The 1.5 kW PEP is at the amplifier output. That has been clarified with the FCC multiple times. Tuner, feedline, antenna system losses are your problem. You are diminished by those losses unless you
It is important to understand one's adapters. An F connector in the outdoors absolutely needs help for sealing. Also the female F connector has a built-in problem which is due to its diminished size:
Hi, Jim, et al. I have AO Pro, YO, TA, etc, and run them fine under 64 bit Windows 7 & 10 using DOSBox 0.74. I did have to set some invocation parameters to get it to behave with Brian's DOS coding,
to Hi Mike, et al, This a familiar exasperation, which I can happily say was solved for myself and others. Al is correct. As for the acronym... FQDN = industry gobbledygook for "fully qualified domai
I use a neat little program called HamIC, which has a stack of little calculators, including an L network calculator. See http://www.sweetscape.com/hamic/ Having an inductive reactance below 50 ohms
Modern toys, that's what happened. But there are some emerging, very efficient antennas where the old methods can't possibly tell you enough to know what to do to tune it to an efficient spot. They h
I've had an AIM for a long time, only version 2 of the PCB. A little slow but fully functional. However it needs a separate PC. Check out a Sark 110. An AIM plus a PC, plus a smartphone battery syste
After pricing in shipping? Shipping to the store at Walmart is included, is it not? 73, Guy K2AV _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerT
Oh yeah. SWR is sooo great when everything is lossy as all getout. More and more radials will show you where it's actually tuned, for sure. As to tuning method, text on ma160v at DX Engineering says
Be careful to never, ever use THHN (with insulation NOT stripped off) outdoors. Also personally, I would never use it for RF transmission line. Do not confuse Z0 with efficiency. What part of the Z0
First of all, and most important, a joyful holiday season and a prosperous New Year to all of you. Now down to microscopic issues that will probably have no bearing on World Peace... Let's be clear t
Isn't that making the success of your station dependent on whether or not someone else is motivated and can find the time to put together an email response that you find personally convincing? 73, Gu
Really not much to learn. UV and likely outdoor wetness turned THHN into a MEASURED linear resistor at RF. What IS complicated is how so many clearly have some kind of stake in it NOT being true. Mea
That would be nice, something that can be drawn across a couple hundred feet in a walking motion. Manufacturer, model number and retail source URL?? 73, Guy K2AV _____________________________________
Stripping insulation from a 500 feet spool of #12 THHN from a big box store is easy-peasy. Once you've seen it done, you'll kick yourself in the butt for ever buying bare wire from the online stores
"Unsupported by observation" You jest? The disintegration is very much supported by measurement and observation. Those measurements, and the methods used, are recently posted on this reflector. I wou
A cadre of the NC East Chapter of PVRC, are meeting Thursday for lunch. Assuming we get enough to work the scene, and with a little luck with the weather, we should have a YouTube by the weekend. But
My **GUESS** is that it's a deterioration of the surface portions of the copper, decomposition by-products of the inner insulation, held against the copper surface for extended periods, never washed
Current betting money in my neck of the woods is on some actual deterioration of the surface of the copper caused by compounds in the degrading insulation. Skin effect forces some degree of current i
For buried radials, particularly, I would not bother to scrape the enamel off #16 enameled other than to connect and solder. Enamel is not the same thing as whatever PVC soup du Jour that is being us