Just a quick heads up--If you are in the market for ground rods, I found on a hunt for something else at my local Home Depot, that they have 10 foot copper clad rods 3/4" o.d. for $15.50. These are t
Why don't you get the Amphenol T and stick an amphenol barrel connector onto the one male UHF to get 3 females? Rob K5UJ _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps
I filed a comment during the original period, and am more than willing to file a reply comment. The problem for me which I brought up on the RFI list, is that I need pro-BPL comments to reply to. I n
Hi everyone: One of my antennas is a dipole ~30 feet up that's a 1/2 wave at around 5.3 MHz (88' long). I feed it with 600 ohm open wire feed and use it on 75 meters where it's around 1/3 wave long.
Hi everyone--below is an email I sent to my local radio club yesterday re BPL Feel free to use it as a template. Note that some of the wording may seem odd because it is an employee club. Rob K5UJ Hi
Another source for grounding/protection hardware and information is Harger in the Chicago suburbs. Go to http://www.harger.com Rob Atkinson K5UJ ______________________________________________________
P. 1 of the Metro section of today's Chicago Tribune: Antenna Stirs Static Among Neighbors by John Keilman 8/11/2003 Excerpts (summaries in [ ]): Carmen Ambroggio's lifelong passion for ham radio is
okay, my 2 cents: I think a tiny number of guys get out of control (I'm talking about a zillion towers etc. not 3 or 4) BUT I will defend to the grave EVERYONE's FREEDOM to get "out of control" if th
In the town I'm in, the local ordinance says all residential towers have to be set back from property boundaries a distance equal to the height of the tower + 10 ft. Because of my small lot, this mea
Uh oh, Fox news reports FCC is exploring environmental factors related to towers. My half-baked gov't decision alarm is sounding (BPL; RF exposure limits...). http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,9533
TT readers will recall the post about 10 days ago concerning a story in the Chicago Tribune reporting the summer of discontent among certain Park Ridge IL residents with regard to a 64' crank-up towe
Does anyone have measurements for the RF Inquiry line isolators? Two models are sold by AES; one rated at 250 w. and the other 5 kw. They are considerably more expensive than the Radioworks units mak
My July CQ came in the mail yesterday, and in the new product section, it said MFJ has entered the line isolator market with the model 915, "a 1:1 current balun [sic] ...1.8 - 30 MHz..made up of 50 f
I'm surprised 80 mph winds took it down--I would have guessed it had been constructed to take over 100 mph at least. Rob Atkinson K5UJ <WIFR-TV23 Off The Air Rockford Andy Gannon A devasting storm le
There's a thread in the eHam website now concerning the reuse of fallen towers: http://www.eham.net/articles/5820 Rob Atkinson K5UJ _________________________________________________________________ H
When Chuck C. wrote about burning up his balun I wondered if there wasn't something better to use as filler to dissipate the heat. The only reason I could come up with for using foam was to cushion t
It was an Eldorado--I worked him once on 20 cw--he was running 1 kw mobile on the Hollywood Freeway--I have the card; it's one of the few items of ham memorabilia I have that I value. Rob Atkinson K5
Not an expert on this by any means but I think a long ground run from the second floor will cause problems for you at frequencies where the length of the run is a large fraction (1/4) or more of the
I've been asked about my statement saying artificial ground counterpoise wires should be 1/2 w. This was incorrect. I went back and rechecked my old reading. 1/4 w. wires should work fine. I confused
I've been asked about my statement saying artificial ground counterpoise wires should be 1/2 w. This was incorrect. I went back and rechecked my old reading. 1/4 w. wires should work fine. I confused