An interesting aside.... When PT0S was on 80M last night there was a W0 with a wide raspy signal. He was quite loud here in WI. He was calling about 8 up and his signal was so bad he was covering up
Or there's this one in Champaign, IL at the University of Illinois. http://www.ece.illinois.edu/about/history/wullenweber/index.asp It's been several decades since I've been out there and up close. I
This topic made me curious to see what was on Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40%C2%B02'57%22N+88%C2%B022'50%22W&ie=UTF8&ll=40.049563,-88.380675&spn=0.01636,0.038409&hnear=0x880ccc1bf72e25
About a year ago I purchased 65 of these cores from Arrow. The cost was $3.84/ea. To be fair, these were purchased through my employer and we do a significant amount of business with Arrow. I did thi
Hi Clay, One thing you might want to check. See if you can get inside the power supply...disconnect it first. Take a look on the PCB near the power connector. There may be a space on the PCB where yo
Another couple of points. About 10 years ago, at a local ham-fest, there was a guy selling brand new Lambda power supplies. They were adjustable from 10-15 V and he had models ranging from 20-50 amps
I think Pete meant to send this to the list. if not, my apologies Pete. I did exactly what Gary suggests to clean up the power supply on my homebuilt octo-core machine (back when it was a dual core P
Hello Ray, I have a DX-Engineering 8040VA-1 vertical. This is a ~57 foot vertical with a small hat assembly to tune at the low end of 80. There is a trap for 40M. http://www.dxengineering.com/parts/d
Hello Herb, My favorite place for doorknob caps is Max-Gain Systems. http://www.mgs4u.com/index.html Taking a quick look I see they have some 200 pF 7.5 Kv doorknobs. If you don't see what you want,
I was going to make the same comment. I would think that very high in the band, above 3575, would make a LOT more sense. On 11/8/2013 7:22 AM, Lennart Michaelsson wrote: Hi all, Just curious: How com
Lolol 73, Gary K9GS Jim-- I wish you would NOT do this. Vaseline is a Petroleum based product and has nothing to do with Lanolin, which a a natural animal based Wax. The unnecessary broadcast of erro
This one is relatively new but I've been using it quite a bit: http://dxfor.me/ <http://dxfor.me/> Some great tools, alarms, statistics and the DX calendar are great features. I use DX-Summit at time
Operating as W1AW/9 I worked them at 0135Z Saturday night on 80M. They had a pretty good signal. They were operating high in the band, 3555. 73, Jim K9YC _________________ Topband Reflector Archives
Can anyone point me to a design for a splitter for sharing a Beverage antenna between two receivers? This is for Field Day so these are not optimized Beverages by any means. Just want to allow the 80
Hello Mike, There are a couple of guys in IL that have 80M zero-five verticals with a vacuum relay at the top. The relay switches in a top loading wire to make an inverted L/T antenna for 160M. They
I haven't seen this yet. It's about an hour North of my QTH in SE Wisconsin. It has been all over the news. Hard to imagine 680 yards of concrete. There has to be a few with that much money and huge
Hello Bruce, You might also try a nearby marine equipment dealer. They make solar charging systems for keeping boat batteries charged and also for sailboat electronics. 73 Bruce-K1FZ www.qsl.net/k1fz
I think you only have to look at who's on the team to KNOW they'll be on 160. 73, Gary K9GS _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topban
Frank, Thank you very much for this source. I was just looking this week for wire prices. I want to buy quite a lot for next summer's antenna project. The nice thing is he's close enough I'll probabl
Thanks for all the great information. I appreciate your experience. My current installation is in the woods, not in a clear field. I, unfortunately, won't have the luxury of burying the wire. I'll ha