Recent content by donny dobbs

A contact is a two way street and it just might help to have ears to go with the power.

You made me chuckle thanks!

The Moxon has been up a few days. 6’ above roof 20’ high. I am 18’ from power lines. When pointing at power lines receive goes away almost completely. Away and I get tons of noise. NB , ANL , and ferrite choke trying to hide this problem. I can probably go up 10 to 12 more feet . I’d then be 6’...

I used your measurements. Strangely the swr is 2 to 4 on 11 meters, lower on 10 meters. I’m going to try tuning with wires . Another problem I can’t help is the power lines are 23 feet away and seem to lower receive. I’m gonna have to raise it from 20’ to be able to use it pointing south.

KC9Q. Very helpful . I put my Moxon up today. Used the measurements for 10 meters. It seems to have the lowest set at 29.2 MHz. I’m going to adjust it out tomorrow as far as I can safely. The swr in the 11 meter band was 3 and up. Also it is only 20’ in the air. I will raise it to 33’ when my...

The liberty mike is the one I want. I’ve only seen one advertised and it is sold overseas. It has channel up down and speaker inside. Also works in mobile .

I live on a hill. I have had 2 strikes on trees in my yard this year. I don’t think lightning arresters and good grounding are enough. Mother Nature is unforgiving. I have to keep the antennas lower than I want and disconnect coax when not in use. Equipment to try and outwit Mother Nature would...

I looked at the instructions online. It calls the connection piece a Balun . Does it actually have the the Balun included? Maybe this has changed since then when it first was sold.

That link was great thanks all.

I have the 1890 kit ordered. I was thinking of getting some 7/16 tubing and extra clamps to lengthen it to the top end of 10 meters. I do not have the antenna building software. Your notes would have helped with that for sure. I need to find out how much of both bands I can get. I will get an...

Yes of course. I like the tight pattern for long distance dx. I feel I could aim quicker and have a better chance for both transmit and recieve at very long distances. I already purchased the kit. I hope the bandwidth is wide enough that adjusting somewhere between 10 and 11 meters I’ll be...

For now I want to listen I cantransmit on 11 m. I’m prepping for the test and in a couple months then I would like to be able to transmit also on 10 m. I definitely want to make that antenna adjustable and probably put it up at half wave link 18 m or so to start. But I definitely would like to...