Does the length of a BOG scale linearly? In other words, 100' for 80M? 73, Mike www.w0btu.com Frank: I believe there is a large influence of height above ground on VF. ... The influence of height on
Does anyone know if there is another source available for this besides YouTube? The PowerPoint slides are unreadable except when they are zoomed in (briefly). hi all annyone ever did test this setup?
Thanks Jim... You have to remove the three ... from the address. Unfortunately, the same problem with being unable to read the PP slide. Must be a problem in the original recording. W3LPL - Contest U
Thank you Tony! http://www.contestuniversity.com/attachments/W3LPL_Receiving_Antennas_2014.pptx 73, Tony K4QE Sri can't seem to get these links to work. This is listed on Google then follow receiving
The team from VP8SGI just announced that they will be on 160M tonight http://dxnews.com/vp8sgi-south-georgia/ -- 73, Gary K9GS Greater Milwaukee DX Association: http://www.gmdxa.org Society of Midwes
As a point of reference, in the product manual for the Palstar auto tuner, they do mention developing a remote version of their auto tuner. PALSTAR will off er a fully remote version of the base vers
Take a look at the K3LR website. This is essentially what Tim does, only instead of a 4-square, his array is a 5 element parasitic array with three active elements. K3LR just gave a presentation on
I suspect that your success is largely due to your location on Long Island. 73, Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: JAYB1943@OPTONLINE.NET Date: 8/28/17 5:22 PM (GMT-06:00) To: Doug Ellmore <doug@
But being 800+ miles closer to EU (many countries there compared to North America) and a path that is largely over salt water is a huge advantage, particularly on the low bands. Carl -- This email ha
No problem Carl. Ax they say in real estate, "location, location, location " :) 73, Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: Carl <km1h@jeremy.qozzy.com> Date: 8/31/17 7:42 PM (GMT-06:00) To: ga
I was riding to a DX club meeting on Monday night with a friend who recently started playing around with FT8. He said he's worked 60+ countries in a week or so using 100w. Not on 160m. He said that
Hello Ash I listened to you last night. For 100w you had a good signal with some WEB. I was listening on a 1/4 wave 80m vertical. The toploaded vertical is up and running. I had to put the antenna
Can you provide a link so we know what you are talking about? 73, Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: terry burge <ki7m@comcast.net> Date: 12/4/18 8:45 PM (GMT-06:00) To: topband@contesting.com, te
Thanks for posting Peter..that's awesome. Still not sure how I'd explain this thing to a police officer while on my way to put up antennas. 73, Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: Peter Bertini <ra
Hi Dave, Take a look here: https://www.alpharfsystems.com/?s=75+pF&submit=Search They have both the individual caps, now 18 kV, and the 5 capacitor assembly. Good luck 73, Gary K9GS -- Original mess
If you can get the antenna over or near saltwater it will make a huge difference. 73,Gary K9GS -- Original message --From: Wes <wes_n7ws@triconet.org> Date: 8/7/19 5:09 PM (GMT-06:00) To: topband@co
Hi Cecil,No...you don't want your counterpoise in the water. The reason is that RF does not penetrate very far into salt water.The only exception would be if the water was only a few inches deep like
Thank you Grant...you said it better than I. The important thing is to keep the wire out of the water.Robert,If you were to use 1 or 2 radials suspended above the water, could you support the ends us