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of the choices.
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I actually got permission from the seller to go out there, set up an
antenna, and operate a 160 contest before making and offer.
The place worked great. I committed.
Mark N5OT
On 3/25/2022 12:19 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
This is a great piece of advice!!! I would add: check those QRN levels
e you have similar soil. Also, if you
are going to install a bunch of them, do yourself a favor and buy the
staple driver tool which makes it a breeze.
73
Ken K4ZW
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 5:02 PM Mark - N5OT wrote:
I think I gave $18 for a box of 1000 at a hamfest in Joplin MO a couple
years ago.
H
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On 2/22/2022 2:56 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 2/22/2022 12:12 PM, Gene Smar via Topband wrote:
HongWay 6 Inch Galvanized Landscape Staples 360 Packs Garden Stakes.
I'm happy with the box I bought from DX Eng several months ago.
73, Jim K9YC
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verticals are a great antenna.
And so it goes.
73 - Mark N5OT
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Make that corona flashover an EVENT at your next QSO party.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 11/8/2021 5:41 PM, Gary K9GS wrote:
Use Hydrogen!73,Gary K9GS
Original message From: W7TMT - Patrick Date: 11/8/21 4:54 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Mark - N5OT
, TopBand List Subject: Re: Topband: Balloon
m…
Be advised the gas used by the party stores these days is almost
always a mixture and not pure helium. That’s means considerably less
lift. You’ll likely need to source the good stuff from a industrial
gas supplier.
W7TMT
From: Topband on
behalf of Mark - N5O
.
Now I'm having nightmares again.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 11/8/2021 2:48 PM, Dick Bingham wrote:
Greetings All
I want to try a balloon supported Vertical for 160.
Any advice on sources for balloons? Mylar material
and diameters up to 2-feet would be my choice.
73. Dick/w7wkr at CN97uj
is, I had no idea I live on the most conductive
ground on the map of the USA. That explains many things. Lucky me!
73 - Mark N5OT
On 9/14/2021 5:39 PM, Tree wrote:
Maybe I will beat W6DGH to this...
WB6ZKK was pushing barb wire dipoles.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 3:37 PM Mark - N5OT <mailto:r-
When I was a kid, we had a guy WB6ZKK who touted dipoles made of
slinkys. I am thinking some of the same electronic theory and design
must have come into play.
Tree will remember. Long live the old NTS.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 9/14/2021 5:21 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
I've not heard the term
Wait. There's such a thing as an "accodion inductor"? I thought I knew
everything.
I'll be glad when mowing season is over, too.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 9/14/2021 2:44 PM, w3...@roadrunner.com wrote:
Been reading the encouraging posts. So, I got up and heard good
activity, work
Hi Pete, I have a PILE of experience with K9AY loops, but I don't use
them in the usual "one-support-two-loops-four-directions"
configuration. Mine are all individual loops on individual supports
dedicated into arrays in various directions.
The first thing I would check is to make sure you
n't really go out with the chainsaw while it's happening.
That's for later.
I am liking the counterweight approach as what I may use if I put up
long wires like that.
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d maybe 10 Europeans and counted 10 JAs, so I know my signal was
getting to those places.
That's really all I know about that.
The vertical is 50 feet tall and has two symmetrical top-load wires that
bring the resonant frequency to 1.8 MHz.
73 - Mark N5OT
P.S. Got an email from a guy in South Dakota
Bill, you might check with your wife. I bet she is cleaning the dryer's
filter every time she uses it which might explain why you can't find the
hash.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 11/21/2020 10:18 AM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
Hi Joe,
Have you tried to do anything about the dryer? Filters? I
In my head this is becoming "101 uses for old network cable" which is
great because I've got a ton of it coiled up neatly and set aside but
not thrown away :-) Thanks topbanders.
Still working on this year's vertical. It will be ready for CQWW is the
plan.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 1
the same symptom? From your description, all we
really know is that the degradation in performance of the antenna and
the condition of the binocular core are coincidental.
Your BOG might have some other issue that replacing the ferrite won't
change.
Just thinking out loud.
73 - Mark N5OT
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Plastic bottles are the coil form of choice on DXpeditions. Excellent.
Mark N5OT
On 9/3/2019 5:55 AM, ly...@qrz.lt wrote:
Hi Pete,
Here is picture of coil I made to tune Inv. L at 9Y4 with 15-20 Ohm impedance.
It was tuned in 2 steps:
1. calculate and wound coil to rise R close to 50 Ohm
This is a really good answer. Thanks Tim.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 7/29/2019 7:12 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Terry, I strongly encourage you to put up the K9AY. By no numerical measure is
it the best. But it’s easy to put up and Compared to all the others, it is
relatively insensitive to other objects
Steve - just a note to say thanks for this resource. I have enjoyed
going through stuff on your channel as I figure out how I'm going to do
the RX antennas at my new location. Your contribution to the brain
trust is valuable and appreciated.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 7/25/2019 5:28 PM, VE6WZ_Steve
This has got to be on a case-by case basis. I don't have any listening
antennas, so i listen on my transmit vertical. It works fine. For me.
Most of the time.
Would I hear more stuff with listening antennas? I bet the answer is
yes under certain conditions.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 7/24
was using 160
meters to show him how useless the noise source made my radio, then how
fabulous it was when he was done. His name and number are now in my
speed dial.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 7/22/2019 10:15 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
Around here, lightning arrestors on these power cables are the prime
vertical can be made to be useful on 160
meters, I think, depending on the definition of "useful" the answer can
definitely be YES and I can think of a whole lot of QSOs that have been
made with verticals about that tall.
73 - Mark N5OT
On 6/4/2019 8:41 AM, Roy Morgan wrote:
Hello
Can anybody loan me a stick so I can poke my own eyes out instead of
continuing to read this ongoing thread?
Thanks in advance,
Mark N5OT
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Sure enough.
> Dad made me take it down then.
It wasn't any time recently, then?
73 - Mark N5OT
On 4/17/2019 1:04 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
Surely, others other than myself had fun with the neighbors by hanging an
old fluorescent lamp on their wire and vertical antennas! ;-)
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