I live on an average sized city lot here in Washington, DC -- 40 x 140 feet (1/8 acre). For the CQWW 160 contest, I had three EWE's, one each running W, S, and NE. I fed them with RG-59 and used 'sta
The simple answer is yes! I live in Washington, DC on a 1/8 acre lot, bordered by power/telephone feeders and within eyeshot from my roof of more transmitters from lowband through microwaves (the "if
Give me a couple days to get things together and I'll post the details here. Those that want pictures may have to wait a bit longer. Eric W3DQ Washington, DC I wrote: The simple answer is yes! I live
A quick note of thanks to George, W8UVZ for letting me come (on very late notice) to the Dayton Topband dinner, W2GD and southern NJ crew for the ride, K9AY for the dinner conversation, AA1K for LOTS
At a recent PVRC meeting, an interesting method for laying down lots of radials for a vertical. Instead of cutting each radial individually and attaching each piece to the vertical section, this tech
I suspect thisi sn't an issue, but I'm in the process of putting up some EWE's over a significantly sloping urban backyard, and was wondering whether it makes a difference if the horizontal wire is p
As I seem to have gotten my EWE's and transmit antenna to workl, I expect to be on from that rare multiplier... the District of Columbia (DC). My daughter's 13th birthday is this weekend, so my time
My EWE's didn't work worth a !@#$% during the CQ 160 cotest, so I'm looking for help. I'm using KD9SV boxes and RG-59 -- no run is longer than 100 ft. I've used Gary's preamps and an ICE 135B preamp.
Thanks for all your comments on my RX antenna (EWE) issues. It's clear that they are too close to the TX antenna, an inverted-L with 21 radials. Almost everyone said the tx antenna needed to be de-co
I use a 160 inverted L, approx 65ftx65ft, with 21 radials. It's a vertical wire supported by a tee branch, not a tower. I'd like to make this antenna useable on 80m too, and have read ON4UN's latest
I am about to put up a couple of flag antennas in my back yard (one running 50 degrees, the other at 330 degrees, with a common support for the back end). I *thought* I needed to use non-conductive m
GM3SEK's "In Practice" column in the July, 2005 issue of RadCom (from the Radio Society of Great Britain) is all about low-inductance resistors. In answering the question "Are metal-film power resist
Living in Washington, DC, I am killed by intermod and other crud on 160. I live 5.5 miles from a 50 kw AMer on 1500 kHz. I've been working with Jim Poll on this filter, and have an engineering model
Am hoping to put up a couple of pennants this week or weekend. I have access to a couple of transformer boxes and noticed something that to me (the non-engineer), at least, is interesting if not conf
I am putting up two Pennants in by small city lot (140x40). The size of the lot is forcing me to put them nose-to-feed as below: Feed --Nose Feed / N ^ / / / / / / / / / Nose The distance between the
Jeff -- I finally got the first pennant (firing NE) up in my city lot. I had to change the configuration from vertical feed to nose (point) feed, and because the masts are farther apart than I'd like
While I've gotten my RX antennas up in time for the CQ160 contest, I won't have the fabulous (beats s *every* other filter by a long shot) WB5WPA's AM Brickwall Filter for the CQ160 test -- I fried i
As I read about and look at pictures of those Beverage antenna farms, I can't even imagine what it's like to be in such a quiet RF environment. Someone asked "how bad is it in the city?" For those wh
Looks like I won't be able to complete my RX antenna work until the topband season ends. As I'd like to take the opportunity to assemble and test the antennas before the next season comes upon us, I'
The tree climber guy will be coming around soon. The plan is to have him put in lag screws with pulleys attached on the trunk of the trees (70-90 feet, although I'm not sure that's how he'll be able