For field testing, Im looking for some ideas for a very small RF amplifier to boost the output from a HCMOS 1.843 MHz oscillator. These oscillators will give me about 20 mW max, but I need a bit more
Thanks for the info George. I have watched your video.very FB indeed. Using the 74HC244 line driver/buffer as a PA is a great idea. I had heard of this idea before, but never found a circuit. Jim, WA
Hi Gene, I do not know why you would try to insulate the radials from the pad. The tower is grounded (I hope), the tower base is in the concrete, and the concrete base is a big huge UFER ground. It m
Hello fellow low-band DXers. Here is a 160m propagation report and trans-polar EU QSO summary from VE6WZ during the last 3 winter seasons. On a few charts I have consolidated Solar indices (SSN and A
Luke, Thanks for being QRV! In fact thanks to VK3HJ, VK2WF, ZL1AZ, and VK3NX for being QRV on 160m almost every day during our NA summer. Every single day this summer that I have been at the radio be
The geo-mag activity and solar wind finally settled down enough last night to allow the band to open over the pole into VE6. Gord VE6SV was calling CQ earlier in the evening and I saw him spotted by
Last night the solar wind had stabilized at around 300km/s and was even dipping lower at times. I started calling CQ at 0300z. My sunset is at 2:48z. I saw OK1CF calling CQ on the Flex waterfall and
Andy, I did not have my recorder running for our QSO, but I did take a screen shot of my Flex waterfall just after our QSO. Here is a link to the image. Your trace is FB between all the yellow QRN cr
Congrats to Bob W7RH for working SM5EDX last week. Strong DX from AZ. I was RX on the QRG during his QSO, but I only had a very brief flash of Johns call. Here at VE6WZ my EU RX is at 30 deg or so, a
Roger, It was great to hear you call in last night. Your signal was very solid. After our QSO when you went up band to CQ, you peaked even more and almost hit a real 599. Not to start the low-dipole
Tonight 6 EU logged. It was nice work Len SM7BIC for our first QSO this season. Groan SM6DHF called in and both OZ7YY and OK1CF peaked up nicely later in the evening. F5IN peaked up enough for a QSO,
Randy, Im glad the system is working for you. I have 15 Beverage wires with about 2.5 miles (4km) of wire through dense old forest and will have down trees regularly after a storm. Perhaps every 2 we
Thanks Jim! I appreciate your compliment. I have a long way to go to catch up to you! Indeed I find building things to be a very big part of the hobby. Perhaps equal to, or even greater than operatin
Thanks for the cograts, and thanks to Yasme for selecting me. I only got an email from Yasme a few days ago telling me about this. I am both very surprised and honoured, especially to be alongside th
What a difference a few nights make. Last night I logged 45 EU, and could have worked more had I not watched a TV show with the xyl. Some extremely strong EU signals into VE6 last night, and the 7P8
Last night the band was in fine shape again. It sounded like there was a lot of activity from NA. Kevin KL7KY was also working into EU. I logged 37 EU last night with a few new, never logged on 160m
With the discussion about declining condx on TB, I decided to do a log extract to compare the last few years here at VE6WZ. I am fairly QRV on 160m CW, often calling CQ most nights and checking the s
Yes. I just finished a new 9 circle PCB combiner board that uses Murata SMD chokes at each vertical input, at the rx out, and I use these devices for the Magic-Ts and the 180 deg phase flip transform
Hello fellow DXers, Today I uploaded a YouTube video describing my new 9 circle combiner board PCB design that has small Murata SMD CMCs on each RG-6 feedline. I include PCB file links to download in
Hi Rich, Im afraid that wont work on either of my previous board designs or on the original YCCC combiner board. This is because the boards all have a low impedance ground plane that the F-connectors