[SOC] Some genuine ham related topic stuff

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Hey guys.......GENUINE ham radio questions and such are NOT the fair served
up around here !!

- Not So Anonymous


On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Bob Nielsen <n7xy at clearwire.net> wrote:

> I have never used a 30 meter beam, but there are times when I wish I
> had one :)
>
> I have known Eric, N7CL for 25 years but only recently learned that
> he had done antenna design (I always thought of him as a digital
> circuit type because of his association with TAPR and packet radio).
>
> 73, Bob N7XY
> SOC #77
>
> On Aug 30, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Rich Jones wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  I have been working for the last 3 weeks on turning my old 2
> > element 40 meter monoband HiGain beam into a 30 meter beam.  This
> > afternoon I finally got it hoisted up on a tower (not twoner) and
> > to my great delight, it works fantastic!  My first contact was a
> > IS0 in Sardina, and got a 599 report, a real good report as I was
> > listening before and after and he actually sent some 559's and
> > 579's.  I used a unusal design for the beam, it is of the ZL type
> > but one designed by N7CL.  You can google N7CL and you will read
> > and see he design, it is only 3 pages.  It is only on a 30 foot
> > tower at the north edge of my barn on a tilt up tower.  However the
> > take off is over 100 feet to the west, north and east. I did not
> > put a rotor on her yet, but I can armstrong it to the north, north
> > east and south east for now which is where I want to work anyway.
> > Do any of you SOC members use, have used or know of anyone who uses
> > a 2 element full size 30 meter beam?
> >  Wishing you all good luck in the contest, gud DX and GL for the
> > rest of your ham career. 73, Rich K8UV
> >
> >
> >
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