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Well, I'm still having issues on figuring out how to hang my HF antenna as I don't have space for a tower and roter...or the money for a new vert G5 or G7.
Once I can get that worked out...I still need to drive in some Ground Rods...I should be able to get on HF.
Trees are your friend, I dont have anything holding my antennas up but trees. Wire antennas are inexpensive and unobtrusive. I have a mile of wire up in the air at my QTH and you would be hard pressed to see any of it unless it is pointed out to you.
Trees are your friend, I dont have anything holding my antennas up but trees. Wire antennas are inexpensive and unobtrusive. I have a mile of wire up in the air at my QTH and you would be hard pressed to see any of it unless it is pointed out to you.
Yep, but when I don't have the trees on my property is the issue on how to put my G5RV up in the air. I have some up...but where I would plan to put the one end would be a tree where all my electric, cable and phone are coming through.
So, I need to get some antenna pro's over to my house to walk around with me for some ideas.
Cpher, for the time being you can simply support the middle and do an inverted V. That will work fairly well and buy you some time to think about a more permanent solution. My first setup had the middle of the antenna up about 25 feet and the ends were nearly touching the ground. It worked.
I thought that the ends needed to be at least 10 feet off the gound to prevent arcing. Is that not correct? I guess the first part is finding a place to put the middle where it's not overhead of my kids on the swingset. I don't have that large of a lot...that's my issue...and on the side of the house where it's coming out, there's not much in the way of hanging area...
I put together a dummy load the other day that I figure is good for at least 1.25 kw (at least I hope so).
Got a semi functioning Daiwa 101swr/wattmeter from HRO in San Diego. Only $20!!! Took it apart, cleaned it up, tweaked it and now it functions like new. I put together a dummy load the other day that I figure is good for at least 1.25 kw (at least I hope so).
Let me add a little to this. At that power level it would be wise to know absolutely yes or no. 1.25 kw is a lot of power when you are tuned for maximum smoke Please be careful and ask for help if uncertain. The voltage for running legal limit WILL kill you. If you are one of the lucky ones with a solid state amp, the current they can draw will smoke anything undersized. Have fun and stay safe.
I was thinking more along the line of the voltage inside a amp developing 1.25 kw. The only time I use a dummy load is to tune up.at 1.25 KW into 50 ohms resistive you will have about 250 volts of RF across your load. If it doesn't kill you, it will hurt REAL bad. I would be more worried that if the load grenaded, the amp would be imediately unloaded and the voltage will get rediculously high and blow the crap out of the amplifier.
I was thinking more along the line of the voltage inside a amp developing 1.25 kw. The only time I use a dummy load is to tune up.
Let me add a little to this. At that power level it would be wise to know absolutely yes or no. 1.25 kw is a lot of power when you are tuned for maximum smoke Please be careful and ask for help if uncertain. The voltage for running legal limit WILL kill you. If you are one of the lucky ones with a solid state amp, the current they can draw will smoke anything undersized. Have fun and stay safe.
Yes, I have a regular sked with a guy I met back in my novice days. Due to the solar minimum over the last few years, we have had to go to olivia to keep in touch. We usually coordinate a frequency over email because we never really hear each others audio much but olivia is so good, you dont have to. The only problem is that since we are both running between 25-50 watts, other stations cant hear us so we get a lot of inadvertant QRM.Hey you work Olivia, thats cool. I started working Olivia last year and love it. The S/N is even better than PSK. Speaking about power and voltage. I have a transformer for my amp that measures 14x8x12 and weighs about as much as a bad of portland cement. It does 1200,1800,7500,9500 at .8 amps
It's OK, we understand. Take care of yourself first. We'll wait for yaWork has had me maddeningly busy/stressed. I'm reading the forum, but that's it.