On 2011-10-25, at 8:57 PM, Steven Raas wrote:
> 1) Would adding a a pair of 130' radials that are bent (running TO property
> edge and then along property edge) give me any real world performance
> difference? Would I have to add say 4 , 8 or 16 of these to make it worth
> while in ADDITION to th
I think a front end protector is some good amount of insurance. I listen on
other receivers while transmitting. I have cooked an IC746PRO doing this
and it was quite annoying. It tricked me into thinking everything was fine
because it worked okay for a good long while, but ultimately I cooked
Steve and Topbanders,
JD1BME is a legitimate call, which I know definitely operated from
Ogasawara (OC-073) and QSLed. I'm 99.9% sure the 2007 activity,
supposedly from Minami Torishima, was bogus. I worked JD1BME on 80 in
January and sent a direct QSL to the JA QSL bureau and have never
received
Hello everyone,
I have on my makeshift Inverted L about 21 Radials ranging from 60' long to
20' all fanned out from the feed of my antenna out to my property edges.I am
tuning the 'L' in shack with a tuner, as without it.. SWR is approaching 2:1
I do realize laying radials on ground detunes them,
Thanks for all the responses.
One respondent recalled hearing of success with a similar setup on the
Towertalk reflector. By searching the archives for "shunt bands" I found an
"existence theorem" at:
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Topband/1997-12/msg00194.html
I followed the prescri
