Despite what some wish to believe, it is easy to put up a balanced antenna and feed it with balanced feeder. You only need construct a 1/2 wave dipole fed at the center and get it reasonably high and
When I was in the Army in the 1970s I was in the USA Communications Command. Back then we operated tactical RTTY circuits duplex with pairs of 2 - 30 MHz log periodics side by side up on tower pairs.
Tut Ward, you left out rig and manufacturer bashing, the two most popular bashing of all. Subcategories: JA gear bashing (usually by Ten Tec owners), Ten Tec bashing (by everyone else), Gap and Isotr
I've put up a couple of 50 footers on the ground. Never again. Mine were Tessos made in Canada. They are maybe the cheapest way to gain height but in my opinion, any over 20 or 30 feet are really nas
If you can find the Tesso masts, I think they are of better quality. The 50 footers I have had holes drilled on both sides for the bolt to go through so the section above would rest with the weight d
One of the things I do in my job is find things on the internet. It pays to know how to use the google suite of tools. Google Books often has partial text. Sometimes when that is all there is it is b
I don't think you understood the question. He just wants to have his hamshack in his garage. He doesn't want to remote control anything, but he wants to be able to use his rigs and antennas etc. in a
Kip, keep your fingers crossed and hope you don't get hit with a positive strike. 9.5 out of 10 are negative. Positives are in a completely different league. An order of magnitude more intense in vol
Good information here: http://www.radioworld.com/article/69646 With lighting you are dealing with probablility; not absolutes. You have to put your thinking and actions into two separate categories:
If you find yourself dealing with informal complaints about a new tower it can help to employ some psychology in your actions. When a new antenna structure first goes up, the negativity about it is a
You're never going to get the dx low angle you want with any inverted V or horizontal wire antenna on 80 meters if you are limited to 50 foot supports such as the tower you have. The problem with inv
Probably not scrap value but rather cost of replacement parts and labor to repair damage, however that still sounds real high. The news media probably botched the damage figure. If the guy had gotten
It's not like copper is unobtainium. At at least one hamfest I go to a year, there's someone selling off long bars of copper that are drilled out, sometimes tapped, for use as SPGs, radial plates, wh
yes as Dave wrote, we need to know your planned range of frequencies, needed length, and route above ground or below grade etc. Will the feedline need to be suspended in the air with no support from
The inductor generates heat; the caps do not. rob k5uj _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com
No, Rick is correct. And how many countries you have confirmed doesn't really mean anything other than you have worked (a lot of) DX. The "no. of countries," "I can work anyone I hear," "the current
Loops are over-rated unless they meet certain requirements. I tried a 75 m. 1 w.l. loop 30 feet high fed with ladder line and bal. tuner. I thougt it was great but I was comparing it to worse antenna
The MFJ analyzer is very sensitive. I've had false readings that turned out to be due to the presence of strong AC line noise. If you have a big enough antenna and the noise is strong enough, it will
instrument. Actually it puts out around 20 milliwatts. It's fairly strong for a SWR analyzer and eats the 10 AA cells if you power it with them. On my dipole with the matching network giving it 50 j