Ah, and I forgot to mention my site: radiopreppers.com
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Ah, and I forgot to mention my site: radiopreppers.com
Gil
just bought a house, sad for me i sold my tower.
so need to get the moneys up for a new one. might try stringing up some wire and see if it works here.
as i live in a valley with hills all around me.
lots of the native rock has iron in it. good bad?
KG6TGU.
If you have the space a low loop will get you on 80 and 40m out to about 600 miles or so(cloud warmer radiation pattern). On 40, 30, and 20m I use a 43' vertical and it works well. I have the auto tuner at the base so losses are minimal. about 60 radials under it, a mix of 65', 33', and whatever I could fit in some directions. I will work on 80m but tuning is iffy so I am building a matching network for at the base.
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!! You guys want me to cut my tongue out, cut off my ears and stuff asparagus up me nose!!!
I can't put up my HF antennas due to he HOA... my 2m rigs are already on 'notice' from them about 'interference'....
I need to move out and get where I can get my antennas back up and talking again......
All my equipment is 'in the attic' and wasting away....... gee do I miss HAM RADIO.....
Nose Dive.... KC9OHL
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Can you use a temporary antenna - like a pneumatic or military type erectable? My HOA at my last place wouldn't let me have anything up permanently. If it was temporary and not attached to the house, it was okay. It wasn't necessarily allowed, it just wasn't prohibited so, no one could say anything. Besides, I was good about putting it up only when in use, which was mostly in the evenings.Originally Posted by Nose Dive
HOA CAN NOT do **** about you transmitting! That is up to the FCC and they cannot regulate it no matter how much smoke they try to blow up your rear.
Use 20-24 gauge copper wire ran in a tree or along the top of a fence. Basic longwire. It can make bends etc. to fit the space. Use a tuner and low power and get on the air with a hidden antenna! At one apartment I rented I zigzagged a wire along the ceiling from my bedroom, out the door and around the dining room, then kitchen then back through the living room to my bedroom. Fed it as an untuned loop and worked 65 countries in a year... using 20 watts from an ancient Kenwood TS-520SE to a tuner.
I'm using a long wire now since I am currently renting. It is strung between the house and a tree. It just over 100' long angles up from about 15' at the house to about 45' at the tree. I'm not transmitting on it, just receiving. It works but is pretty susceptible to noise and interference. I also disconnect it when not in use since I don't have any lightning protection. It has been up for three years with no problems other than this spring we had some wind and the trees got swinging and the wire ended up snapping - easy fix. It is very discreet. You really have to know where to look and strain to see it.
When I moved from Louisiana to Montreal 2 of my suitcases (I flew up) were radio gear. The first 2 weeks I was in a hotel. I dropped a wire out the window and used a dentron super tuner with my hw-101. Two weeks later I was in an apartment on the 17th floor. Long wire out the window again. Worked back to Louisiana on 15M most nights. Moved to a different apartment 9 months later. I was on the ground floor. The super was an retired radio operator from the Greek shipping industry. He helped me run a coax up to the roof and install a loaded vertical and a long wire. All the rest of my equipment was shipped up and I added the SB 201 amp to the shack. Latter moved to a house and put up a 48 foot free standing tower. Moved back to Louisiana and all the HF gear is stored in the barn. I do carry a 2M handi talkie sometimes.
If you want to get on the air, you can do it any place above the ground or water.
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Where at in Ohio?, We are having a technician class in the fall (Tiffin) if your interested in attending. If your too far, I would be happy to send you the current course study book. Study the book and you can take practice tests at http://www.qrz.com/hamtest/ then just find a place to take your test.
Good luck,
Jeff Michel KE8EKH
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
― Mark Twain
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15 moonbounce contacts last night, 10 new countries! I had a pile up of 6-8 stations calling me for 4 hours because I am a new station and a rare grid square. Was fun but getting to bed at 6AM kind of put a crimp in my day... running tired on 6 hours sleep! But moon conditions are good again tonight!
congrats mary!! how much power are you running? i think you have a 4 yagi phased array don't you? last time i thought about moonbounce it was recommended that you needed a full gallon of power for any kind of success. hf power is expensive enuff!!! 2 mtr. or 440 power is even higher dollar!!! wish i could get into moonbounce but money and time are limited here.73's to all . aa5ez
750 watts, my best contact last night(made 20 more) was a single yagi station running 600 watts. With JT65b digital it is possible to make contacts with a single antenna and 160 watts when the moon is on the horizon. You will be able to work the big guys running full legal limit(or more for EU) of 1,500 watts with just a Mirage brick amp and a decent 12 element yagi. Of course this is all done on SSB mode not FM...
lordy mary!! last time i read about moonbounce slow cw was the only mode used. various tricks with at least a 6 bay array to fight faraday rotation. i gptta look into moonbounce again. specially since i got some russian radar tubes that should work well on 2 mtrs. maybe even 440. i'll poke around on the web some. mite have to hock the ranch and try eme. 73's to all. aa5ez
Having full elevation of the antennas is a plus but a simple elevation rotor can be built with a satellite dish actuator arm and a basic heavy duty hinge. My first 2m eme setup used a pipe in pipe hinge arrangement and an actuator. I used a protractor and a simple meter movement to create a new meter scale in very thin paper that read the position of the potentiometer in the actuator arm that I glues in place of the original scale. Accuracy suffered in extreme cold by maybe 4 degrees, but with a 15 degree vertical beam width it was usable! I also had a camera on the boom as a backup that fed a cheap black and white monitor. When I knew the moon was centered I drew a circle on the monitor face! Keep the moon centered and good to go! I was using an Icom IC-251a, a 160 watt Mirage brick with a modified internal preamp to get the noise figure down to .5db. I made over 4 dozen initials on CW using that setup!
bunch more moon bounce contacts last night! Up to 56 initials(first time worked) on the new system since I am starting over. The old logbook is long gone along with the QSL cards, lost in multiple moves... Having fun but conditions are not the greatest! Loss is up over 3db and on a 500,000 mile round trip that is a huge difference! Fun to hear your own echos come back after 1/2 second delay!
ahhh mary!!!! that sure sounds like fun! i have had the shack disconnected from ever thing for a few weeks. all i have up is a comet 3 band vertical( i call it a semi radiating dummy load) and a full wave loop fer 80 mtrs. we have had some strong little thunderstorms with plenty of lightning. i will get more active on the low bands this fall. i enjoy a good ragchew. gotta think about this moonbounce stuff tho. i got a yaesu ft-736 r. here that i don't use much. i think the front end may be a bit noisey for weak signal like moonbounce tho. a good lpw noise transverter with my k3 for a i.f. might work good. gotta scheme and plot a little. 73's to all. aa6ez
Reason inverted V works so well for close work, radiation angle is low. turn upside down for cloud bounce. Directional.about 60 radials under it
Whatever!
Righto. But only because I don't have any idea how to make sense of what you all are talking about. I'm reading in English, you all may as well be writing in a foreign language.You lost me once you got past the word "radio". Where's a good place to start learning about all this?
Eham.com will set you free. It's a good start. It's a grand old hobby.
Roy
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KC4CTU
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