The riveting experience I draw on is one particular IOTA contest where our
group was operating as N4A on Core Banks, NC. The bands were full of
signals in the early afternoon, including stuff on 40 from Europe really
before the band was quite open.
I was walking around with a battery Elecraft
At TX5D, Raivavae, Australs FP, I could real time A/B a vertical at the
high tide line on 15m vs one 100' feet back and got 1 to 2 S units
better for the beach one on the USA path about 7000km.
Grant KZ1W
On 8/11/2014 1:16 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
The riveting experience I draw on is one
Esteemed Reflectees:
I received my YB0ARA card in the mail this afternoon from Art, N2AU.
WOOHOO!!! I am extremely grateful to him for managing this since he is pretty
much incapacitated these days. I know there are some of you still looking
to confirm this one but PLEASE be patient
How do,
The thread on ferrites has been most interesting, but it leaves a question or
two unanswered. Please be kind to an old timer.
The scenario: Butternut HF6V (or any hf vertical) ground mounted w/32 radials
at 32 feet, buried just beneath the surface. The questions:
Is a choke
That's really impressive!
73,
Charlie, K4OTV
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On 8/11/2014 12:34 PM, jcjacob...@q.com wrote:
Is a choke needed on the feed line
The function of a common mode choke at that point is to prevent the coax
from becoming a radial. Your radial system, whatever it is, also does
that, to the extent that it's a good radial system. 32 radials 32
I can only provide anecdotal evidence.
In July 1997 we did CY9AA and our 160m antenna turned out to be a 130' wire,
suspended by a large helium/mylar balloon.
We mounted the base in the rocks right at the waters edge on the
North/Northeast-ish edge of the smaller north Island of St. Paul.
Condx
One pony needs to get into one drag radio car and drive around the ocean
front, over the bridges, back over the land and watch the S-meter and
listen to the bands. Observant would see 10 - 20 dB difference in signal
levels in lousy mobile, especially on low angle propagation.
Examples:
There have been reports of verticals and salt water almost as long as there
has been radio. It helps horizontal antennas also.
Ive operated for enough years aboard USN ships to know it is often a band
opener and have to laugh at a couple of petty comments. The difference
between operating
Yuri,
Thanks for your input. Tom asks, where are the other stations? It is a one
pony race. Well I am sure if we look at the CQ logs for that year we will
see that there were other Carib stations on but we did not hear them out
here--that is my point. I can't compare a set of verticals on the
I can only offer another anecdotal account to the subject. It started 44
years ago when I, Steve, K9CQV (K0SX), Ken, W0KUS, and Julius, K8HKB set up
shop on San Andres Island and signed our calls portable HK0 for a week.
With the help of Victor, HK0AI we had a location at the water's edge.
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