Hello all (and my first post since joining the discussion group) I never thought of this but this help in translating is just one more thing ham radio is good. Terry KI7M -- Original Message -- Thank
Hello Guys, I have been give a bunch of CATV RG-6 coax like the cable company uses. I would like to know if the coax with a solid support (messenger) wire will work alright for building beverages? It
Hi folks, I put up my first beverage recently. It's about 550-600 feet of 17 gauge electric fence wire running to the north about 6-7 feet high. Not terminated right now but using a beverage transfor
Hi Mike and the group, Oh, the reason the antenna is going to the north is that it's the most convinenant direction to run my first beverage. I also tried some RG-11 (also scrap from some CATV compan
Talking about poor propagation, FWIW I have been concentrating on 40 and 80 meters SSB for quite sometime now. Staying up till 0:800 or 09:00 Zulu on 80 meters listening to K2RR and others work the t
Did something happen or did I do something wrong? This is the first TowerTalk message I've seen since yesterday at 5:18PM? Terry KI7M That software has a conversion utility from S11. Except that S11
Hello Dave and Group, I had responded directly to Martin and will include my comments to him. Right now I hesitate to pull the tape off the coax at the XFRM but will do that ASAP to check it out. Whe
Hi Lee, The only thing I've noticed are some pops going on some of the receive antennas that I think may be an electric fence or some power line arcing. They are about 1-2 seconds apart. I see them s
Thanks to all, I have just swapped out the coax with new RG-6 and it makes a world of difference. On 160 mtrs there isn't hardly anything to judge by since signals if they are there are so low. I tri
Hi, Thanks for stating the rules. I believe the (a) basically means if you move from one state to another within your country your DXCC is still valid and you don't have to start over. I would not wa
Someone suggested a 5 second pause on the webSDR. I think that would be a reasonable thing to do and let people know when someone is using a relays station. Also, could help when using the webSDR to
Well I guess I had to find out what all the fuss was about so I went on line and tried some of these European webSDR's. Just worked OK2RZ and YT1AA. Also heard I5ZSS. Using the SDR it's like shooting
Hi Nick and the group, Nick, I was running a KW to my inv-V at 100'. Far as I know they don't use SDR's. It was an interesting experiment and later around 08:00Z I did manage to work G4AMN, EI6S and
The communication act of 1934 has be 'amended', changed, whatever a few years back by congress. I think it was on behalf of the NSA and CIA or homeland security. (always hated that 'homeland security
Hi guys, Even though my main focus is on 80 and 40 mtrs right now I thought I'd throw this out to see what other thought. My hy-gain Hy-tower is using 14 gauge electric fence wire for radials. Most o
Hi guys, I see nothing wrong with working someone you have had more than one contact with before. At least as long as there are not people trying to work an ATNO. But that is where my rub comes from.
Hi Folks, I've decided to get serious and try to put up an 80 meter 4-Square around my 117' tower of Rohn 55. Getting into my place can be a VERY SERIOUS CHALLENGE to any tandem rig so that may make
I listened a bit on 40 and 80 mtrs last night and the night before on SSB. I thought conditions were practically non-existent on 80 especially. 40 wasn't much better. Turned the radio off again and w
Anyone got any idea what is going on with DXwatch side? Haven't been able to pull it up for two days and had to shift to DXSummit.fi. Personally, I hope it will be back on for this weekends 160M CQ S