My Week in Radio
- 985 breakfast
- chatted lots of Vic and Jerry
- pota
- 2 parks: middle creek and state game land down the road
- set up multiple antennas: efhw + tactical delta loop
- telescoping antenna for CB walkie talkie
- observed some degraded propagation the next day or 2 over the weekend
- need to check and tune up my slim jim again
Questions
- KC3TYX, Vic:
Tried to tune into WA3KFT’s 6M net, but could only hear 1 person.
What kind of antenna should he have used for local contacts like that?
- W3MFB, Mike:
- PVC pipe with caps and made a rigid half-wave dipole and put it on a lightweight rotor to change direction of the horizontal broadside.
- try an omni-angle antenna (circular)
- you may also hear better in the summer.
- WA3KFT, John:
- used 2 perpendicular wire dipoles thumbtacked to the ceiling in an apartment.
- single feed point
- omni-directional
- feed directly with coax
- VHF frequencies have smaller antennas
- thicker elements give wider bandwidth (copper pipe)
- used 2 perpendicular wire dipoles thumbtacked to the ceiling in an apartment.
- KC3SQI, Wayne:
- built one that looked like a hula hoop: folder 6m dipole in a loop
- omnidirectional + wide bandwidth
- he can lend it
- built one that looked like a hula hoop: folder 6m dipole in a loop
- WA3VEE, Ron:
- double bazooka design
- W3MFB, Mike:
- WA3VEE, Ron:
- What’s the minimum to deploy in the field for HF, VHF, UHF?
- KC3TYX, Vic:
- radio, hamstick, battery
- W8CRW, CR:
- just his truck: it has everything for UHF, VHF, HF.
- KC3YSM, Steve:
- looking at plans for simple wire antennas.
- KB9VBR pota performer on a camera tripod with elevated radials
- going to try to build that one
- looking at plans for simple wire antennas.
- WA3KFT:
- handful of hamsticks
- W3MFB, Mike:
- for emergency in car: UHF/VHF radio, CB, G90, some hamsticks
- tune anything with a G90