HF remote equipment

Mon Sep 5 16:53:16 EDT 1994

Danny, tell the guy to go scratch! I assume he is  using a properly engineered Exterior
TV Receiving Antenna? If not...I wouldn't give the guy the time of day. I had a similar
Problem with a neighbor a few years ago...the end of the story is the FCC gave ME a clean
bill of health, and told that guy to get cable, or install an outside antenna. (He was
using rabbit ears!) Of course, I mounted an external antenna on the same rooftop as
my tri-bander (my old QTH) about 25 feet horizontal spacing and showed NO disruption in
TV signal at any power level or frequency. If you cannot demonstrate this at your QTH then
you may want to consider remote control equipment. But if your signal is clean...don't
give in!

73, J.P. 
>Thinking seriously about remote operating, the amp and beam on Asia cannot cocoexist with my 

neighbors prime time 5-11 TV evenings. No he doesnt want
>cable, and the old RCA he got rid of  for his new $1000 whiz-bang TV was
>tvi proff, but not this new one! So.....anyone done successful HF remote
>TX and RX with off the shelf stuff? AEA has a box Ive listened to. Anyone
>have any software that emulates the front end of a rig on a computer screes?
>screen? Might feel stupid calling CQ DX on my phone handset ..but then
>again..it beats no CQing at all. Ill try and compile answers for anyone
>who is interested. Pse QSP any ideas, thoughts, or names. 73 Danny K7SS.mcimail
>

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J.P. Kleinhaus, AA2DU
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TVI???  What TVI???
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>From Norton, Richard" <nortonr at MRD.SRL.dsto.gov.au  Tue Sep  6 17:27:00 1994
From: Norton, Richard" <nortonr at MRD.SRL.dsto.gov.au (Norton, Richard)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 94 09:27:00 PDT
Subject: Request for Info: UA On-site Contests
Message-ID: <2E6C996B at msmail.dsto.gov.au>

Can anyone please provide  information on the on-site contests held 
periodically by the UAs?

Good things to cover:

1) How many on-site stations participate? How are they chosen? Are they 
nominated by a local radio club? Are they in some way seeded or nationally 
ranked so that the top so many are allowed to participate? Are there some 
teams that would like to participate but are not allowed to? How many people 
on a team?

2) Are they in tents or buildings or what?

3) Do they provide the tents themselves?

4) Do they set the tents and stations up by themselves? Are there team 
members who set up but do not operate?

5) Do they bring their own equipment?

6) What is the allowable equipment? Is their a power limit? Is there a limit 
to the number of simultaneous stations? Is there a limit to the number of 
simultaneous receivers?

7) What kind of antennas are allowed? Do the participants set them up 
themselves?

8) How long is the contest? What time of day in local time does it start and 
end? Are the teams allowed to set up ahead of time? Is setting up time part 
of operating time?

9) Are schedules allowed? Are private contacts with friends discouraged?

10) Are logs scrutinized very carefully? Are the operators watched by 
judges? Do they tape record the contest? How long after the contest are the 
results ready? Do they exchange claimed scores before the final results are 
announced?

11) How close in distance are the stations to each other? Do they cause bad 
interference to each other? Are some of the locations better than the 
others? Why? If one entrant has a particularly bad signal that interferes 
badly with others, is anything done to make him correct it?

12) Is there a detailed set of rules that applies to the event to cover 
every situation, or very few rules - like US contests have?

13) For the most part, is there general agreement that the winner has indeed 
beat the competition and deserved to win? Does the same team generally win 
year after year? Is it a close contest?

14) Please add anything else that might be of interest, even if not 
specifically asked for. Answers to even some of the questions would be 
appreciated.

Thanks,

73,

Dick N6AA          NortonR at MRD.SRL.DSTO.GOV.AU

>From Swanson, Glenn,  KB1GW" <gswanson at arrl.org  Mon Sep  5 19:06:00 1994
From: Swanson, Glenn,  KB1GW" <gswanson at arrl.org (Swanson, Glenn,  KB1GW)
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 94 14:06:00 EDT
Subject: Keep up the rate...
Message-ID: <2E6CB000 at arrl.org>

In a follow up to K1TN:  I operated for just 1/2 hour last nite (Sunday) and 
had 70 plus folks call me with my KB1GW/125 call sign!  (Up to 200 or so 
now.)  Unreal.  73 -- Glenn

>From fish at crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P  Concentric Systems, Inc.)  Tue Sep  6 19:07:10 1994
From: fish at crl.com (Bill Fisher, KM9P  Concentric Systems, Inc.) (Bill Fisher, KM9P  Concentric Systems, Inc.)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 11:07:10 -0700
Subject: 160M dilemma
Message-ID: <199409061807.AA13679 at mail.crl.com>

Given the following...

A 115 foot tower guyed with Phyllistran with the following antennas:

125' - 402CD rotary
115' - 6 el KLM 10M rotary
85' - 204BA fixed to EU
65' - 402CD fixed to EU
35' - 204BA fixed to EU

This tower will also support a 4 square wire array for 80m.

What to do on 160M?  I want to use elevated radials if it's a vertical.

Idea #1 (de K3LR):  Run a wire to the top of the tower at whatever angle
will put the bottom of the wire far enough off the ground to run 4 elevated
radials.  I believe Tim said this is what K8AZ is running and is very happy
with the system.

Idea #2:  Shunt feed the entire tower.  Harder to predict what will happen
here.  Also, the elevated radials will probably interact with the radial
system for the 80m array.

Idea #3:  Inverted L.  95' of vertical and still fed 20' off the ground!
Radial problem still a possible problem interacting with the 80m system.

Idea #4:  Half sloper.  My 80m half slopers at my current QTH work great!
The key here is the top hat (40m beam).  I was also reading in ON4UN's new
book that some Italian that was on a hilltop was using this antenna with
great success.

Other ideas?  Your thoughts?  This is a hilltop location.  250' of drop
within 1500' of this tower in all directions.  

Thanks alot guys, I don't know what I'de do without ya!  I'll post the
responses in a summary if there is enough info of value in it for everyone.

---
Bill Fisher, KM9P
Concentric Systems, Inc.  (CSI)
404-442-5821  Fax 404-667-1975