Come out to Colorado and you wont have the problem of mass European pile ups. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Jim I note from QRZ that you have 133 countries contacted on 160 and yet you havent heard Europe in 2 years. Kinda puts into perspective what 160 is like for those of us in the West these days. KQ0C
We sailors would wrap a line twice around the eye and then leave a longer tail and clamp that with some space between each clamp. The increased friction of 2 wraps around an eye/block/winch substanti
As a very crude analogy what you want to be able to do is use a steel cable from the anchor through the middle of something like an automobile wheel, Then the Phillystran wants to take a couple of la
I would be especially mindful of corrosion issues in tower planning in the Caribbean. There was a recent article in the Contest Journal on the ever difficult tower corrosion experienced at PJ2T. ____
I thought a bit more about this while a beachfront/salt marsh location might be ideal for building an international broadcast facility, if you were building a station for domestic Haitian audiences y
Or an easy and fairly good approach is to set up a sloper off the tower. The sloper acts as an inverted vertical ( inverted verticals work better than ground fed ones) and uses the grounded tower as
Ahh to be on the East Coast. No one works 250 countries from Colorado without a Herculean effort. KQ0C Ash _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
I have the zero five 55 foot antenna which was custom built to actually be a full sized 80 meter antenna. It was affordable and has stood up well on a very windy mountain top. Performance is, of cour
The K3s (I have 2) come sounding pretty bad on SSB. But there are some standard settings for the equalizer which get them sounding pretty good. Im not sure why they dont leave the factory that way. A
Perhaps another view. I live in the bottom of a deep valley where mountains occlude the horizon up to 15-degrees. So I bought some cheap mountain top property 15 miles from here. From that location D
As the ham population ages historically many people have been forced to go off air when they move to retirement communities, assisted living situations etc. Lets not also forget what remote stations
I had a pack rat problem, eating into cables and have completely cured the issue by running coax inside the inexpensive black tubing made for underground sprinkler systems. It comes in 100 and 500 fo
I have a small cabin and station on a mountain top. My experience is that horizontal antennas set right at a cliff face act as if they are much higher than their towers to the point that real towers
Im impressed that you could hear the US SSB stations. I have never heard NZ on 160. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband