The ones I have seen came sealed in a little plastic baggie with a piece of paper (instructions) in it. The baggie made sure you got all the parts. Who you get them from? 73, Guy --. .-.. Guy Olinger
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 01:37:15 -0700
Actually it took quite a while to run down the instructions, was hard to figure out where to go from their home page. To save the rest a bit of trouble, go see ... and print. http://www.timesmicrowav
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 21:40:54 -0400
Ameritron uses them in both tuners and amps. You might want to inquire from their tech support number. We used to call the stuff "coil stock". Could buy it in ten or five inch lengths in various wire
First, the only one who REALLY knows about a WARC 2/2 over a C36XR is Tom at Force 12. Send him an email. There's a reason for that...in general this combo question involves transmitting on 15 or 12
TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE idea. DON'T do it. GUARANTEED to destroy both tower and chimneys in a big windstorm, and probably do a lot of damage to the roof below. Chimneys are designed to set on their own we
I found that the best approach was to use the mininec ground and place a resistive load at the ground end which can be varied. You may find that anything in a range behaves mostly the same or complet
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:06:45 -0700
You probably should have had the two connected all along. Since the tower is parallel to the inverted L's vertical run, you must consider the tower closely coupled. You will have been inducing curren
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:16:19 -0700
For dipoles, typical yagis, etc, the resonance of an antenna is the frequency(s) where the feed impedance at the antenna is non-reactive. At that point the resistance may or not be 50 ohms. Then if i
Chimneys are notoriously bad places to mount antennas, be that TV or ham or ... Unless the condition of the chimney is new, and it is built very robustly, chimneys have been taken down by ice and win
Truthfully, a large tribander up on a mast will exert a considerable force sidewise in a 75 mph wind. If you have properly sized the mast for such an antenna even in a minimal wind zone, the vertical
I know of instances where the smaller wire (#4) was vaporized by a direct strike. In one case the destruction was underground, and the ham in question was without a ground for his tower until he was
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:38:54 -0400
I have a favorite belt hanging in the garage that I used on towers at W4KXV and W4BVV in the 60's. I can't bear to throw it away. But for the upcoming tower work, I ordered a new body harness, etc, f
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:57:58 -0400
As referred to in another post I made, the loyal contingent at PVRC located a picture of some hundreds of blackbirds parked on his yagis. Check out http://users.erols.com/n3rr/photos/birds.jpg Is it
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:10:49 -0400
The grounding relays certainly do a lot, at the point where the remote switchbox goes. Good first line of defense -- probably enough for a lot of induced pulses. They will take care of the static fro
...snip... (Yuk, yuk, sniggle, snort) Amen... All the polyphaser aside (and yes, I know who wrote "backward-zap"), and after all the delicate care I will take to minimize known and understandable lig
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:11:28 -0400
My take on .... The idea is seriously flawed that the ground path somehow invalidates the measurements, using the protocol specified in the comparison report. The root assumptions of the modelling wi
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:28:15 -0400
Hi, all. I suppose that all of the material that could be abstractly related to this comparison would be a book. Practically, though, do they actually bear on the case in point, with a large enough e
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:38:33 -0400
I would agree if one attempted to do this on a single antenna. But this is a COMPARISON, and all are equally subject to the same attenuations. It is remarkable is it not, that they all really came u
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:56:50 -0400
Michael (W4EF) is a good representative of the commentary from one of the major viewpoints about the tri-bander comparison. Expresses himself and the major complaints very well. I just don't agree to
Author: Guy Olinger, K2AV" <k2av@qsl.net (Guy Olinger, K2AV)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:51:30 -0400
No. Certainly not. The one you mention below was actually contained in the booklet. You think perhaps I disagree with you because I don't understand what you write? Actually I have found your writin