I'd like to suggest that one very good reason for using centre-fed and external
matching unit is because the harmonic pickup from nearby stations is much
reduced compared to multi-band antennas. This is best implemented when the
antenna is as near perfectly balanced as possible to avoid feedlin
I have a KX3 instead of a KX2, but I frequently go out in the field to play
radio at local parks and other scenic spots. I have a number of antennas,
but one of my favorites is one I built recently, a link dipole for 40, 30,
and 20. It's tuned for the CW portions of the bands, so it doesn't need
mu
Simple is good
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 07:07 Gwen Patton wrote:
> I have a KX3 instead of a KX2, but I frequently go out in the field to play
> radio at local parks and other scenic spots. I have a number of antennas,
> but one of my favorites is one I built recently, a link dipole for 40, 30,
>
Well,... I was the one who made the $ typo accidentally in the first place
but I too thought it a bit tongue in cheek & appropriate, so I did not
correct it.
Someone else has made the later Euope typo!
Ray G3XLG
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I don't suppose your callsign has anything to do with the success of your
antennas.:-)
Wes N7WS
On 10/10/2019 10:54 PM, Vic Rosenthal wrote:
Things I’ve learned by experience:
In 63 years as a ham, I’ve had several :-) HF antennas. The ones that gave me
the greatest overall satisfaction hav
Ha ha, that's a good one, I too have a 20dB callsign. Not always but I'm
sure on occasion it helps. I often get 10 to 20 over nine reports
running 100 watts to a 2 element (Force 12 C3 @ 24m) from Europe when
more powerful stations from there make only 5-6 to 5-7 here.
Martin, HS0ZED
On 11/
Rick -
You may have a balun issue. I had problems too until I switched to the 1:1 /
4:1 hybrid (based on antenna analyzer measurements). And now, 160m matches
fine for me. In fact, I made over 200 contacts (FT8, and mostly stateside) on
160m last week.
The KAT500 is "supposedly" limited to
Wow! We're way over the single topic posting limit on this thread. Let's end it
for now in the interest of helping others survive email overload.
73,
Eric
/mooderator.. elecraft.com/
On 10/11/2019 8:52 AM, Lyn Norstad wrote:
Rick -
You may have a balun issue. I had problems too until I switch
Lyn,
That was at the old QTH in CA, here I'm using an inverted L for most
bands (temporarily) and a dipole for 80M (which came down in a
windstorm, couldn't take the weight of the 10' branch that hit it). The
match for 80M on the L is well beyond the range of the KAT500.
I'm shifting to a S
Thanks for the tip, Don. Been preparing coax cables for years the hard (and
wrong) way.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 10, 2019, at 3:02 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>
> Clark and all,
>
> The secret to stripping the outer insulation from ANY coax (including the
> RG178) is to first score the outer
Yes, me too...
>>Thanks for the tip, Don. Been preparing coax cables for years the hard (and
>>wrong) way.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Oct 10, 2019, at 3:02 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>>
>> Clark and all,
>>
>> The secret to stripping the outer insulation from ANY coax (including the
>> RG17
On 10/11/2019 5:32 AM, Wes wrote:
> I don't suppose your callsign [ 4X6GP ] has anything to do with the success of
> your antennas.:-)
When I was 4X4UQ in the mid-1960s I had to beat off the Europeans while
running 75 watts into a tri-bander about 1 meter above the roof of a
4-story cinder-black
On 10/11/2019 5:32 AM, Wes wrote:
I don't suppose your callsign has anything to do with the success of
your antennas.
Vic's original call was K2VCO. As kids, we worked on 40M traffic nets
before heading out to high school in the '50s. We reconnected about 15
years ago after he and I had both
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A simple way to make a center-fed half-wave dipole multi-band is by
using alligator clips to disconnect outer section a dipole in order
to run on a higher freq band.
Simple make a dipole for the lowest freq of interest and then cut the
wires at the length for the higher band, attach an alligat
For sale is one Elecraft W2 wattmeter in "like new condition" with all
three directional couplers (1.8-54 200W; 1.8-54 2000W; and 144-450 200W),
KXUSB cable, power cable with powerpoles on one end, and A/C adapter that
works with the W2. Note that the directional couplers are the early
version tha
In WVARA, we have very good success running several bands on the
same antenna at the same time using triplexers. We set up our
triband yagis parallel to each other so they are in each other's
low-gain area. We have been able to operate CW, SSB, and digital
on the same band at the same time.
T
Is there any modern-day equivalent to the old Johnson Matchbox? I use
several different MFJ tuners with good results. My favorite is the
"Differential-T" 986 which tunes everything with very little effort. I
don't actually know how efficient it is but it tunes my 132' doublet fed
with 450 ohm l
Item has been sold.
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From: Joseph Hall
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:29 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: F/S Elecraft W2 Wattmeter + three couplers
For sale is one Elecraft W2 wattmeter in "like new condition" with all three
directional couplers (1.8-54 200W; 1.8
Might I suggest a Common Mode Filter, such as that sold my myantennas.com?
My standby antenna is an endfed half-wave from the same source. It hangs
from the eve corner and is noisy - the kind of noise that comes from
today's modern household. I put a CMC Filter on it right at the bulkhead
here
On 2019-10-11 3:19 PM, Doug Person wrote:
>
My favorite is the "Differential-T" 986 which tunes everything with
very little effort.
Any of the many "T" (single shunt coil, multiple series capacitors)
network tuners are high pass networks. They do very little to
suppress harmonics and/or phas
On 10/11/2019 2:00 PM, Bill wrote:
Might I suggest a Common Mode Filter, such as that sold my myantennas.com
All the mumbo-jumbo on that site tells me that they selling snake oil.
FAR better, and much less expensive, wind your own using these
guidelines. k9yc.com/2018Cookbook.pdf
73, Jim K9
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