Jim, your suggestion is good but so far I have only found one other ham who was interested in placing orders with me. That was G3UNA. Lucky because he has an account at Farnell. He buys toroids there
This doesn't change the fact that every shortwave broadcast station in the world uses open wire line to balanced antennas, usually rhombics and dipole curtains, for covering multiple assigned freque
I have a double extended Zepp fed with ladder line and a Ten-Tec 238-B tuner and it works GREAT. I can use it on all HF bands. 73, Tony VE3DWI. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell netwo
Rob, I'm 100% with you. I don't recall who wrote that line damning openwire, but he's off in theoretical outer space. In the practical world we live in, we have to accept compromise. Not one in 100 h
And when you want to switch between a variety of transmitters and open-wire-fed antennas, simply use a multi-way open-wire switch like the one here: http://www.bbceng.info/Operations/transmitter_ops/
Author: Joe Papworth via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:10:35 -0400
Yikes Rick, you stole my antenna motto. Here's an excerpt from one of my articles. It was titled "How to Crack a Pile-up." Cracking a pile-up on aband for which you have no antenna No worries mate
Author: Joe Papworth via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:16:50 -0400
I toured the Voice of America site near Cincinnati some years ago. (It's been QRT for some time) Anyway, the feed-lines were made of copper pipe and to my astonishment, they used to hot-switch those