NV6O SSB Sprint

[EDWOODS at PACTIME1.SDCRC.PacBell.COM]

0 Q's X 0 mults = not too much less than normal.

I was caught on Friday in - guess where - Visalia on the way home from
Bakersfield and redirected to Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo.  Spent
Thursday eve in Holiday Inn at Visalia.

Observations:

        1       Bring your own remote control

        2       Don't order the Buffalo Wings.  The sauce is like
                barbeque sauce - too tomatoey.  The blue cheese dressing
                for the celery is runny.

        3       Was on the 5th floor overlooking pool area roof.  One
                can open a window and jump out without restriction.  Not
                good for kids.

        4       $89/nite corporate rate - wow  (this is central Cal, not
                NJ)

        5       The guy with the waiting list for rooms for April was
                not available, so I don't know where I'm staying yet.

Went by US Towers to discuss replacement of my TX 472 that was totalled
in the wind.  I will end up with a 3 section tower instead of 4 sections
so that I can accomodate a rotator that will turn my array (whatever it
ends up to be) and still enable the tower to collapse fully.

After seeing a winch cable break, I never will ask anyone to climb a
crank-up that is cranked up again.

Will be on CW Sprint from AA6WJ's - Pro 67B at 80 ft.  765 and Alpha 89.

CU

Eric NV6O
edwoods at pacbell.com

>From Scott J Bauer" <sjb at rfc.comm.harris.com  Mon Feb  6 18:53:54 1995
From: Scott J Bauer" <sjb at rfc.comm.harris.com (Scott J Bauer)
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 95 13:53:54 -0500
Subject: EWE Antenna
Message-ID: <199502061854.NAA14712 at usc02.rfc.comm.harris.com>

EWE ANTENNA

I posted this last thursday and it hasn't shown up here yet, and
at least at 1 other location, so I am re-posting.  I assume it
was lost at my end due to network server problems, if you get
this twice (because of me) very sorry.

K0OD posted " Feb QST....EWE antenna...I wondered if it was some
kind of gag"

NO GAG !

I work with Floyd WA2WVL and this antenna is serious !   I serve
as sort of a proofreader for Floyd, since he gives me a pre-
release copy of each of his articles.  I've seen his modelling
and results first hand, very impressive.

I used three of the EWE antennas during SSB Sweepstakes at John,
K2ZJ's place last november, and they worked very well.  Not quite
as good as the 1500 foot beverage but pretty close !  Why wasn't
my score better ?  Well ask John about the equipment damage that
weekend  (SS excuse #47).

At K2ZJ only 1 beverage is possible with neighbors houses, the
road etc.. in the way in other directions, hence the advantage of
the very small size of the EWE antenna.

As with a beverage, I recommend the following with the EWE.  At a
minimum, an impedance transformer to change the EWE approx. 450
ohm characteristic impedance to 50 ohms.

Then, if your location is prone to interference from local AM
broadcast, add a high pass filter to knock the AM fundamentals
down.  Those with this problem know what I'm talking about.  This will
cut down on 2nd & 3rd order products in the RX front end, that can fall
in-band on 160m and 80m.  i.e. 2x1400 - 1000 KHz = 1800 KHz.  Also if
foreign broadcast is a problem (approx 5-9 MHz), and sometimes it is,
add a low pass filter to knock these signals down (same basic reason as
for the AM signals).  Lastly add a preamplifier to bring the signal
levels (desired signals) back to a more or less similar level to that
of your dipole, vertical, 4-square etc...

Gee, this sounds just like the ZJ beverage box !   Obviously I
was using the ZJ beverage box.  So this is a very biased
testimonial for both the EWE antenna and ZJ box.

In short the EWE worked great with the added box.  Not quite as
good as the beverage since the pattern off the front is much
wider than a beverage.  The F/B is very good even with a single
EWE.  Even better with phased EWEs.  The dimensions are not real
critical, and neither is the installation,  however, in different
locations the performance will vary, so you may need to play with
it a bit if you are in a real bad location.

WA2WVL is very knowledgeable about antennas, as anyone who has
heard him work DX on 80 meters already knows.  So put one up,
this antenna is a keeper !

73 Scott WA2LCC sjb at rfc.comm.harris.com