I also got one from the same apparent email address regarding a different towertalk post I made in 2015. It looked suspicious so naturally I didn't open the attachment. Paul N1BUG ___________________
Every situation is probably a little different but I have a 100 foot tower with TH-11DX, 7 element 6 meter and 13 element 2 meter antennas. I have been shunt feeding it on on 160m running full legal
Thanks Jim! I was going to ask if you had any recommendations for a good 2200M receiving choke but I read your new work and see you stated you have not found a good material for chokes at that freque
Mike, good work! You were not the only thing prowling the woods and playing with wires yesterday. I ventured off to repair Beverages that came down in a recent storm. Repair may be too strong a word.
I'm covered either way. While I do enjoy the higher HF bands during solar max, and wish I had been able to be on 6 meters early enough to catch some real F2 there (not possible while neighbors were i
I don't recall seeing this come up before so I may be the only person wanting to do it. It wouldn't be the first time. But before I go and invent a wheel which may turn out to be triangular, I wanted
Thanks to everyone who responded on and off list. There were several suggestions and I a now have a few options to explore. I might even get something installed before I get buried in snow! 73, Paul
I've tried that, but find it's not quite what I want for routine checks. From inside, I need to turn off all interior lights and/or open a window to prevent glare. Turning off all the lights isn't to
So far I've been happy with my Komelon 200 ft/60m reel tape measure. Same for the Komelon 26ft/8m steel tape measure. Paul N1BUG _______________________________________________ ______________________
Your local soil conditions may be the determining factor. I live in central Maine at 45.2 north latitude, with sandy soil. There is a lot of broken glass and other junk in the soil which I was worrie
Yes, after pulling the two wires apart you will have two nice coils of wire with an attitude! I have used thousands of feet of WD1A for reversible Beverages, control cables and even feed line for LF/
This is anecdotal as I have no solid proof of what I think is happening. It also may not closely resemble your situation, since my tower is shunt fed. I have a 100 foot tower with significant top loa
It doesn't work that way. You need two feed lines, each going to opposite ends, each end having both a transformer and resistor, and relays that switch them in or out to flip the direction. Not neces
Hi Towertalkers, I spent much time this summer rebuilding after storm damage last winter. As part of that I upgraded from inverted V's at 90 and 105 feet for 30m and 40m to an OptiBeam OB1-4030 at 10
I have received a large number of responses both on and off list. Thanks everyone! Several mentioned adding an 80m wire vertical alongside the 160m shunt fed tower, series feeding the 80m and using t
It may depend on the particular 6m antenna. That said and for what it's worth... I had a 7 ele 6m (homebrew 33 foot boom) 5 feet above a TH11DX for several years. SWR on both the TH11 and 6m were una
Sometimes crazy things happen on 160. I've had extensive experience with a 100 foot shunt fed, top loaded tower over 100 radials and an inverted V, apex at 75 feet. Actually not very inverted with th
I just did this with a 22' 2" OD chromoly mast a few months ago. I had a 20' length of 2" schedule 80 6061 aluminum pipe (2.38" OD) so I made a long gin pole out of it. With 5' clamped to the tower,
The answer is likely "it depends on the specific antennas involved". Last year I placed an OptiBeam OB1-4030 about 9 feet above my TH11DX. I did not rotate it 90 degrees. The elements are parallel. I
All hams or just those who are active in some way? Active hams or active hams who are on HF? I can't speak for numbers elsewhere but in this area more than 50% of those who are on the air at all are