Something I have come to realize on 160 meters from Northwest South Carolina is how valuable the skewed path is to me. The past couple of weeks, and most noticeably during the CQ 160 SSB contest, I n
My 160m base insulated tower (120ft) is series fed. I knew that I would run into "issues" when I added a 2el 40m yagi up on top along with feedline, rotator and the associated cables. An "isolator" w
Well, I staked out a spot on 1834 around 0225Z waiting for Aki to show up at his sunrise just like the e-mails from you guys said he would. Lo and behold, someone starts CQing for USA at around 0230
Conditions on 160m last night and early Saturday morning were about as strange as I have ever heard them. Conditions to the West coast of the U.S. were extremely poor and almost non-existent from my
Has anyone considered the fact that DX will most likely pick a receive frequency that will most likely be occupied by the numerous ragchewers that live above 1843? These are the guys with low dipoles
Conditions were unusually good this morning on the lowbands! Glad I got up early to look for A35VK. Everyone was unusually loud here in SC. Worked the following as each one CQed. ( something to be sa
Hello to all! I am going to put up a KLM 40M2 2 element linear loaded 40m yagi (16 foot boom) on the top of my Rohn 25 1/4wl 160m vertical in the next couple of weeks.The tower is 115 feet high with
This has been a very poor season for JAs on 160m. Yesterday I heard JA0MVW CQing but the best I could do was get an "agn" a couple of times. I called CQ on 1822 and was answered by JA1CGR according t
Hello to all, I spent a good portion of Saturday putting up a 500 ft East/West beverage and laying out 16 more radials to the 1/4wl tower vertical. I recorded the SWR changes after adding radials in
XU7ACB was Q5 copy this morning on my SW beverage @ around 1120z. I called numerous times and heard a few QRZs and ? I but was having problems with the key clicks, etc. from the pileup on 1828.7 for
Hello to all, I finally found the time to add the final set of radials to the 1/4wl tower vertical(122ft). I recorded the SWR changes after adding radials in groups of four. Here is what I was seeing
Ditto here as Tom says below. I seriously doubt that any malice is intended by anyone sending their grid square at the end of their e-mail along with their call and name. Is this any different than l
I finally found the time to complete the 160m project this past weekend. Here is what I wound up with: -115 feet of Rohn 25 base insulated with a commercial system insulator -8 feet of aluminum mast
I want to add another 18 radials to my vertical to get it to 48. I have been using 12 and 14 au thnn insulated copper purchased locally in rolls of 500 feet. Anyone know where I can get something sim
I am curious to hear from anyone who has a Rohn 24/45 base insulated 1/4wl 160m vertical on the air. How does it compare to previous antennas you had for 160m? The last 60 of the 120 ft will be going
Author: n4uk@mindspring.com (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:32:45 +0100
I didn't think I'd have much use for a due North beverage either until I put up an un-terminated beverage North-South thinking more about CE0 and South America but when I started listening on it to E
Well, all 115 feet of the base insulated Rohn 25 tower is up with guys at the 30,60 and 90 foot levels.Each guy has 24 inches of grip before the ceramic insulator is inserted. First measurements were
Got on topband last night around 10:00 PM and was greeted to the best lowband conditions I have ever experienced. There were 5 different UA6/3 stations CQing in and around the window with a few of th
I am soliciting comments on comparisons between shunt fed towers and full size 160m verticals. I presently have a 75 foot shunt fed tower with 24 elevated radials on 160m. I am pondering putting up 1
I heard at least 5 different JA calls this morning but only managed to work JA1HQT and another Ja whose call I can't recall at this moment (ssi/sni?). I seem to be hearing better than I'm being heard