LDG tuner was set to Bypass and FT-2000 tuner was off.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
New Stat Counter
You may have noticed a new stat counter on the top right side of the blog. Implemented today, February 14, 2011, it will begin to track all hits on the site and provide interesting statistical detailed. Feel free to click on the View my Stats link see see details.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Portable Rotatable Dipole
1. Attach (screw in to the opposing connectors) two hamsticks (choose your band).This would be the connectors at the upper left and lower right.
2. Connect your coax to the connector on the bottom left.
3. Clamp the fixture to a solid 20' long 1" fiberglass pole.
4. Strap the pole to the corner post of your deck or other secure vertical structure.
A rotor would be a nice twist (no pun intended).
The mount opposing the coax connector is insulated from the fixture itself.
The fixture is common only to the antenna connector shown at the top left.
Would this antenna perform better when pointed to the west than working off
the end of an east-west oriented 1/2 wave dipole?
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Working with TRX-Manager
Left monitor shows Mentone TRX-Manager. Chat room was launched from Tuscaloosa.
Right monitor is from Tuscaloosa. Working up setup to use TRX-Manager as control program.
Notice the CW window on the Mentone machine. Remote CW works GREAT!
Right monitor is from Tuscaloosa. Working up setup to use TRX-Manager as control program.
Notice the CW window on the Mentone machine. Remote CW works GREAT!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Klaus and Renate in New Zealand
Klaus is one of the wonderful people I met in my 33+ years at The University of Alabama. As a senior analyst at the Vienna, Austria, Institute for Advanced Studies, Klaus designed and coded a computer application (IAS, Interactive Analysis System) for managing and solving systems of simultaneous equation. Klaus visited the University and he and I worked with Nobel laureate Dr. Lawrence Klein at the UN to demonstrate the potential of IAS as an application to support Dr. Klein's global econometric model.
Klaus and Renate are celebrating their 33 years together by circumnavigating the good planet earth!
Way to go Renate and Klaus! Have a wonderful time!
Klaus and Renate are celebrating their 33 years together by circumnavigating the good planet earth!
Way to go Renate and Klaus! Have a wonderful time!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
First Project in the Shop
I spent January 1, 2011, or 1-1-11 as some would say, working in the new shop reworking the antenna feeds through the crawl space and preparing the single ground point. The feed lines now hang from 3/4" pipe hooks. The feed lines can be easily added or removed. The single ground point is under the steps outside the shop door. The waterproof box will hold polyphaser lightening arrestors connected to two ground rods. The smashed finger was just a bonus.
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