Author: w4ctk atfarmerstel.com (Carlton and/or Lana Floyd)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:17:06 -0500
Have any of you history buffs given thought to activating Milton and Campbell Counties ? No one has activated either one in a contest since 1932. Jeff, and... Folks should use what mode they like...
Author: w4ctk atfarmerstel.com (Carlton and/or Lana Floyd)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:08:21 -0500
Well, you probably will not get Lee to admit it but when he was a kid the state flower of Alabama was the goldenrod. It was changed to a camellia when he was in grammar school. I thought Lee's commen
Author: w4ctk atfarmerstel.com (Carlton and/or Lana Floyd)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:40:34 -0600
Well, maybe he has actually listened in on a DX pile-up "enhancing international good will"...or a two-meter repeater in NYC or LAX...or a late night 75 meter round table.
Author: w4ctk atfarmerstel.com (Carlton and/or Lana Floyd)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:54:24 -0600
Well, if the pass-er has a political agenda to boost it is understandable why it would be passed around on what is supposed to be a non-partisan circuit.
Author: w4ctk atfarmerstel.com (Carlton and/or Lana Floyd)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:58:51 -0500
W4CTK was there. Hi Guys...just got home yesterday afternoon from the Huntsville Hamfest...Jim VE7ZO and I were asked by the Ala Contest Group to do a pair of presentations at the Hamfest...I was rea
Author: w4ctk atfarmerstel.com (Carlton and/or Lana Floyd)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:26:56 -0500
I once enhanced the performance of a Moseley vertical by strewing 150 pounds of copper sulfate around it...gave the grass an interesting color, too. The XYL did not appreciate it much.
Author: w4ctk atfarmerstel.com (Carlton and/or Lana Floyd)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:42:20 -0500
Use tapered wire. The concentric radial approach I mentioned I thought was discussed within the 564 page book: Radio Antenna Engineering, by LaPorte. This is a classic and good addition to anyone's a
Author: w4ctk atfarmerstel.com (Carlton and/or Lana Floyd)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:47:16 -0500
I once saw part of the installing process for a commercial radio transmitting tower. The counterpoise grid was at least an acre...a lot of steel wires/rods welded at their intersections...it was very