Hi Kelly No, probably just lay them on the ground. Will be lots of kids and dogs running around :-) Thanks for all the replies. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _________
Hi Bill, et al A big caveat also is where are you? I'm sure a low dipole in New England is going to work a lot of DX on 160. But if you live in Kansas, or even here in Oregon, you are going to work
Hi All We're getting to go on a 2 week camping vacation in a couple of weeks. I want to take an all band antenna along, so I made a dipole fed with 100 feet of 300 ohm ribbon (not a center fed zepp--
Hi Bob Here is an old trick from KH6IJ many years ago. Crimp a screwdriver (with the handle towards the boom) to the end of the element you wan't to remove with a pair of vice grips. Smack the screwd
One 'neat' idea I had was to use some closeline for rope to tie my antenna to a tree. I just made a loop in the rope and wrapped the end of the bare antenna wire in the loop. Checked the SWR and all
Here is a good link to some info about lightening protection. http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_lhm/magic.pdf Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _____________________________
I wouldn't be too sure about that. You can have an awful lot of current running in a coil in an antenna tuner. We used to pull 6 inch arc's off coils (don't try this at home) in a KW setup. I have m
Do you have a computer hooked to your radio? Sometimes the poling will make a noise in the receiver in sync with the poling speed. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______
I have an inverted 'L' for 160 and an 80 meter dipole in the same tree. They both work fine, but I can sure see a difference when I let the 80 meter dipole down. It changes the SWR on the inverted 'L
OK, maybe you are right. But, if I don't have the ground hooked up to the rig and I touch my tuner, the SWR varies. When I hook up the ground, it doesn't do that. And I know for a fact, I have run l
U'mmm, probabably have it on top of 3 or 4 150 foot towers, with all sorts of stacks, etc. I've got one tree and a 30 foot crank-ups stuck at 20 feet, so I make do with what I got. :-) 73 Tom W7WHY
I've used it for all sorts of antenna applications and not had a ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Doesn't the Screwdriver mobile antenna have PVC for the base? Maybe that part don't rad
I guess I don't understand why someone would want to do all this to shift the pattern of the antenna in a different direction. Why not just rotate it in the direction you want the pattern to go? I do
Oh--OK--yeah that would be neat. That way you could have an antenna set for domestic contests with a high takeoff and for a DX contest with the low angle. Now, that is something that needs to be wor
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Hi All Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought guying a crankup tower was a no-no. Too much downward forces. Did I seee that somewhere? 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______
Also, if it has had steam run through it, I'd imagine it is pretty rusty inside. Tom W7WHY I would not use it for mast material. You want something like high carbon steel or 6061-T6 aluminum. Steel i
Hi Larry I wouldn't get within 10 miles of those wires :-) I had a friend here, W7IVX, who had a big station on top of the hill. To the north about a mile were some high tension wires and they always
way. There is another thing I have noticed about some power lines. At a local campground where we camp, there are some power lines just as you go into the campground. When listening to the AM radio,
Hi Mike I think you misunderstood what I was saying (TIC of course). I was saying maybe my signal would get into the power line wires and re-radiate like a big antenna, like it does on the receive en