[SOC] Some genuine ham related topic stuff

[w9ya]

Er um... please change "fair" to "fare".....(Although either is correct I
suppose in as much as it ain't "fair" to serve up such "fare" and remain
truly 'Second Class'..........

Not So Anonymous


On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM, w9ya <w9ya at qrparci.net> wrote:

> Hey guys.......GENUINE ham radio questions and such are NOT the fair served
> up around here !!
>
> - Not So Anonymous
>
>
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> 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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