Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
The demise of SW broadcasting has been very sad.
Bill was a UASF radio operator before getting a PhD and becoming a professor of entomology. He's now in the memory care unit where my brother in-law
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
just a thought, since there is so LITTLE SW activity today and HF hasn't been the best since march may you could look at other options. Maybe a digital hotspot and a small HT Allstar, Dstar, Echolink,
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KA2ING
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
No idea at all. I stapled 100 ft of #26 stranded wire to Bill's ceiling today in a rectangular pattern and ran out of wire just before i ran out of ceiling. I'll go check how it's doing tomorrow.
It
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
Re the EMI filter did you find this to be a benefit and if so what noise did it help with?
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Dave Morris
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have an SDR H field probes, spectrum analyzer etc. available. It will take Bill a while to learn to operate the FRG-7 so I'm going go with ~85' of wire stapled to the
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite@...> wrote:
I'm assuming he won't be allowed to have an outside aerial (though it
might be worth asking - there's a care home near me that has allowed
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Laurence Taylor G7MHZ
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
Great thanks for the info, much appreciated
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Robbie Megaw <koonektid@...>
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
I made a cardboard template that just fit the socket. I moved it around until I found a good location surrounding the power outlet and marked it off with Magic Marker. I then used a nibbler to cut
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
With mine I was very impressed that it was quieter than my long wire, as being completely off grid rural, I? suffer horrendous interference from the PV controllers. I bought this just? to try, and
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Pentagrid
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Re: Almost ready to give up but...
Just wanted to publicly thank a member here for privately offering FRG7 parts.
Good people here.
I've put the FRG7 aside while I torture a Heathkit now.
If I find a fix in the future, I'll
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Bob W8RMV
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
Indeed a active loop antenna can work well (when you don't have to much noise in the building).
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73 Lex PH2LB
https://www.ph2lb.nl/
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Lex PH2LB
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
I can recommend this, it is compact, and can be placed inside against a wall. I have one, it works very well. The output cable can be connected to the SO259 aerial connector on the
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Pentagrid
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Re: Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
Hi, could you please document or show some pictures of how you did the emi
socket
I also have being thinking of doing the same as i have a spare emi socket
sitting here unused at the moment
How did
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Robbie Megaw <koonektid@...>
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#272
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Antenna recommendation for nursing home setting
I've been prepping my FRG-7 to lend to a gentleman who lives in a 12 x 13 ft room in a nursing facility..
I'm looking for suggestions of what sort of antenna to set up for him. Do I need to connect
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: Digital readout
The display input connects to the Yaesu tp02 on the AF/IF board, the positive supply to the terminal strip that supplies the lighting, the negative lead grounded. The display will come on/off with the
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Pentagrid
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Re: Digital readout
I am also interested - thanks Marcel
Andy
G0BZW
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andyporter@...
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#269
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Re: Digital readout
Great, thanks for that.
Ian G1MZW
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ian.gillson@...
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Re: Digital readout
Yes, I will share it, no problem.? 5 Other people have asked me for this counter. I'm drawing a pcb for it.
It is a prototype at the moment with a buffer amplifier for the HF-input and an opamp for
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Marcel, de PA8MA
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Re: Digital readout
How do you hook it up?
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Randy K7RAN
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Re: Almost ready to give up but...
Latest update:
Q105 just doesn't seem to want to mix.? It tests well, but it is producing 42MHz instead of the 2-3MHz. ?? The 2 IFs coming in to it are fine.
So I am going to order MPF103's (can't
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Bob W8RMV
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