p.s. one other thing -- you should reasonably expect to accord station employees access to your property whenever they need to get at their equipment. This may include employees of professional tower
another PRB1 victory of sorts...de rob/k5uj: Ham radio tower has the OK signal Wheaton says it can't deny request By Bob Goldsborough Special to the Tribune Published September 23, 2004 Despite oppos
I don't know where you live Dan, but we in the Chicago suburbs are familiar with a creature that is especially prevalent in wealthy big city suburbs, the indolent, bored, self-centered whiner. After
Further, it should be noted that Wheaton is the town where the late Grote Reber made history when he assembled, in his backyard, the world's first parabolic dish radio telescope, which is now on perm
I know a lot of us would like to contact the neighborhood spokesman in some fashion or other, but as the one who introduced this news item, I say let's please respect the wishes of atty. O'Connell an
FYI, the 2005 fybush.com Tower Site calendars are available, either from: Northeast Radio Watch www.fybush.com or Universal Radio http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/books/4492.html Rob/K5UJ _____
One of my goals in life is to locate in a Tom R. type area and escape the Cafe Society that the suburbs have become. I even have a junk car ready (except I'm still driving it right now), known in thi
my advice Mike, put up every tower and antenna you are ever going to want to put up now while you still can. it sounds to me like you are in a transition area--it is only a matter of time before the
Bill, for 900 thousand bucks, if I didn't HAVE to live around here for my job, i'd take that money and buy way more than 1/2 acre, out in western IL, Wisc., or Iowa. Yes, it's true there are some ham
Quick question: If you have a 1 w.l. (on 75 meters) horiz. loop up, and you use one corner of it to hoist up the vertical wire of an inverted L, and run the horiz. part of the L out diagonally across
Regarding the problem with the MFJ swr analyzer, I noticed something interesting with mine a few weeks ago (I own the 259 or is it 269? the one with UHF coverage) when I was using it to tune my trans
I went to Home Despot yesterday to pick up a few little odds and ends for my next antenna project. About 9 months ago, their 5/8" 8 foot long ground rods were going for around 8 dollars. Now they are
I own a Titan so a few quick comments based on my experience: Obviously there will be a huge difference between it and the quad or yagi (can't remember wat u said u had) you had before. May as well g
That's probably right. I can't really comment much about 75 m. performance because I used it vy little there. I recall making contacts with it though, and even using it late at night in a NAQP SSB co
p.s. two quick things i forgot to mention to clarify: the loop at my qth is 1 w.l. on 75 m. I did not mean that all horiz. loops are cloud burners--only that mine is because its 30' high. rob/k5uj __
Okay, I have what must be a stupid question. I say that because I have looked for an answer and have been unable to find one, so the answer must be so obvious that I'm not seeing it and everyone else
Okay Thanks Tom and Jerry-- the key apparently is to keep the feed real short in terms of wavelength, on the ant. side of the xformer. This won't be difficult to do on 1.9 mhz. Then the characteristi
Hello folks: I am considering making one or two chokes and using RG8X. After digging around on some of the contesting.com archives, I've seen several recommendations to wrap the 8X on 4 or 4.5 inch P
tnx Tom for ur very complete and valuable advice. I am dissatisfied with the performance of my ferriet on 160, as it is probably geared more for HF. It is a good time to give coax chokes a try. I thi
thanks Steve, i looked at the radioworks 8X solid stuff--they say it has same center as foam except the copper is tinned. I think the shield is tinned also. I'm also looking at using 213. On a 16" di