Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-08 Thread WILLIS COOKE
The secret to that is to get a big-honking-old-fashioned soldering iron to solder with.  I have one that ATT issued my FIL is about 1938 that works great.  I had to change the cord to a modern one to keep from electrocuting myself or someone else.   Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS,

Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-06 Thread george fritkin
And Phil, they did not teach me the most important thing...how to solder a PL 259 George, W6GF - Original Message - From: Paul Chebi paul.ch...@att.net To: Phil Shepard ph...@riousa.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, July 5, 2013 9:13 PM

Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-06 Thread Mike Reublin
Paul, That option is totally up to you. Go to the home page whose link is shown on the bottom of the post and set up the way you want. 73, Mike NF4L On Jul 6, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Paul Chebi paul.ch...@att.net wrote: This note is for the log/web manager. I note that each time somebody

Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-06 Thread Scott Manthe
This is a mailing list. The whole point of a mailing list is to forward email responses to previous posts. So, in a way, it is designed to clutter your inbox. You have options in the way the list sends messages to you here: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft But understand,

Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-06 Thread Dale Putnam
And that's why they invented the delete key. Have a great day, Dale - WC7S -Original Message- From: Scott Manthe scott.man...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 16:43:54 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna

Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-06 Thread Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft
See elecraft.com/elist.html for alternative list viewing pages. (Both nabble and mail-archive can view our posts sorted by subject etc.) In the interest of keeping list volume and SNR under control, let's end this thread at this time. 73, Eric List Manager elecraft.com _..._ On Jul 6,

Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-06 Thread Don Wilhelm
My suggestions for handling email from any email reflector or Yahoo group: Sign up for individual emails - BUT - set a filter in your email client to move all emails containing [Elecraft] in the subject into a separate folder in your inbox (I call mine Elecraft). That effectively creates your

Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-05 Thread kevinr
I was just reviewing my copy of Balanis and remembered the grueling effort of the class. I took it in grad school with a crazy Greek professor who worked with Balanis. He wound up being my thesis advisor :) Kevin. KD5ONS On 7/5/2013 1:54 PM, george fritkin wrote: I remember the

Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-05 Thread Phil Shepard
Ah, memories … I took an antenna class from Balanis, and we used photo copies of his fledgling book, acting as proofers. He was my senior EE project advisor as well. Quite a character. I wish I still remembered a fraction of what I knew then. Hi hi. Phil, NS7P On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:11

Re: [Elecraft] OT - anyone have experience with effects of metalroofs on antenna performace?

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Chebi
This note is for the log/web manager. I note that each time somebody comments on a thread ( the recent ones on metal roof), a new email is sent to all recipients. This is a nuisance cluttering the inbox. My experience with blogs is all comments are retained on the server Under one heading, and