joe, Try with this link: http://www.hy-gain.com/products.php?prodid=CD-45II 73s! EC1CT Fernando E-mail: ec1cwg@dxhunters.com _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscompu
Steve, I got mine set for low phone and got a flat 1:1 from 28.100 till 28.600. Then is 1.5 till 29.000. It´s 33ft high and I did install the BN86 balun. It has been up there for almost 13 year
Don´t worry about the clamps. They do their job on the 105. I haven´t lose any part of the elements yet. Even under high winds up to 90 mph. Anyway, I applied a noalox on the joints and s
I´m thinking in this to reinforce a 24ft boom on my old 105CA: - MFJ18D120 MFJ 3/32" DACRON WIRE ROPE Any other suggestion or what do you think....73s and tnx in advance! EC1CT Fernando E-mail:
Gracias, José...That´s exactly what some others have told me. Double grateful if any of you can give me a site to place my order of Phillystrand...Thanks! EC1CT Fernando E-mail: ec1cwg@d
I won´t have any interaction with antenna and that´s what I was looking for something non-conductive. I haven´t had good experiences with stainless steel cables used as guy wires lo
Hello FMs, Through many years I´ve been focusing my DX on 10-15 and 20 meters and later on 12 and 17. Yesterday morning I got a nice and happy experience contacting VP6SL on 80 meters. My anten
Hi there, I´m a proud owner of a HyGain Explorer 14 antenna. I´ve experienced some detuning on rainy days. SWR increase from 1.1 to 1.5 or even 2 in all three bands. I´ve talk with
As far as I´ve heard it´s highly recommended on Ham rotors not to take them to the end of both CCW or CW positions...Can´t tell why but I´ve heard that from experienced operat
Hello, I´m in the process of buying a new antenna, an Optibeam OB10-3W. I´ve been told that this antenna presents an impedance of 25 Ohms at the feedpoint that´s what I would need t
The manufacturer says you MUST use a 2:1 balun rated for 5 kw. Just asked because those numbers at feedpoint sounded strange for me. It´s a very popular antenna anyway. 73s and thanks for the r
This thread brings to me another question: is there any commercial motor-tunable box out there to put on a Hf2V more bandwidth on 80 meters??...73s! EC1CT Fernando E-mail: ec1cwg@dxhunters.com URE &
Hi Terry, After a long search I was able to find something similar that might help: http://home.comcast.net/~ad5x/images/Articles/Butternut60m.pdf Merry Xmas and Happy 2006 for everyone. 73s! EC1CT F