[OZAPRS] HF antenna

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Sun Jul 3 16:49:49 EST 2005


I would not worry for Rx...

Hamish

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:50:19PM +1000, Andrew Rich wrote:
> i have no earth to radio, would that help ?
> 
> i mean no ground stake ;-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Rich [mailto:vk4tec at tech-software.net]
> Sent: Sunday, 3 July 2005 1:36 PM
> To: bbeamish at bigpond.net.au; ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au
> Subject: RE: [OZAPRS] HF antenna
> 
> 
> kewl
> 
> Brian what does a noise bridge do ?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Beamish [mailto:bbeamish at bigpond.net.au]
> Sent: Sunday, 3 July 2005 10:52 AM
> To: ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au
> Subject: RE: [OZAPRS] HF antenna
> 
> 
> Hi Andrew
> 
> Due to constraints here I am using a multiband vertical mounted at
ground
> level with many meters of radials out under the land and amongst the
shrubs
> etc, guess that by now the roots are well over the top of the radials.
> I also receive weak signals often not being strong enough to decode.
> 
> The vertical is prone to picking up interference from time to time, one
of
> my jobs soon after I retire at the end of this month is to get a dipole
or
> two up strung above the house if possible.
> 
> VK4DMI has a well position 30m dipole that works very well, both hears
well
> and decodes stations that I can only just hear in the background.
> 
> I have a noise bridge here that you are welcome to borrow if you wish to
> make use of it for testing and perhaps improving your inverted V.
> 
> 73s Brian VK4BBS
> 
> 
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>
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