Problem with using round pipe is that they charge an extra 'handling fee' for shipments that aren't stackable. I used to run into that problem when I did a lot of eBay at the shop I worked in. They t
HI Don I remember some years back, KH6IJ had an article in CQ about stuck elements. What he did was take a pair of vice grips and clamp a screwdriver to the end of the element you are trying to remov
Steve must be on vacation or he would have stopped this a long time ago. I don't understand how this turned into a political discussion. I get enough of that on TV. 73 Tom W7WHY _____________________
Hi Tin Wonder what kind of ladder line you are using. Some of that stuff with the solid core wire corrodes pretty bad. It is copperweld and if you scrape off the copper, the steel under will rust. I
Hi Duane You might check the local Goodwill or other places like that. I just picked up a complete roll of RG-6 for less than $10.It is the type that had 2 coax lines fastened together with a zip lin
Howie - W2QHH worked every country there was at the time, had 'em worked and confirmed. Number 1 on the Honor Roll. He was the first guy to have 6 band DXCC. Probably had every award ever offered at
Who needs all that aluminum. Just squirt the right length of seawater :-) 73 Tom W7WHY http://www.wired.com/2010/11/seawater-antenna-squirts-radio-signals/ ___________________________________________
Some OT's will remember the single wire fed, Windom antenna that was popular back in the day. There were a lot of these on the air. The Windom back then was a wire around 135 feet long, fed with a si
Hi Joe You might be interested to look up and see what the impedance of that antenna is on different bands. If you are using a 4:1 balun on all bands, there will be some terrible mismatches, and that
I have a Johnson Matchbox, the 275 watt one, and I need the bandswitch if someone has one they could sell me to fix mine. Could send a check or cashiers check. Don't do Paypal any more. Thanks and 73
A friend here had a fixed 2-el quad on 80 and used a relay to switch the parasitic element from reflector to director. He burned out some relays before he finally got some high power vacuum relays. T