[OKDXA] Balanced Line Feed

[AC5UP]

> The last QSO I had on 6 was with you when I checked in your net a few 
> years back.  I understand there are signals on 6 now and then!  We'll 
> want every band and mode we can get on FD next weekend.
And that's the beauty of a big wire... Won't bust every pileup on every 
band but once you get handy with the matchbox it's pretty much plug 'n 
play wherever you want to go. One might even speculate that a trained 
hand can score a tune-and-pounce Q faster with the wire than the 
traditional tribander and rotor setup, plus the broader pattern is 
exactly what you want for FD.

As for VHF, last Wednesday evening the LPFM jazz station on 107.9 in 
Tulsa was stomped by a signal out of Arkansas and as the evening 
progressed the propagation moved to the west. Got to watch the 10pm news 
from KFOR TV in OkieCity with light snow but otherwise decent reception 
from the rooftop aluminum pointed in the wrong direction. Haven't seen 
condx like that since last summer. On the FM side KOMA was full quieting 
in stereo on 92.5 MHz but I could barely pull KOSU in Stillwater (91.7) 
out of the noise floor. VHF is like that. Ten miles can make the 
difference between hearing and not hearing.

In other news, I've discovered the BA club is advertising a 10m FM net 
on Thursday night at 8pm on 29.6 MHz... Not a peep heard this past week 
and I'm not surprised. How many of us will tweak the RF thrower for the 
top of 10 instead of the bottom? And how many antenna types are good for 
the entire band? Off the top of my head I'm thinking a Rhombic or 
Terminated Wire can do that trick, along with a Step IR (?), but in 
terms of a broad pattern that can hear everyone in the net kinda' setup 
it would take a Ringo tuned by Danny DeVito.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.............. But it would be 
a specialty setup.