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"Tam" == t-tammaru Tam writes:

Tam Jack, Just some comments. I think you have the right kind of
Tam antenna with the fan dipoles. You say it is lower than the house;
Tam can't you prop up at least some of it to the height of the house,
Tam or a couple of feet more.

Nope, I meant what I said when I said I can't get the wire any higher
than it is right now at this current location.

Tam Have you determined that the radio puts out the same power on SSB
Tam (whistle) as when you tune up (on CW?) ?

No, but I'm not really concerned about SSB versus CW -- I'll operate
CW if that's what it takes, and it'll be incentive to finally learn.

Tam I made most of my early contacts during contests, by answereing
Tam calls from people who did not have big pileups. If they hear you,
Tam they will come back to you. I did get my SSB DXCC with a Junior
Tam beam at 28 feet.

My situation is that I can't make a scheduled contact with someone
twenty miles from my house while we're on the phone. "Can you hear me
on this frequency? Let me key up and you tell me if you can hear me."
That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Worrying about how to get
lots of contacts is way way in the future -- I'm fixed on worrying
about whether my equipment is even working.

Tam To trim a multiple dipole like yours, you have to trim the lowest
Tam frequency first, and work your way up. I have a 40/17/12 antenna
Tam like that, and this is the only way I got it to convege in EZNEC.

That's the plan, once I get the noise bridge. My environment is too
complex for me to attempt to model it with EZNEC.

Jack.
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Jack Twilley
jmt at twilley dot org
http colon slash slash www dot twilley dot org slash tilde jmt slash
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