Recent content by Captain Kilowatt

True however REALLY smart engineers can write new ones. ;)

Also at one of our sites we moved in 1986, we made a ground screen about 12-15 feet square out of stranded, bare #6 copper wire. This was installed directly at the tower base. It was basically a screen that we used to help with stability of the ground system in the immediate field of the tower...

We always used bare #10 or #12 solid copper wire for the radials in our AM transmitter sites. Never an issue. On my 5BTV vertical, I used whatever I had on hand, which was a combination of both solid and stranded insulated wire. Size was between 16 and 20 gauge.The more the merrier when it comes...

Not quite sure just how much you mean by a little north of dead south, but from your location to the east coast of Australia halfway between Sydney and Brisbane is 240 degrees true bearing. Not real sure what the deviation between true north and magnetic north is for you.

Natasha probably called him for supper. Can't beat that borscht.

LOL one night there was a bunch of us on SSB and one guy was using VOX. We were all greeted to just what it took for him to get his kids to bed when they didn't want to go.

I used to work into Ireland from Nova Scotia in the very late evening, sometimes as late as 2am. You would swear there were zero conditions for but there were indeed.

Well to be honest you did NOT say you did not have any use for it on the CB band. You should get a copy of the ARRL Antenna Handbook. It contains all the info you need to make your own traps and has some examples of multiband trapped verticals. How you implement them into the tubing is up to you...

Some people claim huge improvements. Stay away from those people. I tried it on mine. Did not really see any difference at all. The pattern was nice to start with, and any gain difference is measured in fractions of a dB

Wire up a lapel mike and clip it to the sun visor or headliner. Use a foot switch as the PTT. That's what a LOT of undercover surveillance vehicles do. It is hands free and does not have the problems of trying to use VOX in a noisy mobile environment.

Your best bet is to leave it alone and one of these if you want a vertical. I say this because if you need to ask how, than you are likely not able to understand the complexities of a multiband trapped antenna. In the end, you will end up ruining the Serio. Hygain 5BTV

Nobody has even mentioned that little thing they would have to penetrate called the ionosphere. It works both ways. I would imagine the HF signal would not be able to penetrate it for the same reason Earth based signals bounce off it. The ISS is above it.

Yes......I said that, but you may have missed the context it was meant to be. I prefer natural intelligence as opposed to artificial intelligence in humans. Basically saying that I prefer REAL knowledge as opposed to perceived knowledge.

Isn't that like asking one politician to vouch for the integrity of another politician?

I prefer natural intelligence to the artificial type any day.