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One of the houses I lived in had a flat roof. Using Dr. Krause’s Book, I built a simple W8JK 2-element Flat-Top. I nailed a 4-foot length of 2×4 support plank on each corner of the house and used wire feedline through a Harvey-Wells matchbox to load it on all bands. I worked all over the world with that setup!
Absolutely!!! There’s a reason the 1/2 wave dipole is the basic building
block of most antenna constructs. Compared fairly, the dipole will beat
or match any single element antenna. Not just my opinion. Visit Tom Rauch’s website, www.w8ji.com.
Another interesting e-magazine is called TALKING ELECTRONICS by Colin Mitchell.
http://www.talkingelectronics.com/
Colin created TALKING ELECTRONICS magazine back in the 1980’s Australia to help educate those interested in electronics. The website provides lots of information and circuits for those that wish to learn electronics and gain some insights into practical construction techniques. Just scroll down the left side column on the interactive index page to sample and explore some of the available documentation:
http://www.talkingelectronics.com/te_interactive_index.html
Might be a great way to get the youngsters interested.
If you like the DIT file please let me know. You may want to return to the K7QO CD and listen to files: 028.mp3, 011.mp3 and 054.mp3
Any new ideas or suggestions that can help folks learn to recognize some of their trouble characters: F, L, B, V etc. are welcome. What works for you may work for others as well.
Practice, Practice, Practice… the best Practice comes from ON the Air contacts!
Not a newbie question at all; my mistake for neglecting to include it.
Yes, it will be at the normal monthly club meeting venue (Nauss Hall) at 7pm.
Thanks for checking.
Sorry for the newbee questions but is the time 7:00 and is the place at the monthly meeting venue?
Ernie Swersky KC1GIR
Monday 10/10 and nobody checked in on the air or on the webex phone line. Fred had contacted me to let me know he was not going to be able to join this evening. I decided after calling CQ for 20 minutes to pull the plug for today.
Hopefully, some of our group will have a chance to join us again on Thursday evening.
Mike
Thanks Fred and Mike for the input. Since I have the long weekend, I’ll try playing around with it to see how well it works. So much to learn!! And I mean that in a good way.
Mike,
Fred – AB1OC has setup a conference call that you can call into… this was posted on this forum about two weeks back and you can find it under the topic:
CW Slow Net Webex Information-
We have dropped the Webex ONLINE feature and just use the voice call-in line.
We meet on Monday and Thursday at 8PM Local time… Presently using 14.052 Mhz for the on the air practice QSOs.
Please call in on the phone line using the dial in credentials provided in the Webex message. We’re flexible and hope to help folks learn and improve their skills.
I also have some CDs with the K7QO code material we used as a study guide. Please contact me and I can get a copy of one to you. Just send me an email at [email protected] and let me know how to reach you.
Welcome aboard the slow CW net.
Mike