[HoustonHam] this is a very elementary question, but

[Ben Worrell -ne5B]

Chris

Congrats on the recent upgrade, welcome to HF!

On Monday Nights at 8pm, listen on 28.185 for CW.
The NARS club lists a Slow CW net at that time.
http://w5nc.org
I think they also have a 10m Rag Chew net, but I don't see it listed on
their site.

A 102" whip is a quarter wave for CB, and works for 10m.   According to what
I heard/read I should of had to trim it at least a couple of inches, bit it
worked with low SWR (<2) across most of the 10m SSB portion of the band.

Do you have any coax?  would be easy to put up a receiving antenna. either a
Vertical or dipole.
If interested in more info feel free to contact me directly.


73 Ben - ne5B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Mitchell" <chrism at lumin.us>
To: <houstonham at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: [HoustonHam] this is a very elementary question, but


> Hi, folks,
>
> I'm down in Pasadena with this old Radio Shack gear that a friend of
> mine bought on a whim years ago.  He hasn't yet gotten his license, so
> he wanted me to see if it worked.  Well, I have no experience with 10m
> so I don't know what I should expect, if anything, but given that the
> ground wave should work about as well as CB I am a little surprised
> that I don't hear anything but static and a few harmonic tones across
> the entire band in SSB/AM/FM.
>
> It is a Radio Shack HTX-10 and he bought it with a RS CB antenna that
> could supposedly be trimmed down a bit for 10m resonance.
> http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?
> catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=21-972
>
> Two questions really:
>
> 1) Having found an antenna length calculator but not coming up with
> anything that seemed reasonable, what length should this antenna be cut
> down to?  I do not know what fraction of a wavelength it is attempting
> to be currently.  The RS site does not have any documentation, but I am
> going to make a guess this is a very simple calculation.
>
> 2) Even if the whip is not tuned for 10m transmission, would that
> preclude ANY reception?  I may be showing my ignorance, but it's not
> off by *that much*.  I wouldn't expect to have an acceptable SWR as it
> is, but I did think that maybe I should be able to get some
> intelligible signals.  (I also thought it was a 10m antenna, though, as
> did he, until I started investigating.  Remember, I didn't buy this
> stuff ! :) )
>
> I'll be getting a Yaesu FT-817 in the mail some time next week and will
> be able to do some very close definitive TX/RX tests on it, but
> currently if I could just get pushed in the right direction I'd very
> much appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris KC5PFI /AG
>
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