It doesn't embarrass me at all. Once you have done all you can to improve your rx within reason, then run all the power you can. If the other station can't put a signal into my QTH I can copy then t
Why don't you nail or screw a cross piece of needed length to the top of each post, and screw a threaded porcelain standoff insulator so it sticks up on each end. You can find them at hamfests. They
I don't know the DX Eng. product. Usually "wider bandwidth" means flatter vswr curve at the load. There are right and wrong ways to achieve this. Right: wider driven radiator. Wrong: few radials or
I went out into the parking lot at work at 1:15 p.m. Central Time and tried listening with my car radio to 650, 750 and 1510. I am about 40 miles west of Chicago. With the car omni directional antenn
If you have enough radials at or below ground you won't need a common mode choke. You don't say if your inverted L will have an elevated ground system or not. If the ground system consists of 60 or m
Unless you like listening to noise you don't use an inverted L on 160 (or 80) for receiving. Rob K5UJ _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
I discovered my rx antennas worked much better if my tx antenna was completely disconnected from the station. Most coaxial relays or T/R switches only break the center conductor. That's not good enou
I used a P&B open frame relay 4PDT but a single throw will work. What's important is that the relay use metal other than steel (or other magnetic metal) for the RF path. The P&B PM17DY satisfies thi
Posting for Rudi R.A. Hi Rob, I tried to post this infor regarding the latest strongest solar storm since 12 years. Unfortunately I can not post it as my email is not known. Could you please load it
Actually the problem with the alleged QRM and FT8 is more about simply identifying ham computerized modes of digital transmission and reception and separating them out from the rest of the noise gene
Don't let noise stop you from transmitting. Nope, I am on a 50 x 100 foot lot in town. Try getting a pair of small rx loops, two rotators, and a phasing network. I have two pesky noise sources from
multi-tower array performance when using insulated radial wire versus uninsulated wire when using a bus wire at the radial overlap points. Since his worked in the 1950s mostly focused on directional
A 180 or 190 degree vertical radiator presents a few different problems compared to one 90 degrees long, due to the high voltage at the feedpoint. You can have ground loss there, but since it is more
I found I had to put a relay in the feedline to my inverted L to completely open the line on rx. Your typical "coax relay" only opens the center conductor. Fortunately on 160 m. an open frame relay t
1. You never use an inverted L or other vertical for receiving, unless maybe, you are in a QTH so remote and noise free it might work. But in-town, forget it. 2, From my experience, 7 or 8 out of 10
Suggest that for Hawaii or other locations where you want specific soil data, contact local small AM or walk in and ask to talk to C.E. Big corp. owned stations will give corporate hq. run around. bz
for permanent installation it's a waste of time because thin wire steel mesh (chicken fence mesh) will rust away in most ground in a short time. Recommend copper mesh but professionally it only seems
I respectfully suggest the Baker Is. dxpedition be postponed for a few years until band condx improve. It makes no sense to me to mount this costly undertaking to a limited access location when propa
FB on the new call, but is this all you get? Don't they mail out something on paper? Rob K5UJ _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband