[Lowfer] Re: NC & RLD Results from last night

[Les Rayburn]

At 12:05 PM 2/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Looks like RLD may have more serious problem than I thought.  The bad news
>is that I will not be able to mess with the antenna much until the weekend
>but if I get a chance tonight I will try to find the problem.  I think that
>maybe my tophat connections have deteriorated causing the antenna to need
>higher inductance to load.  Since my variometer was tuned at almost maximum
>inductance to resonate the antenna earlier in the season then now I may not
>have enough inductance to resonate.  Earlier measurements at 20 miles away
>indicated that dexter was at least 3 db stronger than my signal.  This was
>not a good measurement however because I was closer to Dexter than I was to
>my beacon.  Thanks for taking the time to look and sorry for the
>complication.
>
>73's
>
>Brian Helms
>KD4RLD
>www.qsl.net/kd4rld
>


Brian,

No problem, I'm just glad to hear it's not my antennas again! I've been 
battling similar
problems on HF, with my MARS antennas. I will switch my listening efforts to
WA-TAG for tonight...but please let me know when the NC Gang is ready to go
again.

Having NC close by really made the difference though. When you see his signal
just pounding in, at least you know your equipment is working. Likely you had
a problem last week too, but we were both chalking it up to propagation.

73,

Les



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