I just moved into my first home that has no Home Owners and can put all the antennas up that I want. Well as many as I can without my wife screaming. I am building my station and have heard many things about properly bonding my station.

This is my thought...

Ground my station at a local station bus, that being grounded in a star config outside my window. From that bus also ground to the cold water pipe at the window. Then I will have to ground the water pipe at the power company's ground. This should essentially bond our grounds and will be a good ground. Is there anything more I can do? Any ideas? Should I run a ground between my station bus and the power company's ground. But that will make an additional path for the strike.

Hopefully the water pipes will make the shortest path to ground.

Question about control operating, I could look this up but dont have time right now and maybe someone else can benifit from this question.

My wife is a Technician and I am an extra. (I should know this but haven't been active on HF enough and been to Iraq for a year.) Can we, everyone at the site use my callsign for QSO's on HF? (I will be there with them.) If so then anyone here can just put out a CQ and complete a QSO without me identifying for them. As long as they id correctly when supposed to. We are going to the park with the family tomorrow and I want to try to get some kids involved and to earn 20+ extra points. My wife wants to try some HF as she has passed her General written but is practicing her CW.

Thanks for the response.
73's

Tom

I would be in a mobile setup using 2 radios for part of the day. IC706 and Screwdriver driving and stationary. Both using seperate bands so we would be 3C.

At night I will connect my mobile (IC 706) to a dipole.  Also, another radio to a dualband 2m/70cm antenna on a pole.

For this setup we would be "3A"? Correct?

Thanks

I have a setup-up of HF/VHF/UHF, I have 3+ operators: myself, my wife, and some kids. We will only be operating one at a time.  Since I am the control Operator. Would our station be a 1C?

If my wife wants to break off and operate VHF/UHF at the same time then do we use 2C? Or create seperae logs and both will be 1C?  

Since she is a tech, and can/if she uses my call sign for our site she on VHF and I on HF would that make us a 2C?

Thanks,

Thomas Jenkins

Question about control operating, I could look this up but dont have time right now and maybe someone else can benifit from this question.

My wife is a Technician and I am an extra. (I should know this but haven't been active on HF enough and been to Iraq for a year.)  Can we, everyone at the site use my callsign for QSO's on HF?  (I will be there with them.)  If so then anyone here can just put out a CQ and complete a QSO without me identifying for them.  As long as they id correctly when supposed to. We are going to the park with the family tomorrow and I want to try to get some kids involved and to earn 20+ extra points.  My wife wants to try some HF as she has passed her General written but is practicing her CW.  

Thanks for the response.  
73's

Tom

I know it has the WX alert and I have read the manual but I just want to see if I am missing something.  Does it just sound the 1050hz tone and that's it?  It would be nice to passivly monitor the wx channel in sub, sound the tone, and activate the channel when an alert happends. I guess I am asking too much.  

I aquired a eurocom (canadian) laptop from my sister. She has lost the power cord a year ago. They run for near $50 and it’s not really worth it for such an old laptop.  I want to get started in packet and other digital modes. I need any information on the pin voltage and polarity.  This is the information I pulled up.

Adapters that fit, Prostar 1100 AC-D57R, 21-24v. A company that makes a generic OEM spec adapter is HI Capacity (http://hicapacity.com/)

It is a 4 pin connector.  I may want to adapt the battery because its 10.8 volts, but that is power protection in my mind.

Thanks for any help, I cant wait to get my set-up working.

The whip, I agree; I was/am trying to take an easy way out. But, with HF mobile there is no such thing.  I was looking for a simple coil for inductance at a recent ham fest, didn't find one.  I was goung to emmulate one with a transmatch / versa tuner gear but didn't find one also that was decent.  Before I spend lots I think I will just save and invest in a screwdriver antenna, that way I will have freq agility. I checked over my ground and it looks good, radio grounded with 6in cable, engine grounded to the frame with factory ground of 4in. Antenna grounded to roof/back hatch with 5in cable. I still have some to go but should be ok, Ham Bands have no problem.  

This really buggs me, I have to sign up with something and can't seem to get my stuff togeather. It's been 3 months.

Thanks for your help, any other ideas I am wide open.

Thomas Jenkins

I will check it out again, I did add a 240 pf mica across it dosen't help any that I noticed. I need to find someone with an analyzer, I wonder what the resonate freq is? Of if it is even close.  I will have to add more grounding or maybe check my connections again.  

Hustler sent me a cutting chart and I had to cut the antenna almost in half.  The frequency is KCE.

I have a TS440 mobile with the Hustler RM80 cut to the mars frequency. The transceiver seems to have problems as if it had a bad ground. While using the tuner (internal) the swr meter waves, just like stray capacitance in the line.  I can jump to 80 meters and 40 meters and tune the antenna up just fine. Even though it has been cut to that frequency, just tells me the tunner is working even if I may be putting out 1.5 watt from the antenna. Dont care just want to tune the rig to that frequency.  I know I really need an swr analyzer but dont have one, would rather geta carolina cyclone screwy antenna. Any suggestions?

I am looking for a 6+ channel unbalanced passive audio mixer. I have several computers and radios that I want to combine to just one output. I dont want to spend a lot or build one from scratch. I see many projects for homebrew 4 channel mixers, but I need around 6 ch.  I will be willing to build a kit but not homebrew. Does anyone have a manufacture in mind? Thanks.