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What is your preferred antenna for SWL'ing on a balcony.
I have a 10th floor balcony and would like a no tune solution for an rtl-sdr v3 with an upconverter. I've tried a miniwhip from aliexpress. It was pretty deaf. The youloop looks interesting but I
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Paul Egan <paul@...>
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Re: EZNEC Antenna Simulation Software - FREE
Roger, Went on the website. It seems to indicate that one needs a licence from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for Pro versions. I don't see a subpage to download the "regular" non-Pro version.
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NI2M-Juha
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Re: Is this Wellbrook wide aperture loop faulty?
Chris Trask is a super-accomplished electronic designer - simply one of the best !!! ? Paul VE3PVB
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Paul V Birke
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Steve - Thanks for the link to the article.? I learned something from your comments and that article. Roger
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Roger Need
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Like you said Steve, they're everywhere, and they're still considered acceptable even in aviation. Critical locations though will use better locking hardware. I wouldn't want to rely on split ring
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Ron VE8RT
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Lots of info.. bit ott..its a wellbrock on a mast.. Blue locktight, plus nylock locking nut against a plain washer..job done..( on just about anything on land.) only thing that can be an issue is too
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Simon
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Re: Good Vibrations?
You could use a jam nut that way but you risk moving both nuts together and have little or no locking. When applying a jam nut you use both hands and two wrenches. The procedure and detailed
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Ron VE8RT
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Re: Good Vibrations?
I posted on StackExchange about split-ring lockwashers, including a link to the NASA Fastener Design Manual. https://diy.stackexchange.com/a/242093/129807 -- Steve Greenfield AE7HD
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Steven Greenfield AE7HD
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Thanks Steve I've snipped out most of this to get to one point of interest: On Sun, 02 Jan 2022 07:47:00 -0800 "Steven Greenfield AE7HD via groups.io" <alienrelics@...> wrote: If, =if=
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Ron VE8RT
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Greetings Once you tighten things up, how about running another nut against the nut holding everything in place. Tighten it it so it jams against the original nut. Dick/W7wkr. CN97uj
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Dick Bingham
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Hi, I understand that :-) yesterday around this time it was -42 C with a wind chill of -54 C. Other than going out to take a few photos and to clear the build up of ice on the furnace and water heater
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Ron VE8RT
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Did everyone notice that the one thing Ron did not mention was split-ring "lock" washers? That's because they are worse than no lock washer at all when it comes to being the only thing used to prevent
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Steven Greenfield AE7HD
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Thank you Ron, good suggestions to be employed when the weather calms down!
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Thank you Andrew, I feel happier about pulling them up tighter.
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Oyster Town (G0IFS)
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Re: Good Vibrations?
Hi, I work in avionics and deal with vibration related problems. Three suggestions suggestions wrt to dealing with hardware working loose. You could keep the plain nut and star washer hardware but use
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Ron VE8RT
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Re: Good Vibrations?
G0JFS Wrote <Gazing up at my Wellbrook ALA 1530 loop which has served me well as one of my receive solutions I noticed a slight tilt from the vertical. On further examination I found that the clamps
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Andrew Ikin
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Re: EZNEC Antenna Simulation Software - FREE
EZNEC runs just fine using Wine on my Linux Mint machine too.
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John VA3KOT <va3kot@...>
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Good Vibrations?
Gazing up at my Wellbrook ALA 1530 loop which has served me well as one of my receive solutions I noticed a slight tilt from the vertical. On further examination I found that the clamps that secure
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Oyster Town (G0IFS)
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Re: Is this Wellbrook wide aperture loop faulty?
I built the amplifier referenced in the Australian document. https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/documents/DST-Group-TR-3522.pdf Be aware that the output is not temperature
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Tom - VE3PSZ
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Re: Is this Wellbrook wide aperture loop faulty?
I'm not sure that I entirely agree with that figure, but it does highlight a difference between a transmission system, where the transmitter is the signal source and the antenna is the load, and a
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Martin - Southwest UK
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