VK Logger Ham Radio Forum Archive

Steve, Are there any friendly hams around that have contacts with riggers doing any system upgrades? There must be someone around replacing feeders or stripping down towers? We usually end up throwing out our old LDF4-50 even though it is still perfectly useable (no nicks or kinks) because no-one wa...

Hi Trent, I'm not going to argue with you if you are saying that many use far heavier grade of feeder than they really need- I see it often at land mobile bases where LDF5-50 is used at 80MHz on a 20m run. Sadly people don't understand loss, instead choosing to waste money where no benefit can be ga...

There is already an embargo in place over the 400MHz band for all but emergency services. One issue I haven't seen raised anywhere is the conflict between land mobile base stations operating in 400-420MHz and co-sited NextG bases which have a receive window (50MHz wide) within the 2nd harmonic of th...

Hi all, I've been involved in a lot of radio network roll-outs over the years and still strongly lean towards LDF4 or LDF5 for reasons of life span. In recent years I've seen an increased use of LMR400 but LDF is still overwhelmingly the preferred cable. I've recently inspected some installations th...

Hi Wayne,

I put out quite a number of calls yesterday & today on the FM call frequencies & never heard a squeak. I was feeling veeeeery lonely!

Cheers,


Richard
VK2AAH

Hi John, My first post here as I have only just decided to rejoin the amateur fraternity after an 8 year hiatus. I am one of those middle aged men with lots of work & little time, I started out in radio as an early teen in days when radio was something remarkable to me, it prompted my choice of ...