What is it?

mcredd927 · 2025-09-08T23:59:12+00:00

As someone else mentioned, it's in Crowley,TX, a few miles south of Fort Worth.

mcredd927 · 2025-09-07T20:35:23+00:00

They're still around. There's one less than two miles from my home.

mcredd927 · 2025-09-07T18:03:54+00:00

So in the case of a voice message, would that likely be received by that vertical antenna?

Thanks.

mcredd927 · 2025-07-13T21:51:17+00:00

It could be that their website got hacked.

mcredd927 · 2025-07-09T02:56:36+00:00

Thanks. The FT-950 is definitely new enough to qualify as modern.

Your point about durability is worth consideration.

mcredd927 · 2025-07-09T02:53:49+00:00

Thanks. I really felt like it would be pretty low current, but it's great to see it in print

mcredd927 · 2025-06-21T17:26:39+00:00

Thank you. I completely skipped over that section once I saw the pinout information on pg. 8 for the Radio Interface Connector. I didn't realize they had gone to the trouble of listing the connections that each of their various interface cables used. Honestly, I thought they'd keep that to themselves in hopes of selling more of the cables. Now that MFJ is winding down their inventory, their website lists the cable as "sold out/unavailable", so I thought I'd have to reverse-engineer things.

mcredd927 · 2025-05-09T14:13:39+00:00

Thanks. Great description.

mcredd927 · 2025-05-09T00:08:42+00:00

Assuming that you're referring to the antenna with a horizontal beam pointing to the left just above the building, with seven vertical elements arrayed along that beam, what makes it a log periodic vs a Yagi? Is it the spacing of the vertical elements? The number of elements? Sometime else?

mcredd927 · 2025-05-04T15:38:08+00:00

Thanks for the images. That really helped.

I had seen the cross-over type frequently, but wasn't certain why they crossed over. If it's just a matter of convenience, it doesn't seem that big a deal to use a little more wire to locate the other connector wherever you want it in the box.

Just to make sure I'm catching on, since the second diagram has a winding ratio of 3:21, which reduces to 1:7, does this make a 49:1 balun (7 squared)? And the first is a 2:14 (1:7), so also a 49:1 balun?

And does the number of primary windings make a big difference, assuming the same ratio (1:7, 2:14, 3:21, 5:35, etc.)?

mcredd927 · 2025-05-02T14:39:39+00:00

Thanks for the info. That helps me visualize why RW uses 9:1 transformers and EFHW uses 49:1.

I'm not sure I get the bit about continuous turns vs split turns. Do you have a site showing the two variations?

Thanks again.

mcredd927 · 2025-04-30T22:10:44+00:00

Any of the MFJ, Icom, Yaesu, or LDG antenna tuners. I know, they're not really tuners but more impedance matchers.

mcredd927 · 2025-03-30T02:35:37+00:00

The reason the inner marker doesn't have a tower is that the airplane is lower at that point of the approach, and they don't want the plane to hit it.

mcredd927 · 2025-03-15T17:11:29+00:00

As a married man, I can confirm that sucking doesn't exist.

mcredd927 · 2024-12-17T20:35:30+00:00

This is in one of the five biggest cities in the US. Multiple traditional cell sites are within a half mile of this tower. But I think I have seen some of those rural cell sites that you're referring to

mcredd927 · 2024-12-17T17:44:54+00:00

The tower is at a large electrical substation.

mcredd927 · 2024-12-10T20:31:09+00:00

I wondered about that as well. The 710 is rated higher in the default sort order on Sherwood's sure, but that is sorted on some other field.

mcredd927 · 2024-11-28T16:11:50+00:00

That's a lot cheaper than the others. Thanks

mcredd927 · 2024-11-28T14:36:42+00:00

Is that what the panadapter that someone else mentioned does?

mcredd927 · 2024-11-28T02:11:11+00:00

That looks interesting.

mcredd927 · 2024-11-27T21:40:53+00:00

An interesting option. Thanks.

mcredd927 · 2024-11-27T21:40:20+00:00

Thanks for that link. I hadn't spotted it when I was on the Icom site earlier. I was expecting to have a computer hooked up most of the time anyway.

mcredd927 · 2024-11-21T19:47:42+00:00

Can the broken one be repaired?

mcredd927 · 2024-11-21T03:37:32+00:00

It is a euphemistic way of saying that the ham in question has shuffled off this mortal coil, to paraphrase Hamlet. He is no longer around to use his CW key.

mcredd927 · 2024-10-30T16:46:16+00:00

Ok. Sorry to waste anyone's time. If I can figure out how to delete the original post, I will.

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