[OZAPRS] Newb HF questions ;)

[Shaun Pitcher]

Balun may be appropriate for 80 and 160, although not sure about you 
licence for those bands, however you can always listen.

Regards, 
Shaun Pitcher 
ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au wrote on 20/05/2009 12:17:31 PM:

> Hi All,
> 
> All I can say is WHOA!@#!  Very temporary replacement for the balun 
> (buggered if I can find my heatshrink box, OR my self-amagamating tape 
> :( ) : 
> http://photos-f-0.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-
> snc1/v4704/250/124/506862762/n506862762_1874629_2686781.jpg
> 
> Turned on the transceiver, hit tune on the AT-897, which took it about 
> two clicks, then TX on AM, and my current 50mv of 50hz ripple turns into 

> a fun 120mv of 10mhz with 50mv ripple, but I'm pretty happy with that.. 
> Pressed send beacon on UI-View, she TX'd happily without messing up my 
> monitors, killing my mouse, or dumping crap to the serial ports, and by 
> the time firefox had loaded up, there was my packet sitting on aprs.fi!
> 
> VK2TDG-15>APU25N,GATE,WIDE2-1,qAR,VK4UN-4:=3312.35S\15130.12E-Testing on 

> HF {UIV32N}
> 
> Now I'm even *hearing* other stations! (well its either that or pagers.. 

> there's plenty of somethingorother that sounds like a machine gun.. ) 
> Though the DCD light on the MFJ isn't coming on, so I'll have to grab a 
> couple of recordings and shove them through the spectrum scope in 
> audacity and see what shows up :)
> 
> So one more question ;) What's a 'good' but not overly expensive antenna 

> for 30m, which will happily be mounted on one of the roof racks on a 
> commodore wagon, or on a boot side-mount on a commodore sedan? :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Damien
> 


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