Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: APDrone on June 19, 2016, 01:18:32 PM
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Anybody playing next weekend?
I'll be running 6M for K0USA, Ak-Sar-Ben ARC in Omaha, NE. Look us up!
73
KA4ZZQ
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If sporadic-E opens up 6M like it has been in the last few weeks, I will be on from the house. Single hop from here usually lands in colorado
What modes will be used?
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I'm just doing SSB. If it's open we'll be hanging around 50.200.
100w into 4 element beam.
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I have a 5 element with 100 watts on 6 meters, fed with 75 ohm hardline. Running a year long experiment with it then will change it out with lmr400 and see if I can tell any difference on tx and rx. Using an analyzer and the principal that every 1/4 wavelength will show exactly what is read out of the port on the antenna, I have matched it via resonance around 50.100. Last check SWR at the beam and back at the end of the radio are around 1.3:1 with contacts in the log to show it works.
If I had the room I would do a side by side test with two of the exact same antennas side by side, one with LMR400 and the other with 75 ohm hardline. But a city lot and a wife that is already complaining I have too many antennas do not help :(
Plus the hardline is free, was thrown out from a spool end remnant. Perk for working for the cable company :D