The official documentary video for WRTC2014 is now available!

The official documentary video for WRTC2014 is now available! The video was produced by James Brooks, 9V1YC, and runs approximately 59 minutes. James took advantage of 9 roving video teams to capture high definition footage of action at headquarters and out in the field, artfully telling the WRTC2014 story using the participants’ own words. View the video at: https://vimeo.com/119947598 Funding for video production was provided by a generous grant from the Northern California DX Foundation (NCDXF).

Antenna Resistance a very good dicussion by W8JI

http://www.w8ji.com/radiation_resistance.htm

More from N4JTE This time Two pairs of phased Verticals, no it is not a true Four Square

Scroll down to where he says "Poor Man's Four Square" More from N4JTE This time a pair of 40m Phased verticals Not a Four Square but Two pair of separate Phased verticals

Phasing Short HF Vertical Antennas - The Clark County Amateur Radio Association, Springfield, OH

Phasing Short HF Vertical Antennas - The Clark County Amateur Radio Association, Springfield, OH

N4JTE Vertical Array - Phased Verticals on 40 Meters!

N4JTE Vertical Array - Phased Verticals on 40 Meters!

VA7ST.ca » Blog Archive » Phased 40M Wire Verticals

VA7ST.ca » Blog Archive » Phased 40M Wire Verticals

VA7ST Christman phasing calculator

VA7ST Christman phasing calculator

W8WWV gives us S-Meter Lite

http://nk7z.net/review-of-s-meter-lite/

DX-World.net Featured DXPeditions timeline

DX-World.net Featured DXPeditions timeline

AB0X and the KCDX Club offer a great pdf file on Receive antennas

AB0X Low Band Receive antennas for small lots.... Click Here Cheers! steve KG5VK

NK7Z very useful Blog

KF5EYY Tech site

http://kf5eyy.info/technical.htm

Optimize Windows for DXlabs Spot Collector

http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/OptimizeWindowsForSpotCollector

YCCC Articles Index Link

http://yccc.org/Articles/index.htm

An On Line Simple Air Coil Calculator mentioned in the Feb 2016 QSR Article by Ward Silver

Simple Air Coil Calculator
http://www.k7mem.com/Electronic_Notebook/inductors/coildsgn.html

The Impedance Matching designer link is here
http://home.sandiego.edu/~ekim/e194rfs01/jwmatcher/matcher2.html

Thanks to Ward for another great effective article

Cheers!
Steve
KG5VK

YCCC 9 element Low band Vertical RCV Array

Here is a very short Video of the performance of this array....

Note I have only finished 3 of the 9 elements
They are in a line N.E.  / S.W.
The control cable was only two lines for power, none for switching

So the only switching in this first use

is The Array (RX ANT) Versus the Transmit antenna (which is a long legged Vee Beam)
I will be posting more Videos of this very impressive antenna soon.

Cheers!

Steve

KG5VK

Vee Beam a simple wire antenna with very long legs

Vee Beam fed with Ladder line
Forground 3 el 17m beam being assembled

at

Area 57

Nearly end of the day at "Area 57"

Nearly End of The daylight Hours

at

"Area 57"

Finished up the roughed in plumbing and started hooking up a few appliances like a whirlpool tub
HVAC system will get installed in a couple of weeks

Tomorrow I spend a little more time perfecting the three elements of the 9 ele YCC low band receive array, while we have another day of sunshine here.

Mean while I just worked a new one on 80m cw
ES3AX  August in Estonia

Cheers!

Steve

KG5VK

40m Yagi Antennas CQ Contest

40m Yagi Antennas CQ Contest by Jay WX0B  make sure we notice the difference in TOA when the two antennas are 180 deg out of phase, prob an awesome tool for ARRL SS de steve KG5VK

AutoEZ: Transmission Lines - Tuners - Stacks - Stubs

AutoEZ: Transmission Lines - Tuners - Stacks - Stubs



Wow !!!  This is an awesome tool set !

I am far from a EZNEC Guru

but AutoEZ makes using the software so much easier AND Brings much more to the table
Like telling me where my stub should be placed in the line for harmonic suppression !
Very versatile tool !



Many thanks to Dan for developing this app !



Cheers!

Steve

KG5VK