Nice to work some old friends last night although G activity seemed low and the
last couple of hours were a little painful. 160 QSOs with at least one dupe
which was my logging error (sorry Terry!) Nice quiet channel for almost all of
the contest and noticeably few keying clicks on the band -
Test
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UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Tree - delete this please - sent it to the wrong reflector!
73, Tom G3OLB
- Original Message -
From: Tom Boucher
To: 160 reflector
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:17 AM
Subject: RSGB 1st 1.8 MHz Contest
Nice to work some old friends last night although G activity seemed low and
Yes, FCP *was* originally designed to get small-lotters on top-band. My
buddy Jack downsized and tore my heart out with his moaning about what he
had done to his 160 results. But watch out when you say just. FCP has
opened Pandora's box on the murky area of counterpoles for 160. We have
the
I've really enjoyed reading all of the posts relative to the above
subject... I really do not worry about radials any more...
I have a 100 foot 45G tower festooned with monobanders from 80 to 10
meters. I use an Omega match on 160 with 32 radials of #14 stranded,
insulated wire from Home
On 02/12/2012 10:15 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
And you will be hearing 160 4 squares built
with FCP's, taking up less space than one conventional 1/4 wave vertical
with 1/4 wave radials, eliminating the issue of what to do with crossing
radials.
I plan to do a similar thing on 80m, though
There was also one of these at the University of Illinois that was
decommissioned in the early 80s. I've seen this thing up close and
there were even rumors of some of the W9YH club members hooking a radio
to this thing.
I've always wondered if it's still there. Worth a look the next time
Here's a Wullenweber that is intact and I believe functional although
not used like it was. It's coordinates are 54.028911,-132.065256 and it
is quite visible in Google Maps. Of course it belongs to the Canadian
military and is on Masset Island in Haida Gwaii .
I've not yet found them in a
