Someone needed directions to Bouvet: Go south to to Tierra del Fuego and turn left. Watch for it on the right. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Tierra+del+Fuego+Province,+Argentina/Bouvet+Island/@-53
Sure enough. It wasn't any time recently, then? 73 - Mark N5OT Last time, they thought it was a UFO! Dad made me take it down then. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _________________ Searchable Archives:http:/
Can anybody loan me a stick so I can poke my own eyes out instead of continuing to read this ongoing thread? Thanks in advance, Mark N5OT _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.
Hi Roy - you mean for 160 meters? I think there are plenty of credible ways to cobble odd pieces of tower together to make a useful antenna, especially if climbing it is never something you need to
I can relate the same story here. The power company guy came by, I showed him what direction it was coming from, he went to the nearest pole with a lightning arrestor in that direction (a little ove
This has got to be on a case-by case basis. I don't have any listening antennas, so i listen on my transmit vertical. It works fine. For me. Most of the time. Would I hear more stuff with listeni
Steve - just a note to say thanks for this resource. I have enjoyed going through stuff on your channel as I figure out how I'm going to do the RX antennas at my new location. Your contribution to
This is a really good answer. Thanks Tim. 73 - Mark N5OT On 7/29/2019 7:12 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: Terry, I strongly encourage you to put up the K9AY. By no numerical measure is it the best. But its ea
Plastic bottles are the coil form of choice on DXpeditions. Excellent. Mark N5OT Here is picture of coil I made to tune Inv. L at 9Y4 with 15-20 Ohm impedance. It was tuned in 2 steps: 1. calculate
Greetings topband contesters, If you like 160 then you already know this weekend is ARRL's annual 160 meter bedlam. I had the pleasure of writing about it last year in QST: https://contests.arrl.org/
One BOG was very low. I'm thinking BOGs are low by definition, but that's probably not what you were talking about :-) Tony, to confirm that the busted ferrite is the actual reason your BOG is low, d
In my head this is becoming "101 uses for old network cable" which is great because I've got a ton of it coiled up neatly and set aside but not thrown away :-) Thanks topbanders. Still working on th
Bill, you might check with your wife. I bet she is cleaning the dryer's filter every time she uses it which might explain why you can't find the hash. 73 - Mark N5OT Have you tried to do anything ab
Yeah. I don't claim to be a radial expert but I do claim to have a lot of experience working other stations on 160 meters. My buddy W9RE told me on a DXpedition once that he built a dipole laying on
falling along its length (1000 ft) - and the antennas keep working. Strange as it sounds, (living where I live and all that), sometimes during an ice storm all you really want to do is get on the ai
Hi Pete, I have a PILE of experience with K9AY loops, but I don't use them in the usual "one-support-two-loops-four-directions" configuration. Mine are all individual loops on individual supports de
Wait. There's such a thing as an "accodion inductor"? I thought I knew everything. I'll be glad when mowing season is over, too. 73 - Mark N5OT Gud to hear Luke, Dennis and Adrian coming through so
When I was a kid, we had a guy WB6ZKK who touted dipoles made of slinkys. I am thinking some of the same electronic theory and design must have come into play. Tree will remember. Long live the old
Okay then, who was making dipoles out of slinkys? Barbed wire is not germane to a discussion of either accordion inductors or Tornado Tuners. Back on topic, I re-read K9YC's presentation about 160 m
Been There Done That You might want to figure the weight of what you have to lift. One would think it was, like, duh, you make a wire vertical and fill a balloon full of helium and ... but it turns