[Lowfer] Beacon JAM 187khz SoCal upgrade complete

[Ed Phillips]

Frequency????

W6IZJ San Gabriel

Lee wrote:

>JAM 187khz is back up Friday noon till Monday noon. The upgrade was to raise the coil 8 feet up to the roof line. The 7 feet of 1/2 inch copper pipe removed from the mast now connects the bottom of the coil to the grd rod/radials. The radiating mast and top hat are now above the roof line and radiating to the horizon instead of the previous set up that coupling RF into the stucco exterior walls, sheet metal water heater enclosure, plaster chickenwire in the wall, cast iron bath tub, cast iron sewer pipe, aluminum window frame, cold water pipe, etc etc. The first obvious change I noted was I needed to use 10 or 11 more coil turns to resonate. Not a problem because of the multiple taps on the coil. This makes sense because I'm no longer getting as much capacitive coupling to the structure. Good RF current also. Yea! I will post a picture of the new configuration LWCA. Next move would be to get some tuned elevated ground radials.
>73zzz and Happy New Year
>Lee
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