I am also on a small lot in a city with a 1 wavelength 80 m. horizontal loop. Actually mine is 1 w/l at around 4 mhz so where I operate it's really more like .8 or .9 w/l. my lot is 50 x 100 feet. I
If you have a support for the loop that is 560 feet tall then you don't need an inverted L; you can at the least put up a 1/4 w. vertical with no horizontal part at all. I am not sure what is limitin
I have ordered one or two ICE things and did not have to wait a long time to get them but I ordered my items through Array Solutions so that have made a difference. I also recall having a very pleasa
It's an array of horizontal cage dipoles fed in phase by parallel wire feedline. The dipoles are out in front of a reflector screen. I don't know how many there are but the size of the entire steel s
Which brings up an important point. To some extent there's no one best way. What works for you depends on your environment. Tall trees out in the sticks with none nearby and plenty of unpopulated ro
hi, this is one of those questions that hams will discuss forever. search the list archive (you can probably use the keyword "elevated" to get previous posts about this pro and con). here's an intere
A gun no matter how high watt isn't any good because the tip doesn't have the metal mass needed for soldering a uhf male outside. You'll never find the big irons at Lowe's or Home Depot. Berland's Ho
I checked the Berlin House of Tools catalog and the Wahl iron I mentioned wasn't there so they must have quit selling it. I apologize for that. I should have checked it before I posted it. The aforem
Now that's the way to heat up a pl-259! With one of those you could start a jumper business. The monthly TRW fest is one of the nice things about living out in S. Cal. rob / k5uj ____________________
I think Array Solutions distributes Titanex products in the U.S. 73 rob / k5uj _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list T
okay they used to carry the Titanex verticals (see for example http://lists.contesting.com/_topband/2000-12/msg00117.html so you don't think I'm hallucinating) but they must have discontinued carryin
Frank W3LPL is correct. Your problem isn't your antenna, it is what you describe as a PITA tuner! I use a low loop and ladder line (_ladder line_ not window line) for ragchewing all the time. Sure I
Probably someone with a business that makes chromalloy masts and it's going under. 73 rob / k5uj _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerT
I'd never try 66' (20 m) of tubing each section 6' (1.8 m) long held only with hose clamps. That bottom clamp will be holding too much weight. Short and sweet: if you want that height and you want to
Actually for a 1 kw station on 1340 with a 73 degree stick you get out pretty well. I looked at your contours and the fringe looks like it's about 80 miles from your tx site. not bad for 1 kw non-DA
Whenever these statements that say a vertically polarized (single element) antenna is just as good as some sort of yagi (usually 2 elements and horizontal) appear, they almost always leave out one or
The dipole, at 300 ft. on 160 doesn't beat the 1/4 w. vertical because even 300 feet on 160 isn't high enough. That's like around 35 feet high for a dipole on 20 meters. High enough to make plenty of
the trick for avoiding accidental running the batteries down is to get a plug for an external power source that fits in the DC jack; just the plug is all that's needed. That disables the internal bat
I know it's hard to believe that any parallel wire feedline works when you first install it. There's something counter intuitive about it compared to the way coax is constructed. I think the same psy
I apologize for not looking at the Cobra antenna website before commenting previously. In my opinion, you would be far better off with a center fed dipole of either 88 feet total length for 10 to 80