[Lowfer] TAG Lives!

[Bill Ashlock]

John,

Thanks for the signal report. Always good to get a visual confirmation of 
what the measurements up there indicated. I left my laptop in Ellsworth and 
have no easy way of looking at the signals down here. Maybe it's time to 
repair the old computer whose on- board sound card failed. some time ago. 
This 'dual life' requires a dual set of toys (tools too) or it drives you 
nuts loading the car every time you make the trip.

Because your antenna up there is so dependable, and in fact taken for 
granted, I've forgotten what you are using as a conductor. Was that RG-8?

Speaking of RG-8, I bought a box containing "at least 200ft" at the Ham fest 
for $20 - good stuff too. When I measured it at  home it came to 400ft!! Now 
it just sits there because I can't decide whether or not to cut it to the 
needed 200ft for a second loop in Ellsworth - or put it on hold for a super 
600M loop (or NOT, depending on yet-to-be-determined loop parameters at that 
frequency :).

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Andrews" <w1tag at w1tag.com>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] TAG Lives!


> Bill,
>
> All three signals are nicely visible here this morning -- can't see a big 
> difference between the W's and the M's. Nice to see the sun, too!
>
> The TAG antenna was last tweaked in mid-October. The transmitter readings 
> and antenna current were exactly the same yesterday. Had quite a few small 
> branches come down over the winter, but none that involved that antenna. 
> The branch for the RY (hifer) antenna did come down, so I'll have to re-do 
> that installation if I decide to put RY back on the air this year. Doesn't 
> seem to be much Hifer interest these days.
>
> JA
>
>
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