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Electric Utilities is one that you’ll want after a big storm and lots of power outages.
http://forums.radioreference.com/new-hampshire-radio-discussion-forum/110044-psnh-frequencies.html
Also during an emergency you might want to be able to monitor FRS/GMRS frequencies – These are the low cost HTs you see on many building supply and in many stores for public consumption.
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/FRS/GMRS_combined_channel_chart
Hi Murray:
I echo Fred’s comments. Besides Fred’s blog, I really recommend reading http://www.K0BG.com, it’s “The book” on mobile HF. I’ll be happy to show you my mobile HF install and talk antennas, etc.
73 Dave N1RF
Hi Tony,
Where was this question last month, when I was doing mine.
I put put my ground rod about 3-4 feet away from my house. To sink the ground rod I used a water drill which worked really well and is very easily constructed for less tha $20. Here is essentially the model I used.
Attached to the ground rod I have a Z bracket (the thing you got at HRO) with two lightening arrestors, one for my vhf, and one for my hf antennas, I also have my #6 solid copper wire which I have run to the ground bar of the AC panel inside the house. Like you my AC main ground is a long way from the shack entrance. It is important to ground your lightening protection to your AC main ground otherwise one day you touch something and you become the element that completes the circuit- not a good outcome.
For RF grounding, I use separate 1/2 inch braided copper to a 4′ length of 3/4″ copper pipe from each of my components attached with hose clamps. Then 3/4 inch copper braid also attached with hose clamp to just before the exit of my house where I have joined it to #2 heavy gauge stranded copper out through the wall and to the ground rod.
I will upload pictures when I get home this weekend.
Like you at the Tech Night, I struggle with disconnecting the feed lines outside of the house, how do I keep my coax from getting wet? I waterproofed the connections the best I could at install with the rubberized coax tape and electrical tape, which completely covers the attachments on both sides of my lightening arrestors, hoping this would be a somewhat permanent connection. I don’t relish the idea of doing this everyday. I do however unplug the feed lines from my gear inside the shack.
The correct answer, of course, is to unplug outside, but I wonder how many folks really do that? I would welcome comments on that point with the full understanding and acknowledgement that this is merely an expression of what others do, and in no way advice on how I should proceed!
I mostly followed Fred’s (AB1OC) article when planning, any errors in implementation were mine…
73
Greg
Fred I think having the 4 x 4 concreted in the ground provide to me a couple of options that I might not otherwise have it allows me to elevate the rotor should I go with the bottom mounted rotor as opposed to a mast mounted rotor that really enables me to keep the rotor out of the snow in the winter time. The additional rigidity that the 4 x 4 provides would allow me to actually put a ladder on the 4 x 4 not in the mast itself which should help when extending the mast. Also I am hoping it will provide horizontal support additional to the guys.
Sounds great! Thanks, Fred. I’ll definitely try to make it out to the next few. Will put it in my calendar sooner vs later.
I emailed a docx file on a newsletter submission about the SSC process to KC1ECE but haven’t heard anything from him
Curtis:
FB. VERY COOL! Congratulations. And the JT contacts you have logged
on your QRZ page look impressive.
Dave N1RF