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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

JULY 20,2009

Changed antenna tuner from a Elecraft T-1 to a MFJ-971. Need to free the T-1 and I hope this works. Need to drop the vee, add wire and retune it, this gives me more priority to get on this. 4 hits on DX Summit but no new states. Can not get a good output reading, anywhere from 400mw to 700mw, your guess is as good as mine.

10 July 09

Time for a update. I looked at DX Summit and my lil beacon has been reported by 25 stations. Now I've been heard in 10 states!! I even got a report from a old ham buddy WB0WQS Kelly who use to live here here, he is now in Mo. I'm impressed with this beast.