I’m glad to hear that there’s another DXCC entity on the air: KH8, Swain’s Island. In fact, I listened to the pile-up on 20 meters from my car last night as I was driving home. Complete chaos. The funny thing about these recent pile-ups attributed to new DXCC entities (Swain’s and Montenegro) is that they [...]
I had another question regarding the installation of Propfire. It seems that there were a few things I needed to do to the installation part of the extension in order to facilitate automatic installation via my Propfire page. So, after some server tweaking and script updating, version 0.73.5 was created. It doesn’t add any bells [...]
There are several tough choices to make along the way in putting together a full-scale amateur radio tower project:
Antennas
bands
performance expectations (gain, F/B, etc.)
type (quads, yagis, log periods, etc.)
Tower decisions:
type (guyed or self supporting)
height (mast height and type)
location
Other things that don’t seem as important at first glance, but are actually relatively critical
coax
rotator (aka Rotor)
building permits
XYL permissions
To [...]
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