[HiDARG-MEMBERS] 6meter Net Experiment

[Mike Darling]

Here's mine, inspired by Kent. Didn't have extra PVC pipe laying around,
but found that a Costco brand drink has diam of 60 mm. Wound 10 turns of
coax around the plastic bottle. Like Kent didn't want to waste 1400 mm of
coax, so just cut a piece of cheap low voltage wiring and soldered to
center conductor. Will see how it does tomorrow.

Mike D
N7GND

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 11:54 PM Randy Tomer <w6ra.randy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kent, it looks like your swr has climbed to nearly 3:1 down in the low
> part of the band where ssb is used.
> I'm surprised at how narrow the useable swr bandwidth is.  Lets see how
> the others do, it may just be a
> characteristic of the antenna's design.
>
> 73, Randy
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:17 PM Jeff Moore <tnetcenter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have to agree with Kent - SWR meters lie.   In addition, contrary to
>> popular belief, low SWR isn't an indication that your antenna is working
>> well (or working at all)!  You can have low SWR and still have a dummy load
>> hanging on the end of your transmitter.  An analyzer is a much better
>> option, but even then - analyzers look at what goes to your antenna, not
>> what comes out of it
>>
>> Jeff Moore  --  KE7ACY
>> .
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:05 PM Kent Garliepp <kent.af7qo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dave,
>>> SWR meters lie all the time. In truth most are impedance meters. We
>>> mostly use them in order to keep our modern transistor radios happy. Most
>>> of them, like mine, should be called antenna analizers. That said, my
>>> transceiver will be happy, but, will I if nobody hears me?
>>> 73,
>>> Kent AF7QO
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 4:50 PM Dave <dave at freitags.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kent,
>>>>
>>>> Great job.  Looks like a spider with the tie wraps, but SWR meters
>>>> don't lie ;-)
>>>>
>>>> 73, Dave
>>>> W7KFO
>>>> On 3/19/2020 4:41 PM, Kent Garliepp wrote:
>>>>
>>>> OK you got me I'm in, both FM and SSB vertical.
>>>>
>>>> Had to build an antenna though. I found a mobile RG58 cable that had
>>>> one bad end in the junk box. It has foil but what the heck. It wasn't long
>>>> enough and I really didn't want to strip 50 inches of coax anyway so I
>>>> stripped a short bit and soldered on 50+ inches of lamp cord. I found an
>>>> almost two inch vitamin bottle in the recycle bin and wound on an extra
>>>> turn just in case. I doubled over and twisted the end of the lamp cord so
>>>> it was 50 inches long. This leaves extra for tuning and a loop to tie to.
>>>> Ya! It tuned out the gate, not perfect and not pretty, that will come
>>>> later.
>>>> See the attached pictures.
>>>> BTW, this is also called a sleeve dipole.
>>>> 73,
>>>> Kent AF7QO
>>>> af7qo at arrl.net
>>>> kent.af7qo at gmail.com
>>>> 541-728-0989
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 12:58, Max Vaughan bb <maxv at bendbroadband.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> OK we will be experimenting with 6meters this Sat & Sun at 10am
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 50.52 is the freq……
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Listen on SSB first to see if anyone can hear anyone else…….
>>>>>
>>>>> ……then we will toggle over to the FM side to see the same thing.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Those listing on SSB when someone is on FM… will hear odd noises.
>>>>>
>>>>> Very informal and who can do what.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If interested in participating….let me know who can do SSB and FM or
>>>>>
>>>>> just one or the other.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ....Max
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 73
>>>>>
>>>>> Max Vaughan KF7MAX  Secretary
>>>>>
>>>>> High Desert Amateur Radio Group
>>>>>
>>>>> PO Box 723
>>>>>
>>>>> Bend, Oregon USA   97709
>>>>>
>>>>> 541-706-1475
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> www.hidarg.org
>>>>>
>>>>> maxv at horizonps.com
>>>>>
>>>>> kf7max at arrl.net
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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