Re: Topband: It is not so much propagation

2012-03-21 Thread Jim WA9YSD
All this talk about beverages makes me thirsty.  Thats, for 160M DX. I use to rag chew on CW,use to run CW nets back in the day. If the guy is calling CQ DX I sit and listen to see what is drummed up. He is paying for the electric bill not me. Besides chances are he has a better antenna that I

Re: Topband: 160 meter G5RV

2012-03-21 Thread Mike Waters
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:57 AM, dnem...@aol.com wrote: My brother W2NFK just purchased a G5RV MAX ... Anyone have any ideas for a RF choke I made a common mode choke for a G5RV-style antenna by stacking four 2.4 OD #31 mix toroids and winding 5 turns of RG-6 through it. It goes on the

Re: Topband: 160 meter G5RV

2012-03-21 Thread Jim Brown
On 3/21/2012 8:57 AM, dnem...@aol.com wrote: Anyone have any ideas for a RF choke to stop it. Although I'm a strong advocate of the use of feedline chokes, I don't advocate using one here. A FAR better solution for 160M with that antenna is to tie both sides of the feedline together, tie that

Topband: G5RV

2012-03-21 Thread DnEMoth
Thanks for all the replies about the G5RV RF into the shack problem. We ordered a W2DU-HF choke balun from AES that is supposed to solve the problem 1.8-30 Mhz with a GOOD ground for the transceiver and power supply. Will post here how it works out. Floyd says thank you he is 89 and NOT on