Hi Bill, I use #14 stranded and insulated (PVC coated) spools of wire from Home Depot costing $12.77 / 500' spool. (Electrical Supply dept) - hard to beat that price.. :-) This is single wire electri
from after bidirectional) -- Hi Barry, You got my curiosity up concerning #14 stranded vs: solid #14 wire. I ran some actual strength pull tests. I compared black HomeDepot THHN 14AWG 16 strand 600V
have -- Hi Scott, I've found that #14 PVC insulated copper wire from Home Depot in 500' rolls is about the best value out there. It's $12.77/ 500' = about 2.5 cents/ft. I like the black SOLID #14 wi
of aluminim fench wire at a very inexpensive price. The #17AWG works great and its also good because it doesn't rust. -- Hi Greg, I'm curious... how do you bond the aluminum radial wires to their ce
FT-1000D...." 73 Clive GM3POI -- I do the same thing here with a beverage in one ear and the verticals in the other for diversity. On low static nights I find the 3 el vertical array hears about as
Hi John, You guys always come through! Nice shots and interesting configuration with the raised radials, ground screen combo and parasitic config for endfire. Since you'll be tuning that puppy soon a
Here's my observations for both 75M and 160M sunset and later evening angles, based on 15 years playing 75M DX and only a few months doing 160M DX - for CT to Europe: Using the 3el 160M vert array co
Hi Top Banders, Now that the summer static is upon us, and the new DSP rigs have been out for awhile, I wonder if anyone can offer opinions as to the effectiveness of DSP and digital filters for rece
I'm finding the 160M dipole thread fasinating. I have some more antenna test input: I 've continued to run tests on 160M between my 3 antennas: a three el vert array, a dipole at 198' broadside NE, a
Just completed the W8JI Key Click Mod to my FT-1000D. When looking at the before and after, man, what a difference! The waveform now has a softer look to it as it should - textbook look now. Edges ar
Lots of good ideas, especially political info - tnx! Here's another real-life story: It appears to help immensely when one can report a SPECIFIC pole/location that is generating the noise. I have a l
Interesting info on the lower mounted Yagi on a 160M shunt fed tower! I am in the same situation with a 110' shunt fed Rohn 45 tower with a full sized 40M rotary dipole at 35' and a large 14el 13-32m
Hi All, I wonder if someone would be kind enough to guide me through a few questions before I continue with this new project?.... Background: I've just about completed a new "three in line" 160M vert
Hi TopBanders, I recently posted a request for opinions about radials. I was pleased to get a lot of private mails - Thanks to all! I also got requests from other guys looking for info asking if I ha
Hi All, Since posting the condensed radial info I've received an email from a personal friend who has had experience measuring performance for 'Y' or crows feet extensions to radials far away from th
Wow, this must be a commom occurance. I use three, 1 watt 220 ohm resistors in series for terminators. Every summer I go out and inspect these terminating resistors of my three beverages and they are
I wonder if anyone can offer opinions on the advantages that vertically polarized antennas have over horizontals on 160M related to geomagnetic Earth absortion? I did a web search and see nothing on
Hi Everyone, A friend of mine suggested that I consider a tunable active (or passive) = preselector to improve S/N on my broadband, toroidal fed 1500' = terminated beverage. I use an FT-1000D with di
I wonder if anyone has experience, opinions, or performance guesses on = tuning a free standing, 190' grounded tower as a 160M parasitic = reflector with a standard 1/4 vertical in front using elevat
Hi Bill, I appreciate your and the many private email suggestions for my parasitic tower reflector question! Thank you Earl, K6SE, for your detailed information and suggestions. It appears that the t