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 41 
 on: Today at 01:15:44 PM 
Started by VK4WTN - Last post by WB6BYU
A good example of the difference between Front/Back and
Front/Rear is this pair of Moxon patterns from DK7ZB.




The first shows a clean rear pattern, good Front/Rear over
180 degrees.  The second has a deep null directly off the
back (good Front/Back), but much stronger pattern
approaching 90 degrees from the rear null, so the
Front/Rear is not as good.

 42 
 on: Today at 01:05:08 PM 
Started by WB9LUR - Last post by VA3VF
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I would be in favor of changing the rules that a boat within 3 miles of an island is "on the island" or as good as.

I still see merit in this idea since it was first mentioned some time ago. To make it more amateur radio related, I would suggest the operators and their equipment must be within a subsquare (6 digit grid square) touching land. This would be roughly a 3 x 4 miles square.

 43 
 on: Today at 01:03:14 PM 
Started by K2GLR - Last post by WB5OXQ
Look at my QRZ page wb5oxq and see if you can do something like I did on my 2022 Santa Cruz  a similar truck.

 44 
 on: Today at 12:59:34 PM 
Started by N8RFY - Last post by WB6BYU
Depends how much water proofing you need.

If the problem is in the attic where it stays dry, then
electrical tape probably is sufficient.

But electrical tape isn't always good enough for extended
use out in the weather.  I'd use some of the rubber or
silicone sealing tape in that case, the type that you
stretch when you apply it and it fuses with itself.  Then,
especially for the rubber (which can decay in the sun),
add a layer of good quality electrical tape over the top
of it.

When you apply the electrical tape, cut it, rather than
tearing it, which reduces problems with the ends
coming unstuck and eventually coming undone.

If the shield braid looks at all corroded, you may have
gotten water into the cable - in that case, test the
cable for loss before repairing it.  Once the coax gets
waterlogged, there is no practical means to dry it out.

 45 
 on: Today at 12:57:26 PM 
Started by VK4WTN - Last post by VR2AX
Maybe 10  or even 15 (?) better comparators?

 46 
 on: Today at 12:56:16 PM 
Started by EI2GLB - Last post by EI2GLB
They were a group of EI's so there was always going to be a EU bias not that they called EU only (no one ever calls EU only), they knew where and when to work over this way, looking at the leaderboard on Clublog there is EI's on it that probably never worked outside EU before never mind called in a pile up,

I doubt that there is many in NA that needed V26 for any slots that are any way active on the bands,


The breakdown from EU vs NA is pretty big!  They must be MUCH more needed out east.
Frank KG6N

 47 
 on: Today at 12:52:04 PM 
Started by EI2GLB - Last post by EI2GLB
10m FM is as about as important as 160m SSTV  ;D


Great job by the guys considering how many other expeditions were on at the same time, I didn't see too many reports of pile up's walking over each other,
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As to not hearing about any pileups and people stepping on each other, well obviously you weren't listening to them on 29 MHz Fm last week because the pileup was nuts at times but thanks to FM's capture effect us guys with large beams and more than 100 watts got thru easily.

Fortunately for me I got them first in line when they came up on 10 FM and then I posted them on the cluster and sat back and listened to the insanity on 10 FM.

 48 
 on: Today at 12:50:46 PM 
Started by N8RFY - Last post by N8RFY
Hello,

One of my runs of coax (lmr240uf) has a damaged outer cover. It was ran up through the soffit into my 2nd story ham shack. Because I have aluminum siding, when I was pulling the line through the PVC cover in a couple of places was stripped and the outer conductor was exposed.

My question is, can I simply reseal the coax with electrical tape?

Any info will be appreciated!
N8RFY

 49 
 on: Today at 12:50:00 PM 
Started by WB9LUR - Last post by WO7R
I am starting to just laugh at some of you.

You won't contribute to DXpeditions (at least one of you loudly now says as much).  As if it were some sort of virtue.

But, you won't do anything to make expeditions more reasonable to put on, either.

You don't go yourself, so you have no real feel and understanding of the burdens you are placing on other people.

You are dimly aware, at best, that the DXpeditioner is subsidizing you.

But, we must somehow freeze the world in place and pretend it is still 1966 as far as DXpeditioning goes.  When, in fact, it is not.

Love RIB, hate RIB, but recognize one key fact.

They did it in response to changes in the externally imposed rules that actual DXpeditioners have to follow.

The entire RIB technology was devised by DXpeditioners.  They did not do it on a lark or to troll you.

They did it because of externally imposed rules that you and I, the stay at homes, refuse to react to.  We want DXCC to be hard.  Well, to a degree, so do I.

But, you all don't seem to care if life changes to make it harder.  Or that it makes DXpeditioning much more expensive than it once was.  The pain we are willing to inflict on others to preserve the illusion of yesterday is immense.  I don't agree with that one.  I want a healthy DX program.  By contrast, one that is a sucker's game; that is impossible if you started after 2006 has no future.  Worse, any of those under 40 that read the tea leaves as I do will quietly leave if we all, the ones that "got ours" in the 1990s, refuse to bend. 

You worry about too many grey beards in DXing?  Maybe you should rethink your belief that the rules came on godly tablets.

RIB is a shot across some of our self-satisfied little bows.  It is telling us in no uncertain terms, from those that actually do it, that the game has changed.  And, they are trying mightily to square the circle between our fantasies of a world that hasn't changed with one that actually has.

Example:  If we relented, selectively, on the /MM thing (for instance) just for three places:  Bouvet, Peter I, and Heard, we could have annual expeditions to these places.  Our stations would not change.  The pileups would barely change.  It doesn't really affect us.

What would change drastically is the cost we impose on other people.  But oh, no, anything but that.  Making life a little more bearable for those that subsidize us is the worst.  Why, we might actually have more DX to actually work because the dollars are, in the end, limited.  Can't have that one.

Similarly all this angst on where the DXpeditioner's butt resides does not affect you and I in the slightest.  But, it does reduce the expense and reduces the ever-mounting environmental objections to dozens of places, including at least two of the three I mentioned.  Plus others I didn't.  It also, as the photo I posted demonstrates, increases the number of places we can DXpedition from.  That's more than "convenience" in some parts of the world.  It is my understanding that South Sandwich happens because of a particularly nasty little maneuver on Thule Island and only Thule Island.  Well, what if RIB means more of the islands in the South Georgia chain became possible?  Would that interest you?  It would sure interest me.


 50 
 on: Today at 12:47:12 PM 
Started by EI2GLB - Last post by WB8VLC

Great job by the guys considering how many other expeditions were on at the same time, I didn't see too many reports of pile up's walking over each other,
[
As to not hearing about any pileups and people stepping on each other, well obviously you weren't listening to them on 29 MHz Fm last week because the pileup was nuts at times but thanks to FM's capture effect us guys with large beams and more than 100 watts got thru easily.

Fortunately for me I got them first in line when they came up on 10 FM and then I posted them on the cluster and sat back and listened to the insanity on 10 FM.

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