Bill,
Instructions for creating a drawing of the basic configuration: 160 only,
no tuning inductors or capacitors. Tuning after construction by adjusting
the length of the top of the L.
Start in the center of a blank piece of paper. Draw a transformer with a
completely separate primary and secon
The counterpoise needs to be bare wire with separators at 4-6 inches for
the separation. We have tried making the counterpoise with 450 ohm window
line, which came up lossy. Operations improved with the discard of FCP
using heavy dielectric. Using zip cord would definitely be worse. FORGET
zip c
As others have noted recently, conditions seem to have been finally
improving this winter Topband season. I have had a lot of success into
Europe over the last month, but this morning was extra special and
hopefully a sign of good things to come.
I knew the morning would be good when PE5T call
Bill:
Functionally both FCP configurations shown on my website K2AV Antenna Page
produce the same results. The sketch showing the Inverted L portion of the
antenna system indicates how my 160/80m antenna is configured. The matching
unit diagram is unique to my system.
If your needs are only for
Guy--(and others who may contribute)
I have been following your posts, and have some questions, brought on by a
view at the W0UCE diagrams, at:
http://www.w0uce.net/K2AVantennas.html
The top figure seems to match what I understood from your post, but the
figure that includes the Inv "L" confuses
Guy,
I'm looking at your antenna at W0UCe's website:
http://www.w0uce.net/K2AVantennas.html
Does the sections of the folded counterpoise have to be separated from each
other or can they be adjactent to each other. I'm thinking of constructing one
using zipcord for the FCP.
73,
Mike N2MS
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On 12/7/2011 6:15 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> The flavour of the comments seems to be distilled as - the rules make it so
> we (west coast) cannot realistically win - so we may as
> well not come and play. Huh?
The problem, Jeff, is that we're not even in the same contest! Superb
operators at sup
>From a rookie and micro-pistol perspective, I don't understand the
>sit-this-out thought process.
The flavour of the comments seems to be distilled as - the rules make it so we
(west coast) cannot realistically win - so we may as
well not come and play. Huh?
There are a lot of contests that
On 12/7/2011 1:50 PM, k...@aol.com wrote:
> A contact is a contact in ARRL 160M - and I work everything I can hear and
> then some (almost ESP sometimes).
But some contacts are worth a lot more than others, and some of us have
a lot more mults available to us than others, for equivalent effort.
Note: the following is not a theoretical or untested antenna. There
are working antennas in the field using the folded counterpoise
described below, scoring well in contests**, in use up to a year and
more. Contest scores of the sort attained are not made using antennas
with significant deficienc
Hi Jeff,
That's the problem with the ARRL 160m from a European point of
view. Jeff you get 5 points for working me , I get two points for working
you, in the same Contest. A no brainer, which is why now although I hold
the EU record I do not bother with this one any more, with the exce
> I just brought up the site here. http://www.eznec.com. The latest demo
> version at http://www.eznec.com/demoinfo.htm works fine in Windows 7. You
> can often get around the segment limit in the demo by scaling the antenna
> up to VHF; try modeling a 160 antenna at 180 MHz.
4Nec2 is free and is
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:54 PM, sebdesnCC wrote:
> I dug out my EZNEC version3.03, ... I was on the site in the last few
> weeks and it was operational,but, now for the last few days I can't bring
> it up,Has he closed the company
> down??? ...
>
> Bud W0HG
>
I just brought up the site her
Hi George and all,
good to know that it's worth to switch to western RX-Antennas quite
early! I think the problem for US-Stations copying EU before their SS is
that most Europeans listen to the east at that time. Do you see any
difference at signal-angle on receiving before sunset? I worked UK9A
Hi Gang
I have been reading comments about this past weekend's ARRL 160M test and I
wish to address some comments that I have seen regarding EAST COAST
participants.
Some of what I have read seems to suggest that we out here are not
interested in beaming to and or working WEST COAST stations.
West coast stand outs here on Friday night through the dismal codx
were K7OX and VE6BBP.
73, Barry N1EU
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
> I worked K7KU during the test Dec 3 @ 02:30
>
> Definitely strong in CT
>
> Gary KA1J
>
>> Lloyd Berg N9LB wrote:
>> >
>> > shack it was
Gentlemen,
Running 50w I only worked Jeff VY2ZM who was real strong as usual but after
a few calls to other loud stations I switched off.
Would say it is almost impossible to get thru with low power. Never turned
on my Henry 4K.
Looking forward to this promising winter. Plase dont be afried of s
I worked K7KU during the test Dec 3 @ 02:30
Definitely strong in CT
Gary KA1J
> Lloyd Berg N9LB wrote:
> >
> > shack it was 0113z. First station worked was K7KU in WY. After that,
>
> K7KU was incredibly strong here in CA. Was he strong in the east
> too?
>
> Rick N6RK
_
I dug out my EZNEC version3.03,and loaded it on Windows 7Pro,and ran the
compatibility program in 7to make it work(it was for 98/95/2000)..anyway, It
wont play,and I Went to lewallens eznec website,to D/l an up grade to to see
if that will make it play,
I was on the site in the last few weeks and
Very strong here in GA when nothing else was consign this way from over there.
tnx
Mike
On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:10 PM, "Rick Karlquist" wrote:
> Lloyd Berg N9LB wrote:
>>
>> shack it was 0113z. First station worked was K7KU in WY. After that,
>
> K7KU was incredibly strong here in CA. Was h
Lloyd Berg N9LB wrote:
>
> shack it was 0113z. First station worked was K7KU in WY. After that,
K7KU was incredibly strong here in CA. Was he strong in the east
too?
Rick N6RK
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UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
N9LB 2011 ARRL 160 Contest SOLP
100 watts, 60 ft vertical, 60 radials.
This is the first year that I've operated in the ARRL 160 contest. By
the time I got home on Friday and had something to eat, and got into the
shack it was 0113z. First station worked was K7KU in WY. After that,
mostly e
Hi Andre
And I can attest. I heard you CQing 90 min before our SS on top band.
Superb conditions.
Altho no copy on Pai and he left the band before it reached our SS.
Another good one was just prior to the first nite of CQWW CW. I was hearing
plenty of EU 2 hours before my SS.
The band certai
It turns out that W6XR reversed the "F" and "N" on WA8GBB's grid
square and made it NF31 - which would be somewhere in the South Indian
Ocean. Since nobody else worked WA8GBB, this error was not detected
by the software and I didn't take the time to find this myself.
I'll fix this and re-post the
On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 12:13:48 am Tree wrote:
> The Results for the 2011 PreStew contest are now posted on the Stew
> Perry Topband Distance Challenge website.
> http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
This line from the results is interesting:
W6XR S H FN12 1120 15 97 32
Hi, Topband Gangs;
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 21:13:48 -0800
Tree wrote:
> The Results for the 2011 PreStew contest are now posted on the Stew
> Perry Topband Distance Challenge website.
> http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html
>
> Congrats to the winners:
>
> Single-Op High Power: KV4FZ
> Single-Op Low
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