Hi Doc, The following is in response to your antenna comments.
At about $150USD, either of the two antenna designs in the article below, especially the random wire, will work great from a typical 1/2 acre lot, the doublet will require an ATU with most rigs, the random wire mostly will not: http://www.n2ckh.com/MARS_ALE_FORUM/AAR2EY_NVIS_ANTENNA.pdf Lastly, with the newest rigs and external computer interfaced antenna switches and ATU's, multiple antenna types can be brought into play, this scenario has just been addressed in the MARS-ALE software, for instance, at frequencies below 4Mhz, I have my ATU enabled (new LDG AT200PC RS-232 controlled unit) to bring the random wire VSWR down. At my low 2Mhz channels I have that channel configured to select my 160m resonant antenna (internal AT200PC and external DTS-4 ant switch in my case). I can not however state at this time when you will see such support provided in PC-ALE, however all good things come in time. /s/ Steve, N2CKH/AAR2EY www.n2ckh.com >3. Difficulty of use with commonly owned antennas. >(Broadband HF antennas are rare and most are either >terribly lossy or barely efficient, limiting range >and low-signal effectiveness.) Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
