W6NV, and AC6DD. The other big guns mostly use K3s, and are a lot cleaner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w_RuN5xktg contest. In fact, I contacted AC6DD about this issue two years ago when he was
KA1J writes on Sat Jan 26 15:04:13 EST 2013 he replied immediately, he was much, much stronger. It could be that his amp warmed up and he just turned it on that second he replied but that seems unli
In the early 90's N6KB and I tried a 5/8 wl Vertical on 160m. It was a wire vertical supported by a helium balloon and spaced several hundred feet from a permanent 1/4 wl Vertical. Both antennas had
At the time my source for antenna projects were the Bill Orr Books, and the 5/8 Vertical idea came from the "All About Vertical Antennas" Book. Getting 3dB with some wire and a balloon sounded prett
?????? --Original Message-- monopole compared to a 1/4-wave monopole refer only to the maximum fields they radiate, NOT to the fields they radiate at __all__ elevation angles. Those maximum fields al
Sure, over perfect ground the 5/8 wl has 3db more gain at 0 degrees elevation.. You are talking about theoretical gain. I am talking about real world experience. Even if you have access to a locatio
and pattern beam width? Peter, We did not measure any angles, I was barely getting started on 160m at the time, and was more interested in putting up a good antenna for the Contest. The radiation pa
I was doing some e-mail follow up on 160m QSL's sent and not received. One of them was for YE1C. I assume others might be needing this QSL, so here is some information. The new manager is YE1NZ. Thi
Very interesting that I was just thinking about this. I have been contemplating maybe going to TNC connectors. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with them as far as durability. Most of my p