Aloha again from Kauai, Thank you to the many of you who responded with a wealth of info and insight into my questions about current baluns. The summry statement might be that the prime purpose of th
Aloha again from Kauai, Thanks to the many owners of the Matchbox's who responded with information. In summary: Now, what have I bought?? 1. It has both balanced and unbalance output terminals; is ra
Certainly, it must be, I hope; have not seen it yet. It is to be shipped from Florida. The estimated shipping weight, for which I am paying, is 60 pounds. That had better be the one about the size of
It is certainly important to be able to get behind the rig, operating position, etc. I am always needing to get back there for one reason or another: change a computer com port connection; modify the
What happend's when I put two antenna tuners in series? The first is Paul Shrader's Classic Low Bander which has no trouble tuning anything to 160 meters, single ended; and this followed by the Johns
Hope you find this as interesting as I did; catching up on some reading put off for a V-beam project. Seems as if this issue fits in with towertalk. "The Department of Energy is pulling out of resear
Buy some hunting arrows and a gadget which attaches to your bow called a "Game Tracker". I learned of this gadget in, I think it was February CQ; an article about getting wires up and around the tree
Hi all, I just had to respond to this rec.radio.amateur.policy posting. Decided to share my response with you, hope you agree with my points. Some of those marshalling against our hobby are getting o
Contemplating putting up three of these; with four wires out, it would appear I could get 3 V-beams covering a lot of azimuth, or nearly the entire compass as a V-beam is bidirectional (no F/B advant
Nope! Order and READ Walt Maxwell's book "Reflections" from the ARRL. You will at last understand what is going on! Again, nope! Read the book above, and forget most of what might be sent to you on h
Aloha, OK, I have not been able to figure out a switching set up to feed one ladder line to three V-beams. But, en-vision only four wires, which could form three V-bemas, sharing the center two wires
Rcv'd some excellent encouragement from W4RNL and N4KG, re the double, 4-wire V beam idea. LB, W4RNL ran a model through EZNEC-4 (W7EL's version of NEC-4). His data is very nice, but, as did N4KG, he
Aloha again, Actually, I goofed. N4KG pointed out that all desired could be achieved using only two SPDT relays. Only set up not possible this way would be the 1-2 together, and 3-4 together resultin
Eliminate them! Use twin lead to all your antennas. Works just GREAT. Read some of Jim Maxwell's stuff. The ARRL has made a great error in dropping his material in favor of Warlter Bruen's. You do no
For years Telex has made field strength measurments of their own (and now Hy-gain) antennas. One of particular interest to this discussion is the Hy-Tower: 50+ foot tall, 1/4 high or odd multiple the
Aloha to All, I was asked this question this morning; in responding, a possible affirmative answer to the question of use of crank up towers occured; also, perhaps the usefulness of an amateur radio
In response to my post on crackups/storms, someone asked about my Honda. Lost the note to too rapid a delete key! Anyway, for powering your home and a barefoot rig, a 5 kW Honda is great. Also runs a
Ok, it is decision time! To splurge for the 5/8th wave(40m) tall Titanex vertical or go for the more modest Uni-Hat CTSVR, (see Lew McCoy's review, Dec. 94 CQ). The CTSVR is a vertical "folded dipole
Aloha Joe, Yes, everything of which you wrote was required of me out here on Kauai. And it was all caused by very hostile neighbors!! I had put up my MA-550 US Tower tubular without any zoning varian
Joe, Ok, forgot a couple of very important points. You will discover that an Assistant District Attorney will be at the Planning Commision meeting. He will take an analyze EVERYTHING you submit in th