I read their experiment. They will transmit only a CW (unmodulated) signal for the minimum time needed to complete a field strength reading. The only frequency where they will run 1000W "radiated"
A few excerpts from Texzon's license request: As well as under the control of Amateur licensee: Michael Paul Taylor FRN: 0024766438 General Class Amateur License call sign KG5IUC Texzon will be condu
You were 579 in VT but you could not hear my 100W. However, there was a distinct lack of activity - I stayed on from 0100Z for nearly 2 hours, but only worked 9 NA stations. Nothing like the dozens o
Just for fun, I modeled a 160m low inverted-V in NEC4.2, using 4NEC2 to look at the patterns. The apex was 15m up. Each leg was 40.7m long with the ends 7.5m up. It was fed with 300 Ohm open wire
When 90% of band activity is taking place in ~1% of the available bandwidth, it gets one's attention, doesn't it. Personally, I have always considered DXpedition, and especially contest, CW exchanges
I predict that it won't be long before there is an FT-8 robot, or something similar, on the Moon! What better way to test a new antenna than a long haul s/n report? No one has mention Amateur satell
In my experience (sine 1957) casual CW DX contacts have nearly always been RST, QTH, Name, and for a long QSO maybe Rig. A memory keyer can do most of TX, and nowadays there are fairly good CW decod
Look for deep rich moist farm soil. Recent chemical fertilizer use should make it even more conductive On 4/1/2018 10:45 AM, Jeff Kinzli N6GQ wrote: So I'm looking to purchase a new QTH. I'm not par
Hey, the great minds that financed the Solyndra Solar debacle might go for it! Laser Com Announces New Topband Antenna System Reported by Woody K3YV Laser Com, Inc. of Titusville, Florida recently an
I assume that the same thing occurred when CW (Continuous Wave) started to replace spark, and tube receivers started replacing crystal sets. "Its to easy, takes away the challenge". Back in the 80s I
Another bit of advice is to move as far north as you can stand, because up here the population is steady or declining as folks migrate away from the snow belt. On 4/1/2018 2:31 PM, HP wrote: My first
I modeled an inverted-V last week. If the feed is balanced, the total radiation pattern (Hor + Ver) is omni-azimuthal with a lot of upward radiation. Directly broadside, the radiation is horizontal
Yes run the wires NE-SW for 160. This might not help (or hurt) 80m. Even a flat (low) dipole has vertical radiation off the ends. I have a full-size NE-SW 630m dipole only 2m off the ground that ha
when I buried all of the cables for my tower 100m from the shack, a neighbor used his small tractor to pull an ancient small modified plow. The left side of the blade was removed, so it cut a small
I also received a spool of the wire today, brand new in original box. It is a good buy, but still cost twice what I paid for a couple of 2km spools of the same wire at about $60.00 each with shippin
One partial solution might be to collect small rocks and place them along each radial on top of the wire close enough together to provide clear visual cues. Have you tried digging a shallow trench wi
I have a DX Engineering radial plate bolted to the tilt-over base of my aluminum tower. It is very nice, and I use the coax cable feature to ground my feedline. It is really overkill for your purpos
It seems to me that this may be similar to the time when the Government threatened to cut the VHF weather broadcasts or when schools threaten to cut popular arts or sports programs. I could be wrong
This is exactly what WSPR was designed to do. In my 40yrs + as a ham, it became a habit to first check WWV/WWVH and then carry on with tuning around. We already have ham band propagation beacons on 2
I used #10 plastic insulated solid "house wire" salvaged from 2-conductor + ground cable for the small 5 inch dia coil on my 630m inverted-L. The insulation automatically provides a spacing of about