Monday, November 21, 2016

End-Fed Wire

I have had successful contacts on 80, 40, 20, 17, 15 and 12 meters. 10 meters just will not tune for me. I will have to do some more research. I also need to look into grounding and reducing my noise floor.


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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Current Antenna setup

Hello:

  I am currently using a 5KW 9:1 UNUN with a 58 foot radiator and a 27 foot counterpoise. I do not have a ground. Lots of static during the days.
Have worked 40 meter SSB, 80 meter Winmor, 40 meter Winmor, and 20 meter PSK31 so far.
Need to eliminate noise. Would grounding the antenna help, or would it just blow fuses???


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Monday, November 14, 2016

Antenna I want to buy in the Spring time

MFJ-2389

VERTICAL, COMPACT, 8-BAND, 80-2M + UHF, 200W PEP

MFJ-2389

One antenna to do it all...


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Got a new 9:1 UNUN

Got a new 9:1 UNUN that can handle 5KW USB. added 58 feet of wire and a 27 foot counterpoise.
Need to hang it better in the tree, but for now it seems to tune all bands but 10 Meters. 80, 60, 40, 30, 20, 15 tune well. 15 is touchy, but tunes. I will try to hang it higher and better in the tree tomorrow.
Made 2 contacts today so far. France and Florida on 20M PSK31.
model-9135-9-1-unun-1-5-54mhz-5kw

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Hopefully Back in Bidness!!!

  I ordered a fully assembled  uBitx V6.1  last month from  India . When it arrived, the encoder shaft was busted, and the screen was cracke...