Click for more detail... Greetings from Beaverton, OR. I have had great success on 75 meters with 100 watts and my 240 ft. closed loop at 30 ft. above ground. The inverted "V" is 100 ft. of 12-2 romex, cut in half and shorted once at each end and fed with ladder line. It's overall length is 300 ft. Now that I have the amp I have found that I can connect one side of the loop to one terminal on the tuner and one half of the "V" on the other terminal then splice the other ends of the separate ladder lines together and have a total of 540 feet which work well on 160, 75 and 40. The Mosley ta-33 jr. has allowed me to do the same on 15 meters from the Oriental coastline through Northern and Central Africa. And 20 meters is a piece of cake. The HF station consists of a Dentron MLA-2500b refitted with some Russian tubes and an extra transformer. A KW is a snap. An ICOM IC-746pro with a Marshall MXL-990 condenser microphone mixed through a Behringer 1202 into a W2IHY box and into the acc-1 balanced modulator of the 746. The HF antennas are routed through an MFJ-986. Catch you on 14.168/178 (+ or -)after 23:00z, then 14.250 (Calabash), anywhere on 160, usually 1.865 and up and 7.268.5 for the "Noon-Time Net" (pacific time). The VHF/UHF side is an ICOM IC-821 with a Heil ICM microphone. Although, I switch over to the 746pro when I am net control for our regional 2 meter SSB net on Mondays, 0330z. That frequency is 144.240 mhz.(usb). 73, talk to you soon. Bob Last modified: Fri Dec 12 21:43:37 2008 Does this page contain inappropriate content? If so, Report this page... |
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