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Hi gang, I've been working on a portable version of Martin Hedman's (SM0DTK) 3-element wire beam: The Mini Horse Antenna, QST Mar. 2010. Although it needs some optimization, Dave (W6VYK) and I got it

Sounds like a good time Dave, but Cathy and I have a few things to take care of at work. You and Southern Dave enjoy yourselves and hopefully the bands will be a little more accommodating than it was

Hi All, Dave Flack and I are going to meet at the Flea Market (De Anza College) at around 9 AM Saturday. We will go for lunch afterward and possibly go down to the bay lands for some ops. Hope to see

Dear Gang, At Eric's instigation, he, I and Bill (W6WAR) participated in ?a "Field Day"* on the lawn of the Santa Clara City Library. We spent a most pleasant afternoon with perfect weather, many

Hi Eric, I place a 0 to 100 pf variable capacitor in series with the main copper loop (or any shape). Generally, resonance is somewhere in between those values. The feed loop is fed with coax, with

Dear Gang: Today I made the first tests on my qro mag loop. My goal was for it to be usable from 14 to 21 mhz at 100w. Unfortunately it tunes from 14.800 mhz to 23 mhz. Here's my question: is there a

Deon, Thanks for all your suggestions. I just got the Ensemble kit in the mail today. I am going up to the Donner Pass area next week to do some hiking and some QRPing so it is going to be a few weeks

FB Dave Give the netbook a try. Let me know how that goes. Coding: Well I could not find an open API for cwskimmer so my goal is to diy. Tony's kit. Not sure what drove the specs but a multi-band hf

Deon, OK on the computer requirements. I did a lot of looking on the web and most of the problems people were having were related to all the extra support software that some power users had running in

Dave Thought I'd comment on your SDR S/W perf question. The EMU 0202 will require high I/O capability of USB2.0 (which results in more CPU cycles. eg. at sampling rates > 96KHz. Your netbook platform

Great Dave I'd be curious to know your feedback on the rx/tx kit. Ive had great success with my txrx 6.3. operating CW and PSK. I'm not sure why he did'nt go for a Mobo design? I think there is great

Deon, Good to hear from you. The receiver is the Softrock v8.3 with the add on USB interface. Tony has a new intergrated RX/TX kit that you can configure for any single band. I have one on order and

Tim, Congratulations, maybe we can get together next week. Dave

Hey Dave, Thanks for the offer, but our younger son graduates from college on Saturday. However, if you see a small variable cap in the 0 to 100 pf range, can you pick one up for me. The PG&E RFI

Dave Glad to hear you're going on the SDR/SMT project. I'll be eager to hear what you think of the performance. My RX 9.0 (all band VXLO) is my main hf rx at home. It's impressive performance and 96

Hi All, I am thinking about going down to De Anza College for the Flea Market this Saturday. Is anybody interested in meeting there or hitching a ride? Maybe we can get an op session going in the

Dear Mr. Kierans, ? We are a small group of amateur radio operators in the Bay Area. We wonder if the KFS anatenna site in Palo Alto's Baylands?may possibly be available for our experimatations. We

Dear Gang: Apparently the KFS site in palo alto is still active, owned by Globe Wireless. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Dillman <ddillman@...> Date: June 5, 2010

Hiroki, et al: I believe you are referring to the old KFS ship-to-shore CW transmitter site out there just south of the Palo Alto Baylands.? When I was a college student at SJSU, one of the members

Folks, ? I will join you guys on Sunday. Speaking of abondoned sites, the antenna field in the marsh?in Palo Alto (near the Bay Shore preserve, visibile from Hwy 101) would be a candidate to