I have a question about counterpoises - I plan on using an SG-231 on a balcony with the antenna wire (23 feet long) attached to a near-by tree. I am on the...
David: My apologies... for some reason, I didn't see your messages until a few minutes ago. So it's now about midday on Tuesday, April 3rd as I'm writing this....
Tom said. "I have a question about counterpoises - I plan on using an SG-231 on a balcony with the antenna wire (23 feet long) attached to a near-by tree. I am...
Jed wrote. "My dipole is about 130' end to end. This means each side is 65' in length. Again, it's fed with 450 ladder line. As an update, the 239 is on it's...
Randy wrote. "Any idea if a 100 ft folded dipole would work?" N9ZRT replies. Good morning Randy. I believe the same rule would apply with a folded dipole, that...
Hi Graham, Your words. "It would look like a 'squashed loop' to the 239" Daved-N9ZRT replies, From my thinking, more so, it may look like a squashed loop to...
... I'm refering to a folded dipole without any gaps. It is electrically one wire that connects between RF-HOT and RF-GRN. ... RF-HOT-^ ^-RF-GND 73, Randy -...
Hi Randy, You mention, "I'm referring to a folded dipole without any gaps. It is electrically one wire that connects between RF-HOT and RF-GRN." Gottcha. That...
Dave: Thanks for the information about the antenna lengths. Since my dipole is only 130' total, I haven't even tried working any 160m. It seems to work pretty...
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:13:44 -0500, "David H. Hatch" ... Wall to Wall Clear blue skies here - around 17 deg C but cold at altitude - nice vapour trails at...
Tom, I've had a local ham in the same situation as you, except he is on the 26th floor of a condo on Miami Beach. I made him my special SGC STEALTH CONDO...
Graham, send the WX over. Not recalling the counterpoise, my SG-239 found a fast match on 80 meters using my 17 foot aluminum [Grumman] canoe as the antenna....
... end to end ... the RF-Hot ... side would ... to end. ***RF Engineer hat going on*** Although it is a "practical" spec, the spec regarding required antenna...
Great input, Randy! Thanks! Dave-N9ZRT _____ From: Smartuners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Smartuners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of w8fn1 Sent: Wednesday, April 04,...
I am looking for a good used SG2000 the PowerTalk model, the one with the tuning know. Either Ham version or Marina version is OK. It can be WORKING or NOT...
My article about antenna grounding on the SGC website has generated a lot of emails asking about a source of heavy-duty DPDT knife switches on porcelain bases....
Hi all, I didn't turn up much in the way of commercially made porcelain knife switches even though there many returns on the web search as I'm sure many of you...
I have an SGC-237 installed at the back of a Jeep Wrangler, everything is all buttoned up, instructions were clear, until I got to the power leads. I called in...
... I leave mine on all the time if the truck is being driven regularly. It is my fiberglass shell which I have unswitched power to. I use Anderson Power poles...
I was wondering what experience anyone might have in mounting an SGC239 in the back of an SUV and running the hot lead out through the hatch back. I saw...
I mounted my SGC in a pickup bed thinking I could feed the antenna thru the crack around the tailgate - Wrong - I mounted it higher and drilled a hole thru the...
It would drain my battery after missing one day of driving the vehicle - If I drove a little each day it was OK - I hooked mine to the ignition switch finally...
Pick up a horn relay from auto parts or Radio shack, wire it so it closes anytime the ignition switch is on and power the unit this way. Be sure to fuse the...
Hi guys, There is a PowerPoint in PDF format at the website below. This was made about a year ago by myself. Some ideas are wild and goofy, some are just to ...
If you are going to use a relay, could you use the power from the CAT DIN to trigger it? Then it would switch with the radio. Of course, you would need to be...
You've given me some VERY good ideas how to set up my SG230 up with this file. That's FAR more concrete to me than the instructions manual that came with it! ...
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