: Biodegradable staples
I want to see a barefoot child running around my cactus patch. And what, pray
tell, is a lawnmower?
Wes N7WS
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On 6/7/2018 1:29 PM, Rick Stealey wrote:
> You should never use steel staples in the ground. Think for a minute. They
> are sharp, rusty o
You should never use steel staples in the ground. Think for a minute. They
are sharp, rusty objects that stay a long time. Imagine a barefoot child
playing in the area (after you are SK possibly). Imagine a lawn mower grabs a
piece of radial wire and jerks it out of the ground with wire
I think a better option is to mount a trap at the top and run a single
horizontal wire for the 160 portion. This way you wouldn't be concerned about
the 80 meter vertical coupling into the 160 antenna, and the complexity of
switching your feedline between two antennas. I know of two hams who
Mike says:
I wonder if 1500W would make a difference when I can hear better. I doubt
it.
What? Mike, 1500 watts is 5 db more signal than you have now. If you can hear
better, such that you aren't getting out well enough why would you think 5 db
more wouldn't benefit you? 5 db is HUGE.
I'm going to blame this one on the ARRL.
In fact we might even call it the "1809 ARRL 24 hour dash."
Why, you ask?
Because it MIGHT have been caused by the operator mistakenly leaving his copy
of QST on his key when he went to bed last night.
Rick K2XT
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> Even so the odd Dec/Jan thunderstorm can cause a problem so I have a supply
> of 450 ohm resistors of the type recommended on this reflector, on hand for
> quick repairs! The maintenance never ends! Steve, NN4T
Get some gas tubes from Mouser. I use 652-2049-12-BT1LF. 62 cents each last
W8JI writes:good A-B test,
so it really boils down to what makes us happy. If we are happy, it is like
magic. It is as good as an extra 10 dB.
This is true no matter how our
antennas actually work. :)
This may the most brilliant statement about antennas in the past 50 years.
Rick K2XT
I haven't seen this aspect of the subject covered - the impact on the other
station.
Say I am a little pistol in NJ, and I try to work a station with a big signal
out on the west coast. He's having trouble with me so he switches to a remote
receiver in VA and picks me up. I THINK I've just
In order to identify the location of the transmitter by radio methods (as
opposed to Doug's contacts identifying the culprit) it is eventually going to
require some more accurate antenna patterns than you get from Beverages and
other rather broad pattern antennas.
If you will remember three
They just went away.?
Now what the heck are we going to do for fun, operate the silly radios on the
quiet band?
K2XT
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I'm mapping the data, but nothing to hang my hat on at this time. The data
from Steve (KK7UV) does not intersect any of the other reports (odd). A
heading from W8JI or AA1K would be very helpful.
Don (wd8dsb)
If you guys will remember from a year ago, Don is the man who pinpoints
Everyone is measuring the 3501.6 signal only, right?
The other ones, if they exist are in the noise for me, central NJ.
I heard the 3501.6 from 10 am till I had to QRT at 3 pm, S3 on a dipole.
It is S8 now, So maybe I have it 24 hrs a day.
I took my loop outside to my porch and got a bearing on
This is looking like somewhere near the Florida/Georgia border,
Jacksonville, Fl to Brunswick, Ga area.
Any mobile station traveling the I-95 corridor could provide some very
interesting data, very easily. What mile marker does the signal peak at?
Then we take a loop and start driving
W8JI says:
My gut feeling is
the one that looks the best and takes the most work will make you feel like
you have the best signal you ever had, but no one else will notice the
change except you
This is a a very significant statement when you think about it.
Ask anyone you talk to on the
For them to make a significant impact on my ability to transmit, they would
have to absorb at least 3db (750 watts).
So your loss is less than 3 db, and so it's of no concern to you?
I know 160 meter ops who would, and do, pay lots of money for an extra 3 db.
Say your tree loss was really
No matter how impressive that discone antenna looks, it still is just a
vertical, right?
Nothing magical about the signal it radiates.
I mean, you're not going to have DX falling all over you telling you you're the
loudest signal on the band.
Rick K2XT
Whatever you call this season - the off season, or the QRN season, or summer
season, it sure has bought out some interesting posting this past week. I have
enjoyed all the topics, rhombics, discones, W6AM, W4BPD, honor roll. launch
silos, etc.
Rick K2XT
The only way many of us can learn about the big names of years gone by is to
listen in on discussions like these;
Yes, but right here on Topband we have many current-day worthy replacements for
them. One can imagine the next generation may be talking about the likes of
W8JI, W3LPL. K3LR,
I have to admit to not realizing this matter was on the table.
So the ARRL Board of Directors voted to petition the FCC on the strength
of their collective wisdom, without asking the membership our opinion,
so it seems? Now someone is going to probably point out to me that
it has been written
fine whiskey is a daylight beverage is appended to the end of each posting.
At first I thought it was the personal signature file of the individual poster
but it is on everyone's posting. It was kind of cute the first time I saw
it
But ok, I get the point.
How about replacing it
The fine whiskey signature has been there for a long time. I am
surprised this has become an issue.
I started the whole thing, not trying to make it an issue, but mostly I was
confused when I first saw it because I thought it was a personal signature
file, then saw everyone was using it
What is the preferred method of tuning elevated radials for uniformity?
Hi Jeff,
I'd say make the radials longer than you expect them to be, put on a carrier,
and see if you can light a neon bulb at the end of a stick out at the end. As
you approach the feedpoint the voltage will go
This is current status, as promised, to all the group on Topband reflector
who have been interested in what was happening with the 1810 spur situation.
The station engineer for WGYM, Hammonton NJ responded this afternoon to our
observation of a spur on 1810/1812. He visited the
The signal on 1810 has been positively identified, and located ! One of our
topbanders has
triangulated it right down to the exact location, and done it from 800 miles
away in Indiana.
The credit goes to Don, WD8DSB, with a yard full of Pennants, and the expertise
to use
them. He directed
So what do we know so far? No one has used an extremely sharp directional
antenna like a loop,
but the Beverages, KA9Ys, etc. from Maine to NC seem to be roughly pointing to
the mid-Atlantic area
like NJ, NYC, Delaware? I am in central NJ 15 mi east of Trenton, and the
signal here is not
This is why we don't want to ignore this stuff.
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I'm coming to the realization after spending the better part of the last 24
hours working on my Beverages
that we can't get meaningful data this way.
Tom - do you think portable loops, say 2 ft on a side, would provide enough
signal
Anyone else have a reliable direction on a different
bearing line?
2 pm in New Jersey. It is 3 S units above background noise with my NE
terminated Beverage, S5 and S2.
Rig -K3, 400 Hz bandwidth, cw-R mode, 1810.6.
I can at least go down and remove the termination.
If it was NE of me the
I removed the termination. Same signal level, S5.
Now the real question is, does my Beverage have any f/b? Well, it is 550 ft
long, 470 ohm termination, 9:1 transformer.
Is this a waste of time, or useful?
Rick K2XT
1.801 OJ7E - Finland
1.806 HV8E - Vatican
1.811 GX3E - England
ah-oh, not good news, Guys. The Chinese are in the business. Looks like here
is one of our culprits.
Check out the specs (freq. and emission)
http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/218045564/Radio_Buoy.html
Sri,
K2XT
Don't you wonder what would happen, if 500 Topbanders all wrote a NICE, POLITE
email to all the manufacturers of these devices,
and in, say, 5-10 sentences or less simply asked them if they would mind
excluding 1.8-2 MHz because it ANNOYS THE HELL
(oops, I mean...) it makes it difficult
Someone asked me for the source for tick spray for the lawn.
www.epestsolutions.com/
There may be others, but this one came up from an amazon search. The delivery
took one day.
What you want is bifenthrin, 7.8%.
A quart is about $30 and Just to give you a rough idea you use APPROXIMATELY 1
Frank, W3LPL recommends -
Clothing can be purchased pretreated with Permethrin. Commercially treated
clothing remains effective after dozens of washings. Look for the trademarks
Insect Shield and Bug Shield in sporting goods stores or online:
I have been having a terrible problem with
I have the general coverage module in my K3 and I can report that it works
very well on the BC band as well as MW. I do not have the AM filter but AM
still sounds OK.
K3 guys - dont forget you have synchronous AM detection on your K3s.
When in AM mode, hold in the ALT button (right
Milt says:
Yet we all know from experience that the WWV radiation performance
is excellent.
I see N6RK has addressed this statement in his response as well, but I would
like to add that this kind of statement is often heard on the air, That
antenna of yours there is doing a FB job for you.
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