Topband: Hairpin Matching Coil Questions

2013-09-13 Thread Jim GM
I have an inverted L and using a hairpin coil to match in on 160M. One coil is 6 inches OD the other is 2 inches OD. I have been thinking about making another hairpin with wire wrapped around a toroid donut, I have noticed with the 6 inch coil I have a higher noise level on 160M and hear BCI pre

Topband: Underground twisted pair

2013-09-13 Thread Bruce
Anyone on the reflector had experience burying unshielded twisted pair wires at HF frequencies?. How much loss? Estimated ? Measured? When burying, was there a before and after common mode increase ? Notes At audio frequencies the phone companies used to run many twisted pair in lead s

Re: Topband: More anecdotal "stories" to cause one to stop and....

2013-09-13 Thread Richard Fry
Jack WS3N wrote: Then it would seem that what you call the surface wave must be the remaining part of the complete solution, and so it must decay exponentially in the vertical direction. ... a decaying solution can't be projected in a straight line and assumed to reach the ionosphere. The rad