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DELTA LOOP ANTENNA FOR HF BANDSPlanning to put together a delta loop starting with the 17 meter band with vertical and horizontal polarization switching to see how effective the loop can be. I will convert the 40 meter inverted vee to a 17 meter delta loop with horizontal feed and vertical feed with a coax switch for comparison of receive levels. 1:58 PM - 2-5-2010 - comments {0} - post comment |
Description You can catch me on the 80 thru 10 Meters operating bpsk31, olivia, mfsk16 and occasional CW using the Yaesu FT-897D at a power level of 25 watts feeding the primary operating antenna the Hustler 6BTV ground mounted with 68 surface mounted radials. Included as part of my HF antenna system is an 40,20 and 17 meters inverted vee's up at a height of 30 feet in a tree located on the east end of the property and fed with a single feed RG-6,75 ohm coax and automatically trimmed with the LDG AT-200 Pro. I am presently using HRD Build 2356 digital multimode software in combination with the DXLABS DXKEEPER program for all contact logging for upload to EQSL and LOTW via Verizon DSL and the HP Pavilion A6683W desktop PC. I have incorporated, for use on the HP zv6000 notebook, an external USB Altec Lansing sound card with a homebrew audio isolation and keying circuit (opto-couplers) interface and a Yaesu CT62 (CAT) communications cable for radio control via the MixW Multimode and HRD 5.0 program. I also use the NLSA satellite tracking software to determine the best times for contacts on ISS, PCSAT and AO-51 for FM voice and 1200 baud Packet.
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