Okay, I have the ability to loft 1/4 wave of wire on 160m (just in time for next weekend). I'm planning on elevated radials. I'm using a base from an MFJ-1792 vertical (40-80m vertical) for tethering
I left a bunch of "extra" feet on the vertical radiator, four elevated radials (choke-isolated from ground), 200K of static bleed resistance. I pulled wire down until the MFJ-259B read about 1.2:1. M
I'm a newcomer to 160m; last night was the first time I've been able to HEAR continental EU stations, let along work any stations from there! First I heard SM5EDX varying from 599 to inaudible over a
Turned on the radio around 1320 this morning, and there were already people loitering around the usual frequencies, calling CQ, etc. Then on 1823.~6, people calling and calling -- nobody seeming to w
It was great seeing some of the folks I've "chatting with" however briefly ("5nn wa") on 160m. Sorry I missed some other folks that I heard were there as well. I especially enjoyed lunch with Bob W7L
Fun opening last night -- hope it is a good portent for the season to come! -- called DF2PY a few times, OZ1DD was loud and busy, heard G3JMJ barely, and managed to work SM5EDX who must have great ea
It's that season -- time to wind beverage transformers, hang the K9AY Loop with care, and work some 160m DX! I have a large quantity of BN-43-202's, Fair-rite 2843000202, too many for my reasonable p
Some folks have asked how these compare to type 73 material -- Type 73 material in this form has Al of about 8500, and Type 43 material is about 2900. So, for a given impedance, you'll need 3 times t
I have the ARRL's Vertical Antenna Classics V3, and there's an article entitled "Phased Verticals with Continuous Phase Control" by KZ3K (Peter Anderson). The article details the use of a frequency-a
I've got a rope over a branch of a pine tree at 95 feet. This tree is in a forest with a bunch of other trees, not very open at all. I previously was using four elevated (about 10 feet) radials, base
Anyone in the Whistler BC area need help for a multi effort, or anyone willing to let me operate for the Stew this weekend? Brian N9ADG _______________________________________________ Topband mailing
Report from near Seattle, Washington -- Last night, signals from the EU were favoring a 60' inverted "L" running up the side of a fir tree. Too much noise (s7 to s8 roar) on the 135' balloon wire, an
Perhaps during every 'even' hour, domestic stations count, while during every 'odd' hour, only non-continental contacts (or perhaps non-same-country) stations are counted? There were a bunch of times
The Seattle area was favored with some nice propagation this evening; I saw the DX Cluster heating up for the East coast as we were sitting down for dinner, and after I got the kids tucked into bed,
perhaps many have heard about the windstorm here in the Seattle area -- about 1 million utility customers don't have power in the Seattle area, mostly in the King County area. I'm one of the powerles
I (still) have a large quantity of these cores obtained when they were 'shed' from a local manufacturer of HF equipment when they outsourced their manufacturing. These are the Fair Rite 2843000202, w
Hi everyone, the last couple of days (wasn't on 160 for a couple of weeks before now, could be longer), I'm hearing an S9 "something" on 1826.67 or so... is anyone else hearing it? I have placed a 1.
I'm feeling a little sheepish about this -- the noise turned out to be a brand-new, recently installed USB to Serial converter, hooked to a rig no less (not THE rig though!). Perhaps there's a DC-DC
I worked late last evening, unfortunately arriving home late (0530z) to the party going on between 1.800 and 1.850 Mhz. Fortunately, there was enough 'punch' left to put Vlad ER4ER into the log (a ne
Does anyone know offhand what inductors were selected (the off the shelf Hi-Q inductors, about 55uH, Q of 70-75) for the intra-band 80m filters used for VP6DX? The article is here: http://www.ncjweb.