Hello Jorge, The common 4sq orientation in the eastern U.S. is 45/135/225/315 degrees. That simply is to put the best pattern on Europe at 45 degrees. With your directions to Europe and the USA you w
There is a rather stern W7EL caution in the EZNEC doc about using two ground media. He particularly nixes using the inner media as sea water to mimic a high conductive surface. --(EZNEC doc)-- "Using
Hi Jim, I must respectfully disagree. And warn any reader that using NEC ground media to simulate a conductive roof is a very troubled procedure with significant issues. Using the first media to simu
No. You'd be missing the essential point which has to do with the "shape" of the tool and whether it was remotely suited to the problem. The best estimate of NEC applied to this problem, even with a
Not really a problem for 160. Solar minimum is a solar minimum is a solar minimum. In the last solar minimum a certain well known multi-multi in one of the major CW DX tests did a single weekend five
I note that it is for single op assisted only. CQ is not the first to do this. Stew Perry has allowed this for a while now. The rule thus far has not been withdrawn from the Stew. The effect may be t
The amount of MF radio garbage that is running around common mode on power lines, phone lines, metallic pipes, etc, is pretty amazing. I've walked around with my battery K2 listening next to power po
I seem to recall that one of the arguments against soldering ground rod attachments was that a lightning strike would first evaporate the solder and then burn the connection. This would create a peri
It would really be something if in-the-slab copper was floating electrically. I have seen the copper connected with a heavy wire out of the slab connected to the ground bus in the main electrical pan
This is why the subject of this thread needs to be checked/rectified/inspected through the eyes of a local licensed electrician and local electrical inspectors, so that local additions to or variatio
Gotta vote loudly with Frank on this one. I had to throw away 480 feet of balanced "window" line (Wireman 554) that ran elevated from my tractor shed to the base of my 3/8 wl 160 inverted L over FCP.
Hi, Robb The antenna will still need some kind of counterpoise, one possibility being radials. Radials are not the only form of counterpoise. An alternative useful to this specific case is an FCP, sh
It is precisely because of the weak QRP signal that one should either wait out the beginning of the contest, or better, if you aren't further disadvantaged by running a disadvantaged antenna with you
Indeed. The thing to remember is that the calling frequencies are intended for lean QSO times, as in weekday afternoons and evenings so that those looking for QRP can find them, or those calling can
Spring Stew Perry. That's neat. Should really just be called the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter Stew Perry. None of them a "test" version. All of them one gets in there and does it as a regular con
OK, I understand that, but I didn't pick the name. I think the participation from down under has more to do with the propagation and noise issues from the seasonal reversal, plus the time difference
The Stew Perry contest is one of the better ones but I agree with Larry and Does sound concerned, nice, fair, decent, honorable, etc. But... We already have the winter Stew and a warm-up Stew. Have h
When you say "NOT work", you probably need to specifically list the diminished performance attribute due to more conductive media underneath. It is very easy to model a BOG over more conductive media
It's interesting to see people complaining about general contest issues when the thread is specifically about the Stew Perry. Some clearly are clueless about the Stew Perry format. All one has to do
Not arguing at all with your "why" that goes with diminished performance. Just pointing out that it's not an on-off switch but a diminishment to a BOG that can still be useful with amplification and