I've been using a flag RX antenna at my house in the suburbs of DC here and have had pretty good luck with it on 160m and 80m. It has a reasonable directive pattern but I don't think that's why it's
By the way, a down-in-my-noise* K9YC came back to me last night in the Stew like I was running a kilowatt into a full size vertical... He can sure hear... because he knows what he's talking about, mo
I'm sorry, wrong G4, that's **G4HFQ** that wrote Polar Plot, not G4FGQ. http://www.g4hfq.co.uk/ It's pretty great if you're trying to assess directive antennas of any kind. __________________________
I checked an inflation calculator and $1150 in 1967 dollars is about $7200 today. Betcha could buy one of identical quality for $7200 today. In fact, I bet you could get a fabrication shop to build
I used 8 turns of RG-6 through a stack of four cores ... two of the cores were FT-140-77 cores. The other two are probably something like FT-140-61 or FT-140-43. On 160m the unknown cores have a good
Looking for a 6 foot stick of 2.25" O.D. 1/8th wall aluminum tubing to make some couplers for a guyed rotating mast of 2" tubing. I'm having a hard time finding it for non-ridiculous prices. Haven't
I don't know if they're being replaced by something to new spec or they just wanted to make space on the shelves, but my local Home Depot had 6x6x6 outdoor weatherproof junction boxes labeled about $
Had two emails in the last half hour asking whether the penny boxes were plastic or metal... so figure this is of general interest to the list as well. They're plastic ;-) I prefer plastic for crampe
Certainly not transmitter lockup! Anyway, you could strip off the jacket from your coax on 80 and 160 and probably not even notice the extra loss until it went all green and crusty ... SWR problems
There's another possible option, and I haven't analyzed it but if someone's interested it's a pretty easy process in EZNEC Start with a 40m Moxon... on 30m use relays to switch a loading capacitor in
A 40m Moxon designed using Moxgen for 7.030MHz with 12 gauge wire construction (like copperweld + fiberglass spreader type?) needs a 20pF capacitor in the center of the reflector for best F/B (only 1
All or part of the Spiderbeam 18m fiberglass pole would suit: http://www.shop.dx-is.com/product.sc?categoryId=5&productId=8 Collapsed length escapes me right now but it's about chest high to my six f
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End-loaded super short dipole ... with the coils simultaneously acting as loading inductors and capacitance hats, with unknown efficiency. Yeah, I just did an antenna that's got spiral hats, 3 feet
dipole and was quite pleased with it. I used it >when our family moved to a condo while our house was remodelled. However, it was only single band (40m in my >case). Eham reviews are here: http://ww
I went to try and download the whole thing with a download tool and was presented with a "Don't do that, it's a waste of bandwidth, Antennex sells it on CD" So I think for this one, the site *conten
For what it's worth, I've exchanged emails with Jack Stone (not a pseudonym; an lack of an amateur license isn't proof that someone does not exist, and a lack of a QRZ entry is not proof that one do
That should raise a big red flag ;-) If you can put out 60 120' radials, don't waste your time with a no-radials antenna... but more on that in a second. To directly answer your question, yes, as it
"This is a 'no-brainor'.... Who is Ameritron's parent company..... I have never heard a bad report, on the air, about any Palstar product. The only tuner I've ever heard more praise for is the 'ole-r
Not hard. height needed for a full size >radiator?? Sure, a 20' tapered aluminum radiator would do it. I wouldn't add more tower if I were just using it as a vertical. Of course, if you install it r