Hi Jos, I also have a 970. Colour & B&W reinking supplies are readily available here in NA. You get 3 bottles of coloured ink and a syringe for getting the ink into the cartridge plus instructions. I
The WA2SQR info is great. However, it seems to me that one can take this further. In the original work one is cautioned not to "bunch wind" the coax. However, if you look at the data for the 8 turns
Wow, this is fabulous. Since my return to ham radio 3 yrs ago after several decades I figured I should put some baluns on my dipoles so did a little reading and ran into something called a current ba
Hi Jerry, Here's something we at VE7VCT did on FD which may help you. Last year we put up several towers and used 4ft lengths of 1/2" rebar for guy anchors. The soil depth was about 6", after that -
If you get any private answers could you please forward them to me? I want to do the same thing above my C4SXL except its an old Hy-Gain DB62 6 & 2 m beam. Thanks 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO
Pete, I'm really intrigued by the idea of modelling terrain. Are you referring to the use of YT or something more esoteric? How did you determine the charateristics of the ground? This is an area abo
I've been having a lot of fun trying to come up with a way of deciding what band I should be on at what time in a contest. I'm sure many far more successful contesters than I do it from experience an
Wow, thanks for all the responses. Don't be too hard on me for things like saying SFI instead of SSN and suchlike. I know virtually nothing about propagation and the terms associated with it. A numbe
Hmm..... Sounds to me like you're doing work and incurring costs that should be the agent's. I believe that you should be asking them to supply you with a copy of the deed and any restrictions before
Jerry, Nothing in what I said requires the agent to know what a ham's concerns are, how to check them out or how to get the information correct. All I was requiring was that he knows enough to be abl
What follows is a response to all the posts on this topic, not just the one to which this reply is attached. C'mon guys, he's one of us. He put his story and pix up in good faith and he gets tromped
Geez Bob, I thought you knew that the owl method has long since been discredited. Current practice is to get up the tower and spray the wasps. The ones that don't die fly straight towards True North.
Tried accessing the site. No luck. http://www.logsa.army.mil/etms/online.htm appears to be a closed sites including threats of prosecution for even trying to access it. 73 de Jim Smith VE7FO To: <tow