At several locations in the past, I've used 450 ohm ladder line, and never had any problems with RFI at 100 watts. How about at 500 watts ? We're on a small lot and I have had multiple dipoles up fed
Ok, thanks Tom. I have the twinlead setup now and am having no problems at all with RFI at the 500 watt level. I had used this setup many times in the past at 100 watts with good success. Although it
using a Johnson Matchbox. This I just went to this type of setup myself. The thing I need to check and see how much bandwidth I get with it before needing to touch it up. Of course, this would only
My lot is a little bigger then yours Jerry, but I have ran into the same situation. I would cut for 80m, and you say you have 80ft to work with. You can bend the ends and try to keep them at right an
Right, it depends on what you are looking for. If you are looking for DX on 80m, a vertical is the way to go. If you are talking reigonal, then the dipole/inv vee is the way to go. Mike - K9MI with a
Right or wrong, I use flux from RS on my soldering jobs. Put it on the pl 259, heat it up, clean it off with alcohol and should have no trouble having solder stick to the connector. I just use this o
I wonder if we are talking about RF in the shack, or if we are talking about RF'ing devices in the house? If we are talking about RF'ing devices in the house, then heighth and the distance away from
Last year, my son (who lived next door) and I both went to DSL, as it was the only high speed option at the time. I was running 100 watts, and would disrupt both our DSL connects. Of course, they wou
Carlos, I would say to put the tribander low. Not certain exactly what antennas you have, but I would imagine the tribander is the heavier/larger of the 2 antennas. Mike - K9MI on for http://www.anwi
I don't have any experience with 40m yagis, so I can't answer that one. The only practial experience is that our radio club uses a large tribander, and a 4 el 6 meter beam probably 8-10ft spacing, on
Tom, maybe that was a typo? I see 100x150 feet in your message. 150 feet is of course plenty of room for a full sized 80m dipole/inverted vee. My experience is, yes there is a big difference in perfo
Thanks Tom... I thought I had been doing something wrong all the years that I had ran ladder line to a single 80m dipole. I use all coax fed antennas now. But back when we were renting, and I couldn'