I have a similar array, and it is a killer. It is sharp and delivers huge amounts of gain. Mine is at 120 ft. I love how it plays. K1WHS On 12/19/2016 10:44 PM, Herb Krumich via VHFcontesting wrote:
I remember seeing one at the NEVHF Conference a few years back. Gain was low at about 4- 5 dBd but at 900 MHz the main lobe started to have a double lobe out front. Not good and reduced the gain ther
More data.... We ran a similar test using a rover station 4 element 50 MHz yagi at 12-14 ft vs a halo at 35 ft. This was a real test and not a quick exchange during a contest. The path was about 280
LO drift is a big problem. One of the underlying reasons for the results you have seen is the quality of the crystals that are being supplied to the transverter manufacturers. Parts that were tested
If I remember right, I made those four 47 element loop yagis for N2CEI and he had them at his house and actually heard CW echoes off the moon on 900 MHz with them. Later on, i think he passed them a
Hi Mr. N1BUG! I know what you are saying about 144 MHz. That has always been my favorite band from the time I heard my first signal while standing on a branch in our apple tree. My brother and I w
I was hoping to get up to my ham shack on the hill, but temps dropped overnight to the 20's and it is snowing. There is no heat up there. I am thinking that hauling gear up there today will be a losi
Hi Chet & Ron The January VHF Contest is made for trouble. That is probably the reason it has been so popular over the years. That being said, I stopped getting on VHF in 2017 after 55 years of fun a
Hello Buddy I did not resort to FT8. I did hear a bunch of stations using it, but I had all I could do to get a signal on the air. I went though a pile of old XP laptops trying to find one that worke
It might be defective. I had an SMA relay like that. As soon as the case was grounded it would short out! Dave K1WHS On 5/7/2020 6:17 PM, John D'Ausilio wrote: I've had a pair of 1P3T SMA latching r
I was quite ill in 2017 so no ham radio for that year, then 2018 and 2019 was all fly fishing for brookies and salmon, so no ham radio those years either. The fly fishing season is in full swing be
It has been a few years since I set foot in my VHF shack. The three or four years has messed up just about everything on the towers. The location is a windswept ridge, and it gets lots of wind. A f
I have been working on repairing my broken 222 MHz antenna system. The antenna was a quad yagi stack of 22 element long 222 yagis. It was a really great antenna tht produced great echoes on the hor
It isn't much of an idea, more a suggestion, to not abandon the VHF sprints when activity dies down after the initial spurt of activity. I was not a big fan of opening up chat pages for coordination
Simple fix..... 21:01 (local) RFI appears 21:01:30 Pull breaker for living room on the main circuit panel 21:01:30:04 Girls start screaming. 21:03:00 You go to living room and assess the situatio
Hi Jay, i hear you. I live on the edge of the abyss. If I turn my beam NE I see what you are talking about. There is almost zero activity in that direction. The only way I can tap into the real ac
I think the problem is that the Q of the antenna is so high that the elements cannot supply a reasonable reactance at the FT-8 frequency for the matching section to work with. The solution is to try
It is raining today. My 144 beams are thrown off by about 100 degrees from the last two bad wind events. There is no radio in the 2M position. I was hauling gear up yesterday I am not sure I can be
Hi Zack, What kind of beam is it? The old CC yagis 11 el etc. all used plated #10 hardware. The mounting hole was 0.191" or so. The element was 0.187 drawn aluminum, so it was possible for the drille
You have to consider ambient temperature as well as the straight warmup drift. Any portable operation will make things worse as the transverter adjusts to a changing ambient temperature. I run into t