I live in southern Wisconsin, clay soil, and have been using the modern Oatey brand "No Lead" plumbing solder for all outdoor soldering. I've been using the Oatey plumbing solder ( sold by Home Depot
Hi Tod! Thanks for the data. I'd like to build up several toroid chokes for 160, 80 and 40 meter use. I looked at the Fair-Rite site, no 31 material. I looked at their vendors and went to Amidon ...a
Hi Ken! I had a 42 vertical tuned for 160, worked awful! A random "long wire" run from my first floor window to near the tower top then onto / into a ~30 foot tree and back to the peak of the root at
N9LB 2011 ARRL 160 Contest SOLP 100 watts, 60 ft vertical, 60 radials. This is the first year that I've operated in the ARRL 160 contest. By the time I got home on Friday and had something to eat, an
Hi Allen and every else! Allen, thanks for the contact! I worked many of the ops on this e-mail reflector. This was my first Stew Perry contest. Great contest, and my only disappointment was that I n
Hi Dan! I use #12 solid solid copper THHN "house wire" - around here Menards has the best price, HD has gotten very expensive in the last year. I strip the insulation off with a little jig I made uti
I tried to donate, PayPal comes back with "Sorry ? your last action could not be completed" Apparently the link is tied to some else's account. Lloyd - N9LB The PayPal link to donate to sending Sasha
Thanks Tony, Thanks Jerry, That link works, and I contributed, I hope others will too. 73 Lloyd - N9LB I believe the correct PayPal page for donations to send Sasha home is https://www.paypal.com/cgi
I was involved in broadcast engineering for many years ( probably one of the reasons for my interest in 160m and AM ). There were numerous technical write ups about stations who wanted the maximum th
Hi Jake! I tried this and it worked - sort of... I have a 60 foot tower gamma-matched for 60, 80 and 160 meters with a stack of VHF/UHF antennas on the top. Coax lines for the VHF antennas are tied t
I have the same problem with a 50KW FM station a couple of miles away affecting my Palstar ZM-30. It is useable on the rig side of an antenna tuning unit, but most of my antennas are self resonate th
Hi Bob! I used the OQSL service a few days after they went QRT, haven't seen any cards yet. 73 Lloyd - N9LB Am I the only person who used the OQSL service for 7O6T and have not gotten a QSL. ? I know
Hi Vladimir! Thanks for the information. Congratulations again on a great DXpedition. 73 Top band operators --Original Message-- From: hamradio-spb [mailto:hamradio-spb@yandex.ru] Sent: Saturday, Nov
Same here, LOTW has not ingested any of my uploaded logs since it "blew Up" after the CQWW-SSB and CW-Sweeps. Steve, I don't know what is going on with ARRL-LOTW as they have not uploaded a single fi
Hi David! I have this problem with my hand held antenna analyzer too. I figured out that it was picking up AM and FM ( and maybe TV ) broadcast signals and those were interfering with the readings. I
Hi Zack! I'm located in neighboring Wisconsin, running a FLEX-5000A, and a less-than-optimal 60 ft vertical. I found the secret to working HI and AK from the "black hole of the Midwest". I've been ab
I've tried doorknob caps, they get hot, drift and I've had a couple explode! I've used air variables, they work well until a bug crawls between the plates. I finally gave up and went with vacuum vari
I received a very nice 2-part QSL card for PT0S about a month ago, used their Online QSL Request Service. 73 Lloyd - N9LB I sent a $15 donation on November 30, 2012 via Pay Pal for my QSL card. I hav
A very good FREE anti-virus product is Microsoft Security Essentials: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download One option they offer is to download a boot thumb-drive o
TripLite Iso-Bar Ultra I am in need of a couple outlet strips for the shack , what is the best option out there that is not overly expensive ? Dan N8DCJ _________________ Topband Reflector __________