Hi Dan. Good luck with your Voyager vertical. I got one
up last Novenber with the help of one of my sons and my xyl. Wasn't too
difficult. I've been pretty happy with mine. I have worked 51 DXCCs on 160m
including JA and HC8 on it. Also had good results on 40 and 20. It is much
quiter than my R7 on 40 and 20. I have a Titan
waiting to go up when I get the inclination to do it.
73 Larry/K4PIC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan/W4NTI" <w4nti at mindspring.com>
To: "secc" <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 17:24
Subject: Re: [SECC] AA4LR - QRV - Six bands
> Good show Bill.
>
> I managed to finally get my tower up, with a Hazer, and my TA-33SR is
> doing
> excellent. Now I need to get my Voyager GAP DX up for the low bands.
> But,
> tough getting a crew up. We shall see.
>
> Dan/W4NTI
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr at arrl.net>
> To: "secc" <secc at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 4:09 PM
> Subject: [SECC] AA4LR - QRV - Six bands
>
>
>>
>> Greg, K4NO sent a message back in April asking what projects and
>> station improvements everyone had planned for the summer.
>>
>> I please to say that I've gotten most of my listed improvements done.
>> Six bands from one 15m tower:
>>
>> 10-15-20m - A3S at 15m.
>>
>> 40m - A743 rotatable dipole kit on A3S. While the bandwidth is
>> limited, it works much better than the 125 doublet. And a bit better
>> than the half-sloper.
>>
>> 80m - shunt feed on 15m tower. I'm using an omega match, but almost
>> need no shunt capacitance, and can't quite get down to 1:1 since the
>> A743 was added. May need to experiment more here.
>>
>> 160m - shunt feed on 15m tower. Using an L-network to match -- it's
>> two T-200-2 toroids stacked, wound with about 46 turns of wire, and
>> tapped every two turns. Using about 36 turns, this is about 40uH. Cap
>> is 600-750 pf using a fixed and variable cap. Matches very nicely,
>> with about 35 kHz 2:1 VSWR bandwidth.
>>
>> I have a relay to switch between the two matching networks. Already
>> have 25 60 foot radials down, and it works well on 80m. Looking to
>> add about 6 100 foot radials where I have the room to help out on 160m.
>>
>> So, I'm ready for SS, and the ARRL 160m.
>>
>> Built a 30m/17m trap dipole. Worked OK at 15 feet, but resonance went
>> odd when I got it on the tower. May have a bad connection somewhere.
>> More things to troubleshoot.
>>
>> How's everyone else fairing on their projects?
>>
>> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
>> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>> -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>>
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