what i did to elevate my beverage was to put fence posts every 50 ft or so and slip a 10 ft piece of pvc over it. I had a deep notch cut in the top and ran electric fence wire over it... keep the cow
I just have to put my 2 cents here on this subject! Back in the 70's my friend and neighbor Don ... then WA4BCY, now K4UE... and I... then K4JYO, now K4WI.. were busy chasing DX for new ones for our
well I guess I knew that my post would stir up the proverbial hornets nest but my comparison was with 3 different hams all within a 30 mile radius using identical rigs and different antennas; one of
i agree with you Bill on F/B from the southeast. Here in Alabama i have the same results beaming JA and Euro and off the back with my KT36 @ 150 ft. Down side with good F/B from W1/W2 is they will ju
I used outlook express for many years but after upgrading to Win 7 it went bye bye. i spent several months trying all the clients available and settled on PostBox. it really works well and has a grea
something else to think about: if you go NON-commercial route can you afford to lose your stuff? All commercial trucks have to have load insurance... a fed mandate... you can't haul without it. Big t
hey John and all! Most truck drivers are just that... they get paid to drive the truck and won't unload/load a trailer. Not their job description! They will tarp/unchain or vice versa as they are res
fyi... I happen to have bought new 7 or 8 years ago+ never used K0XB(?) rotating system for rohn 45... also 6 sticks of 45 and another 100 ft needs to be taken down. I am never going to use this stuf
hey Steve, yes, I did enjoy the article about verticals/beach, very educational! BUT, in the same issue of QST another article "If you can hang a full-size vertical loop, then hang a dipole" really m
my point is that the dipole worked quite well over 15 khz but the loop works equally well over 90khz plus the loop is much quieter... rain static etc than the dipole. I have had quads/loops for many
hey Jim, well I just fed it at the lower corner because it was convenient.... only 25 ft of coax to the feed point about 8 ft of the ground just outside my shack. The apex is at 100 ft off one of my
I have been thinking about building a monster quad for 6 mtrs. I have googled quads and all about but came up with very little data to work with. I did find a 7 el regular spaced quad on 19 ft boom b
question for all... I am changing out my tailtwister for a Yaesu g1000 and bought a pre-made cable with ends already installed but the cover for the plug didn't get put on the cable so no way to add
hey Tony, John and all , yup called HRO today and they confirmed that all special made up cables for Yaesu is by company called JTS and none of them have the boot installed so I have to do this mysel
yup Pete I have worked the skewed or crooked path to Euro on 10/15 many times before it opens on the 45 deg path... mostly EA,I, SV etc.The same path also happens to the west (beam 270 deg) to JA ...
There is a commercial tower not far from me that has been up for many years.... an old AM unit now with some cell antennas on it. I marvel at it ever time I drive by wondering how it has stayed up th
for what it is worth, I have had several quads over the years and my experience has been that they hardly ever have rain static while my yagi's always did.... I do not know the reason though! In the
Back in the 1980's after loosing several towers due to the anchors in concrete coming out of this Alabama heavy clay like they were greased, I decided to bite the bullet and spend some money. Went to
A couple of years ago one early Monday morning I took my Huskie for a walk down my 1/4 mile driveway and when I got out to the county road I noticed three wires about 2 ft long sticking out from the