17-07-2017, 09:25 AM
"Anyway, just wondering if many heard vk4wss on the during the TT ??"
I heard VK4WSS on 160M at one stage working a VK2? but did not hear the call again on either 80 or 40 during my nearly 6 hours of operation.
"Went to the SARS weekend down at Bigriggen yesterday arvo to set up my newly built 160-80-40 trapped v dipole, but alas it went out of tune with wires resting up against trees and the like, as well as the last leg coming undone..... dunno how that one happened."
You should have known better than to run it close to trees. You saw how it de-tuned when it was next to the support pipe here when tested, and that was only at the centre. The original article advised that it would vary frequency with height etc but I guess I should have warned about proximity to any other object.
Are you saying it was on its last "legs" that made it fall to the ground
73 Doug
I heard VK4WSS on 160M at one stage working a VK2? but did not hear the call again on either 80 or 40 during my nearly 6 hours of operation.
"Went to the SARS weekend down at Bigriggen yesterday arvo to set up my newly built 160-80-40 trapped v dipole, but alas it went out of tune with wires resting up against trees and the like, as well as the last leg coming undone..... dunno how that one happened."
You should have known better than to run it close to trees. You saw how it de-tuned when it was next to the support pipe here when tested, and that was only at the centre. The original article advised that it would vary frequency with height etc but I guess I should have warned about proximity to any other object.
Are you saying it was on its last "legs" that made it fall to the ground
73 Doug
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