My House View With Antennas

My House View With Antennas

Tuesday 12 October 2010

9K2GS operating W3JK remote

This is a short video of 9K2GS operating W3JK remotely as W2/9K2GS. (This is legal as 9K has reciprocal arrangement with USA, please see http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regu... )The transceiver used is a Yaesu-FT2000, the amplifier is a Yaesu Quadra and the antenna is a Optibeam OB17-4. The remote station was controlled using PCC-2000 software and Skype was used for Audio.




Monday 11 October 2010

ON8JL hot-spot

ON8JL D-star Hot-spot work without computer




2m D-Star simplex calling channel on IC-2200H

2m D-Star calling channel (144.6125MHz) on Sunday 10/10/10 from Gillingham in Kent.

Not much happening, even though there's a bit of a lift on 2m.



Saturday 9 October 2010

DELTA-LOOP

20 M DELTA LOOP AT NN6AA QTH AND FLEX 1500 RADIO PLUS TOKYO HY PWR AMP...




Flex 1500 filter little test

FLEX 1500 QRP working over 600 watt , good for work any dx

Comet CHA250 Broadband Vertical

Following my discovery that eHam have pulled my review of the CHA250 (done a couple of years ago and was on the site for a long while) I thought I would make a graphic demonstration of how this antenna compares with an alternative 'restricted space' antenna, the Cobwebb. This video seeks only to present the truth, as seen by the front end of a receiver; the one with the most accurate S-meter available in the amateur radio world...

The Cobwebb is mounted 2 metres higher than the mean height of the CHA250, which in terms of HF is not significant. The CHA250's feeder has 0.3dB less loss than the Cobwebb @ 21 MHz.

The test receiver is a Flex-5000 SDR which has a calibrated S-meter, not AGC derived and is highly accurate, making it the ideal choice for this test. Combined with the identical second receiver, true A/B comparisons are easily accomplished in real time.

A/B tests don't exist for the CHA250 in its previous mounting location however I firmly believe that it performed considerably better at 2.5m AGL than it does at 7m (feedpoint).