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Showing posts with label Antennas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antennas. Show all posts
Monday, September 12, 2011

Tall Pines Beg for an Antenna

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My parent's home in Dothan, Alabama is on Pine Tree Drive . This is where I grew up and started doing ham radio in the late 60s. The tal...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Enter The Black Widow

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I have been reading about the Black Widow vertical and similar antennas using the BNM Black Widow fiberglass pole . I got over to Walmart a...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Extending the BuddiStick for Parking Lot Portable

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I have put the Buddistick at the top of my 20 foot mast before. However, just for fun I added a 15 foot wire running down the mast from the ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

20 Meter Delta Loop Back Yard Portable

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I always wanted to try a delta loop and I had my chance early on the 4th of July while visiting my Mother-In-Law in Conyers, GA. I got the i...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Shortened Dipole with Matching Section

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I tried a shortened dipole (inverted V) by using the IMAXMIN.EXE program on the W5DXP no tuner page . The minimum dipole length the program ...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Inverted V Checkout for Parking Lot Portable PLP

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It turned out after the morning rain cleared, I setup at George Park in Panama City. One goal was to test various inverted Vs with the 20 fo...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

W3EDP Antenna Checkout for PLP

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I tried it and I like it. The W3EDP is a 85 foot long wire and a 17 foot counterpoise. The LDG 817 tuner lets me match it for 40 through 10...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

N4KGL Rocket Beacon Antenna Test

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I tested the end fed half wave with the toroid transformer from the driveway today. The high end was 24 feet up. I worked K3Y/2 SKCC special...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

N4KGL Beacon Rocket Antenna Coupler

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I wound the FT-114-43 toroid with 4 turns on transmitter side and 32 on the antenna side. I setup a sloping half wave with the high end 24 f...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

N4KGL Beacon Rocket Alternative Matching Circuit

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I found this  link  that describes an alternative approach for matching the transmitter to an end fed half wave antenna. Since it was used ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

The EFHW - a monoband end-fed half wave for 10m, 20m or any other HF band

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I like using coax for the capacitor and I would really like to try one of these. Thanks to G0KYA. He did a nice job on the article .
Friday, November 26, 2010

W5ALT Antenna Notes

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Link to Antenna Notes One of the best write-ups on antennas I have seen. The following statement confirmed what I suspected but it is nice...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Portable Antennas based on hitch mount mast

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I have a new hitch mount and 4 foot military mast sections. Mast on ebay $30 shipped. there are 12 X 4 ft poles   Hitch on ebay $92 s...