[QCWA] What have you been up to lately?

[Ed - ad7gr]

Hi Jeff,

Home renovations and other property improvements have kept me pretty 
much off the bands since last September.   A major project was 
converting a screened porch into my new ham shack... this was a vertical 
learning curve for me but it's done now and I finally moved in January. 
   Tearing off  and disposing of the old siding, putting up sheathing, 
wrap, and new siding on the house was another time consuming work and 
that project finished this May.

My 80M doublet was destroyed in a 53 mph gust we had.   When I checked 
the antenna after the blow I found the window-line draped around my 
vertical... not good... it had torn off the antenna's feed point.   I 
was wanting to make my own open wire ladderline for many years and 
seeing the broken window line draped around my vertical was the 
motivation I needed and it was fun to make.   Have redesigned my website 
a bunch also this past winter-spring.

Now to get back on the air.

It is interesting hearing what others have been doing.

Good luck on your projects...
73,
Ed - ad7gr
www.edlinko.net


On 5/28/2013 4:27 AM, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
> Since the first of this year, I've had an ongoing project.
> Part one was an antenna multi-coupler to allow several receivers
> to share a singe antenna.
> The second part was coming up with a wide band antenna that
> doesn't need tuning, so that I could listen to several receivers
> at the same time tuned to different frequencies.
>
> For part one, a Maxim MAX4022ESG 14 pin SOIC chip turned out
> to work quite well. With a small handful of parts, I have a 50 ohm
> input and four 50 ohm outputs with 0 dB overall gain.
> The bandwidth on that is close to 0.1 to 150 MHz.
>
> For part two, I have been investigating the terminated folded dipole.
> Being on a bit of a budget, this means "make your own" rather than
> buy one for $300 or up.
>
> I have something in the air currently, but it's not optimized yet. But
> the results are promising.
>
> Jeff-1.0
> wa6fwi