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Hey gang yet again will be active from home QF11NS62LV with 6, 2, 70 and 23cm this year the first time with 23cm horizontal at 10m in the air

Cheer's VK3VKT
Andyk
Camperdown Vic

VK3ZAZ wrote:I have one on 23 can put up dimensions butvit looks like what you have there
they have 15-18 dbi and I have worked out 500 k under good conditions with 15= watts

Thanks any info or pics would be greatly appreciated

http://www.radiospecialists.com.au/ante ... 20yagi.htm.

I have one of these i want to modify for 23cm anyone done this

Hi Greg

just tried it and it looks good

is this something you are going to sell or give to the average Ham to use??


cheer's Andy

Lou what edition of AR and what page is the letter????????????????????????????????????????????

As a lighthouse activator for the last 2 years i have noted that when the RD starts Saturday the illw action drops right off. and as a station trying to contact other lighthouse stations around the world you have a choice either find a good frequency before the RD starts and defend it constantly, wh...

Thanks Mike will hopefully catch up


Andy

Members of the MERC will once again be trekking down to Cape Otway lighthouse from the 15th to the 18th of this month for the international lighthouse weekend we will be transmitting on all bands throughout the weekend we will also be using the old navigational beacon antenna to transmit from as wel...

I DID A search but came up with nothing really

so

What apps are people using in the ham world ??????

For a start, my opinion is that it is not correct to call any station using a partial callsign. I ignore callers who use partial calls. My observation is that many ops do not use phonetics when sending their callsign, or when calling other VK stations at least use phonetics for the suffix. Not unti...

Hi I have a dilemma In last nights Harry Angel Memorial 80m Sprint there was one operator that was calling cq and i answered with just "VK3" to get his attention. he came back with "5/9 and a number straight away. i then said "VK3FRDN". his response "VK3FR 5/9 and same ...

But where did the classifieds go ???????????

A presentation and discussion night by Mark Tell from the ACMA will be held at the MERC club rooms on the 28th feb 2014 @ 7.30pm Anyone and everyone is welcome to come and have a listen and a chat the Club room location is Keilor Scout Hall in Bonfield Street, Keilor please let me know if you are at...

Well I'm chuffed at my result my first contest i bothered to log and enter i get 18th overall in section E and 1st FCall in same section So you should be Andy - well done. A perfect example of how someone with less bands can get in amongst it. I'm surprised that so few foundation licensees have a c...

Well I'm chuffed at my result my first contest i bothered to log and enter i get 18th overall in section E and 1st FCall in same section

Hello All A couple of days ago i put my 10m vertical dipole up on my squidpole. i got no contacts but swr was good at about 1.5:1 measured by my icom 718's inbuilt meter. Today i put up the same antenna to try and make a few contacts with my AX call. however when transmitting the swr meter showed w...

A presentation and discussion night by Mark Tell from the ACMA will be held at the Melbourne Electronics & Radio Club rooms on the 28th feb 2014 @ 7.30pm Anyone and everyone is welcome to come and have a listen and a chat the Club room location is Keilor Scout Hall in Bonfield Street, Keilor ple...

I have here a OCF which is a 1/3:2/3 design 11m and 33m are the lengths of wire with a home made balun now i didn't make the balun but i would like to know if it is a 4:1 or 6:1 I am about to delve into the books to learn how to tell the difference but seeing this topic i thought i would ask "i...

Thanks Trent

I found that one too it does not cover the mounting of the counterpoise to the main antenna though I think this is something someone has put together

Hoxin HF-5DX Multi-band Vertical HF or Hokushin HS-HF-5 not sure on the spelling but both will get some sort or result from google Im after a Instruction manual or a photo mainly to cover the radials and how to attach the (trap/counterpoise) with the radials to the main antenna any help would be gre...