Hello, Well, I've got a new house...and I've got all the suboptimum arrangements that different folks here have mentioned. Let me tell y'all what I want to do, the constraints under which I have to d
Hi, Todd: When you're up in the air, and want to use h-f, one easy-to-write/say solution is to engineer the station so that it has odd quarter-waves of conductors in two (preferably pi-radians apart)
Hi Todd, If you have a window on the side of the shack where you are bringing in your cables, you can make a plate with a wooden frame that is simply clamped in the lower window operator. If you don'
Regarding grounding and an RF service entrance: Parallel conductors spaced apart provide low inductance similar to that provided by flat conductors, as described in Polyphaser's book and other source
additional garage. (both to alternative. > We are talking about approximately 110 feet. Well, the purpose of a good Single Point Ground System is to keep the lightning transients OUT of the house so
Dave, Good idea with the trap-dipole-as-single-wire-but-multi-band-radials. I was just going to run several radials, but I can only really go in two directions (and one better than the other), so I r
Mark, As I sit typing this, I think to myself that I had discounted the board-in-a-window idea because I didn't want to mess up the appearance of the window, and yet...I've been contemplating the "be
Red, Sounds like a nice setup. Yep, several spaced parallel conductors will approximate the inductance of a strap; they let the current density approximate the distribution that it would have in a st
Steve, Inductive reactance - not resistance (even though it has the same units - well, after a 90 degree rotation :-). Tying it all together is certainly my goal. Maybe it's time to model the system
Is your window a double hung with weights. If so why not just drop the top one a little? Someone suggested to one person to replace the window with Lexan or similar. I drilled a hole in the wall, lar
For what it's worth, this is my approach to the double-hung window panel. I built a long, narrow box out of 1X8s, sized to fit the window sill. A sheet of aluminum sits in a groove inside the box to
Chris, They are double-hung, but I'll just raise the bottom one instead of dropping the top one. I'm on the second story, so that will keep my entrance and panel that much closer to the ground. Thank