Well it appears the Hamstick has fixed my problem, you can see the one watt beacon is doing quite well. Notice I have broke the West coast hangup !! For now I won't make any changes, except probably move the beacon to another shelf,
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NR5A's Beacon Blog
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
28 May 2010
Big News ! Finally got the new antenna up. Its a 10m Hamstick with 2 radials. Also this morning I put the one watt beacon back on, its a much better unit. Besides the Cobra CB was causing friction between me and my wife. She has a touch lamp and the CB Beacon was driving it crazy.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
May 16, 2010
Worked on blog, added map. States in red is where I've been heard! Notice 2 mores states heard me today. Tomorrow I will start testing a new ant that I hope will actually should work better, it won';t be so directional. It will be a Hamstick at 12ft with 2 radials.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Fri May 14
Finally someone heard my beacon. Checked DX Summit and some station I think in Ca reported. Changes coming to the blog, and I hope a better ant sys coming soon, like soon as I have time.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Another FEEBLE Attempt
Well seem to be getting no where. Tonite I put the inverted vee back on tuned thu tuner for 1 to 1` a nd took the817 out of line. In its place put the orginal Cobra 29 at full power, looks like 4-5 wts. Now we wait and see again..
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
BACK
Lets see during the 3 day Christmas Blizzard I lost my ant, yes between nasty bitter cold weather and getting terribly sick its taken this long to bget the antenna back up. Then I discovered the transmitter was not putting out but maybe 10 MW,since it was a special built system I sent it back. I got the idea us my FT-817 at 1 watt and Norcal Pico Keyer. After getting the SWR down to useful levels it backon 24/7. The ant is a just a 10m coax fed inverted vee 16ft up running north and south.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Nada
No reports since the 9th of Aug. I did fix the antenna, it had wrapped around the 88 foot vee. I put on plastic spacers then hot glued the ends. Still using the tuner but will be easy.
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