[SECC] Station Improvements

[Bill Coleman]

On Jan 5, 2005, at 5:35 AM, Daniel L. Jeswald wrote:

> Good show Bill.  Those radials will make a difference.

Couldn't believe it. Last night, I busted a pileup on PZ5RA on 75m 
phone, calling when he turned it back to USA/Canada. And this with just 
100 watts.

Maybe it's not the antenna, maybe I just have good timing....

> Which means the tower and beam will be going up reasonably soon.  So 
> will finally be off the wires.
>
> Just putting up a TA-33SR to start with.

I spent 7 years at this QTH on a vertical and wires before I got the 
tower up. I'm just amazed at the difference it makes to have even a 
small tribander. It's a bigger shift to go from a vertical to a 
tribander at 50 feet than it is to go from the tribander to a station 
like NQ4I's.

Although N4LR manages to do a great job with just wires. I think Gordon 
has some tall trees to work with.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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