Dick, I have read the several posts regarding you feeding problem on 40 and 80 and hereis a simple fix. I had a similar problem with a over the counter tuner with limited impedence range. What I did
the scrap radials below chance I use #14 THWN stranded, jacketed and priced about $27.50 per 500 foot box. This wire has little value on the copper recycling market. In Puerto Rico some of the AM sta
If you have long runs of coax cable hooked to a monitor you can actually visualize the common mode ingress watching the hums bars roll across the screen. The 60 hz bar intensity may be directly rela
Quoting Chuck Sudds <chuck@dxham.net>: Chuck, Presuming the total length will be 500-600 feet, and as such the end pattern nose is broad, the bend may cause a slight pattern skew. But since your inte
Quoting Mike Kroh <mkroh@bendbroadband.com>: Mike, A quick way to significantly improve the DX performance of an inverted "L" is to change the top to a "T" configuration with equal flat top on each s
Quoting Jerry Keller - K3BZ <k3bz@arrl.net>: length if possible. There is a military version of this design with three wires against a three wire mirror counterpoise and it is call a "crowsfoot". Mor
Topbanders, I have purchased a DX-engineering RBS Reversible Beverage System but have waited over a month for 600 feet of ladder line from another vendor. I plan to install this antenna to fill in so
Quoting Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>: NAB conventions to a packed audience of broadcast "engineers", wealthy station owners and consultants that should know better! But as the man said "Hope sprin
Quoting Doug Waller <NX4D@comcast.net>: I would think that a biased diode would do a better job of being more suited to all conditions and frequencies. This would not work if the terminating resistor
Quoting N1BUG <paul@n1bug.net>: Paul, you might consider having the telco line buried from the pole to the house. Both flooded and armoured cable is availble for this purpose from most telco companie
Quoting Stephen Reichlyn >> in the middle of the square. It is a 3 story house built out of wood. Steve, A low profile single story ranch house might be workable. However, IMHO it would depend on so
Jeff Maass" <jmaass@columbus.rr.com> Re: Your concern for lack of JA path to PJ2.......>> During the 48-hours of CQWW CW, the PJ2T Multi-Multi >> operation logged 1043 QSOs in 24 Zones and 91 Countri
Quoting Tree <tree@kkn.net>: Tree, With Jeff, VY2ZM, up in the Canadian tundra and during the winter grey line able to string Euro's during their daylight my only hope of even getting close to him an
John, If it were up to me you should have 10 points for your persistence and another 10 for making it through the null on the NW Beverage I was using. Yes the ARRL Rules are slanted for allowing each
Quoting Earl W Cunningham <k6se@juno.com>: Earl, My contest logging program will not even let me log the xero point ON4UN contact as it is considered a DX-DX contact and thus forbidden. He may need i
Quoting Ford Peterson <ford@cmgate.com>: Great! Is this not a excellent demo of good spectrum utilization even under weak signal conditions? Brilliant!!!! especially if the opening is at local sunris
Quoting Tree <tree@kkn.net>: Good point Tree! I will think of this often during the Stew Perry Challenge while transmitting Morse from my Colpitts MOPA into my Marconi while listening intently for si
I used the ARRL VHF section of the CT version 10.0.2 which allowed for the easy logging of contacts replete with the required grid square. At the conclusion of the contest I initiated the "WRITEARRL"
Quoting Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>: Since you raised the subject..."using something that is already there", please add this this one to the try anything and remember what works, catagory. One da
Quoting Jim Kearman <jkearman@att.net>: Yes that is so true. And for the nostalgia buffs, I started in 1954 as WN0VXO with a metal 6L6 on a baking pan and a S-38. With my paper route money I was able