oh... yeah hills! I forgot about those... the location where I now live in Florida is REALLY flat... the only taking the car through the gears is usually on an interstate on ramp! TA, we don't need n
I read that you thought he was asking a lot - and I replied that you were telling him to cut back on what he wanted, which amounts to limiting his freedom to put up what he wanted! WRONG - The neighb
I cannot imagine it being cheaper to print the entire QSL - the ink my printers use is too costly now - cannot imagine how much I would go through in printing a thousand cards! For a round number - s
A voice of reason has been heard... What an honorable gesture, I applaud you sir. As a resident of a country which has become filled with WAY TOO MANY impatient whiners who want so much handed to the
WLpf (Wind Load of a Pink Flamingo) Depends on whether or not you have vibrating elements oriented True North and be very careful Blake, wasps tend to nest in those Pink Flamingos... Being a former r
Ya know.... A funny thing happened when the Board of County Commissioners met to discuss the antenna tower question at our family QTH. They were very concerned that by allowing us to pursue our anten
...you just couldn 't RESIST that one, now could you Dave It is news to me that ham radio is not a religious experience... When the gray line passes overhead and the signals rise up from the noise on
Due to the extraordinary circumstances of the CA recall of Grayout Davis parts of CA will be using the Chad Machines! Seems they have not mastered those new fangled computerized machines out there in
There are several after market mods for a setable delay on the brake = two I can think of are form Idiom Press and the D-Lay 5 which I think was from the KC Keyer folks... don't reinvent the wheel so
Skyhawk has everything well packed and documented... it is virtually impossible to build it wrong. I helped another ham build one and put it up - each element is individually polybagged, etc... GL Ji
...the WA2SRQ studies are on several places on the net including K1TTT's most excellent web site http://www.k1ttt.net/technote/airbalun.html I have toyed with the idea of making these as a side busin
Find a drum recycler... While it is not exactly what you want it is readily available... Sonotube (tm) or other cardboard forming tubes (which as you have found are quite pricey - sometimes they sell
You're nuts! Have it bent up for you - go to a large local lumber yard and say you need some rebar - here is what I need... NOTE I did not saw Home Center... They have machines to bend it up - or can
As a Sweepstakes enthusiast now in Florida for several decades I can tell you not to invest too much effort in trying to work Floridians on 80 - we ain't there... I typically have 10 or so second rad
Sounds like the time my Dad and I spent hours working on an 80 meter vertical to no avail... turned out the center conductor on the inside of the antenna analyzer was broken! Boy was I pissed... ende