Can anyone suggest the best freqs. to tune our 160m inverted-L for the CQ WW SSB contest this weekend? The antenna is a long way from the house, andt's tough to do that in the pitch dark and cold. :-
The higher you go, the easier to find and hold a run frequency. Action extends way way above 1900. There will be a couple occupied "net" frequencies along the way. When I get home tonight, my normall
Hi Mike! If this year is like other years, 160m will be filled from one band edge to the other. Yes, the lower half will have more stations operating than the upper half. 73 Lloyd - N9LB On Fri, Feb
Í would leave it alone, Mike! Your tuner or amplifier should be able to tune out that small bit of reactance, I would think! And on 160 the excess loss in the coax from a bit of VSWR is really neglig
Thanks to everyone who replied. KM1H suggested the same thing, Charlie. But since I don't have certain critical replacement parts for the amplifier and tuner (among other things), I'm kind of afraid