While air variables certainly do flash over, the effect is sudden, and has no "ramping up" effect. From Dale's original post: "The problem I having is that when transmitting the SWR goes up with powe
I agree about the padding caps, good addition. I know of instances of both, fixed caps with insufficient current rating, and the balun insufficient for 160m blocking. If the caps were starting cold,
Just to point out that there is NO one-size-fits-all PHYSICAL length for BOG best f/b. There is an ELECTRICAL length that far better defines it. And the electrical length of a fixed length of wire va
Is this threads subject material really just whining? Well, FT8 does some really good things that typical CW operation doesnt usually want to bother with. 1) use of a calling frequency (SSB carrier f
Im glad that rule is gone from the ARRL 160. THEORETICALLY that should have worked. What I observed year over year was that the ** DX ** didnt use it that much. Not altogether sure why. I suspect tha
I heard the 7Q7 call sign here in NC exactly once, of course at the tippy top of a long QSB cycle, which then immediately dove into the noise not to be heard again in the 30 minutes before I had to g
As a lifetime true-blue dyed-in-the-wool statistical wonk, this solar cycle presentation is the statistical equivalent of Jascha Heifitz playing the violin. We always have to wait and see how things
Hi Nick, I have a limited setup, only an inverted L over an FCP on 160 (not like W3LPL's 160m 4 square cannon). With basically no time to operate, I managed about 60 minutes in three spells on 160m,
Over really good dirt there isnt too much difference. The other problem is that the NEC ground approximation coding usually underestimates loss. This is because the ground approximation in the model
I dont at all doubt Rogers reports. The grind comes when others attempting Roger's successful methods report terrible results. There is clearly something going on not at all well understood. There ar
Hi Jamie, That will be the contest sponsor's call, whose decision is final. Nor is the sponsor required to explain decisions of this nature. Any explanation would be the sponsor's choice. Nor do the
Hi Rick, There is no problem modeling an FCP. You do have to do the parallel wires a certain way thats documented in EZNEC since 1997 (version 2). What do you perceive to be the issue? 73, Guy K2AV -
Hi Rick, An answer to Rick and some number of others with inquiries off reflector.... Ill mount a downloadable .EZ file of a basic L over FCP on k2av.com sometime this week, along with some text, and
I would have to know just exactly how your "Ground R" was constructed to comment. The two EZNEC variables for ground description are dielectric constant and conductance. Also there is a lot depending
A counterpoise is what we do when the full size of a double-ended antenna, dipole, OCF, etc is too large for us to build, maintain, etc. Very simply, we want to jam the energy from the shield of our
Hi, Roger It sure seems like a lot of confusion arises when folks attempt concise electrical and mathematical thoughts and calculations using words with very broad and fuzzy definitions. Words like r
Was recently talking on 160 to one of my G3 acquaintances at his dawn. He was apparently hearing me quite nicely. I gave him an honest, accurate RST 289. Maybe closer to 189. In between rapidly recur
I havent run a model on a hytower recently but helped one soul out of a quandary with one a while back. Items that required attention: 1) Coax connection SO239 at base and its mounting device metal,
Thanks, Tree. Note that in the *summer* Stew this year, as of this post the high scorer is K1LT who was running LOW power. Ya just never know..... 73, Guy K2AV _________________ Searchable Archives:
In the pulley snag conundrum, I found that the small marine grade stainless steel, ball bearing pulleys would handle the black sheathed 3/16 in parachute cord style rope and never a snag. They also p