Re: Topband: Low Bands on a Small Lot

2016-01-13 Thread Jonathan White
HI Robert. I to had this dilemma in the end I put up a 1/4w inverted L with 3 1/4w radials.Which got me stateside,I am near the sea on the east coast. due to family reasons i`m now in a 1 bedroom apartment with no chance of putting up any form of external antenna,so the only thing that may be po

Re: Topband: Mag loop 400W if possible.

2015-11-16 Thread jonathan white
notfar from new qth. thanks everyone. 73`s Jon On 15/11/15 21:03, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote: On 11/15/2015 4:59 AM, jonathan white wrote: Hi I am in a bit of trouble I will be mooing to a flat/apartment ,so can anyone give me details of a mag loop that will fit in a room and also be able to be

Topband: Mag loop 400W if possible.

2015-11-15 Thread jonathan white
Hi I am in a bit of trouble I will be mooing to a flat/apartment ,so can anyone give me details of a mag loop that will fit in a room and also be able to be taken apart and resembled on a beach,will use big vac cap 1000pf 40kv Russian type,any takers,and please dont laugh I love topband. 73`s J

Topband: Verticals on beach

2015-04-06 Thread Jonathan White
HI. I hope this don’t sound out of discussion, but about maybe 10 yrs ago.W went to a small "beach" on the river blackwater " estuary near were we live. I had recebtly got a cheap £3 world band radio,and it must have been 7pm BST and tide was in. tuning around the MW I found a reasonable station,bu

Re: Topband: What ever happened to the 160 meter "Z" antenna?

2015-02-20 Thread Jonathan White
I seem to remember that ant and another person who claimed to get a goo match with a sloper fed with a i think 1/4w of wire conected at abt 2` from base of tower .I have lost them notes . I put up a vertical abt 50 ` high with top bottom capacity hats, 120` long.Now this was suspended in a tree 80

Topband: Top band antenna in small garden/lot.

2014-05-02 Thread Jonathan White
Hi Top branders My support for the EI7BA topband antenna ,namely an 80` eucalyptus tree went over in the storms and also demolished my shed with all the radios,and PC`s . I have 2 35` poles and was thinking of of a Marconi T . With 3 top wires abt,2` apart and a tunner at base and use the wire f

Topband: multicore phone cable as radials

2012-07-23 Thread jonathan white
Sorry for maybe a dumb question .But can you use this trpe of cable as radials/counterpoise, as I rent and cant really dug up garden to do job properly so hit on this idea. Idea is each individual strand in the cable will act as one radial. BUT I probable know the answer. Please give me your though