Just found your channel. Just got my UK foundation radio amateur licence, and was looking at homemade inexpensive antennas. Really impressed with the the multi tap option, makes sense and seems reasonably simple to make.
Hi there! If you're looking for simple, and either cheap or free antennas, you've found some. lol. I'm retired and have the time to screw around, and am having a blast doing so with antenna fun.. both silly and useful on a daily basis. Winding a multiple tap unun is no harder than winding any other, and in fact, simpler in my opinion. Take care David and thanks for watching :)
Happy 4th of July Chuck. Many places here on lock down so not much movement about. Well, until one drives on the outskirts of the college. The young people that have full time restaurant and bar jobs are around and I notice on earlier drive in town they were setting up their Corn Hole games, water-body-slide-bowling, and kiddie soaking pools in the front yards of their multi-student rental homes. I had a learning moment today. Reminds me of learning how to do the dolphin kick for the butterfly. All through high school and part of military swim team I couldn't coordinate the kick with the stroke and used the frog kick alot to compensate. The one day with help from my Jamaican life guard it came to me. Today it was with capacitors and inductors. Nice video BTW. 72 de KB8AMZ
Thank you, Terry. Yeah, around here it's the same; college kids who would NEVER go into a store without a mask, but who congregate by the hundreds at bars, parties, social events, etc. It's odd. I know this to be true because my neice is a new medical student in Lansing, MI., at MSU. Those guys are carrying on like never before.. and yet living with a strange dichotomy, at least in my mind. My neice was at that bar in Lansing were 85 people were infected. She nor her friends were strangely. Regarding that swim stroke, it's impossible for mere normal humans to do! I tried and tried when younger and gave up. Funny how something can 'click' in us.. our brain working in conjunction with autonomic muscle response.. and suddenly we 'get it' and from that point on, it's as natural as breathing. We are amazing creatures :)
An other good video Chuck, thanks a lot ! 73, chris ha7wx PS : Would it have even less effect on SWR if you made few turns (4 to 8 let's say) of coax around a 240-43 toroid on the feedline from the rig to the unun ? Oh and no sea-sick effect and take care for yourself ;)
Oh crap. Now you've done it. Thanks a lot! I hope your're happy. Ya see... now I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO TRY. And I have no more 240 size cores! I gave my only one away! Looks like it's time to visit Amidon Associates and order some. I hear that guitardzan is winding a double FT240 core. I hear he might want to stress test it! OK, I didn't hear that.. I susperct it. Whatever. Same thing. lol. When it's done I'm going into hiding in an abandoned copper mine in Michigan's upper peninsula! Where ya at guitardzan? Thanks for putting up with me Christophe. Take good care! :)
@@n8nkqrp595 Hi Chuck, no i did not hear of guitardzan, who's that? He's the relative of tarzan? :) nope, i don't have to put up more with you Chuck than you have with me, you see ? I was just wondering about the ferrite thing as I am having my little fun just putting a 5-foot stick antenna on a heating radiator here in the flat (7th floor) and making dozens of contacts on 10 and 11 at 25W on a 10m radio. LOL folks don't believe me, but I have a huge grounding system with all the plumbing. To avoid any radiating of the coax line (hence RFI and SWR variation issues too), I have 8 turns of RG58 around that big core. Take care and enjoy radio Chuck, looking forward to hearing from you! Christophe ha7wx / kp733
Haha, nope! I wonder if that's his channel name. I'll look and see. I do watch all of the stunning resurrection work done by shango066, mostly TV stuff, and I realized that at times I sound a lot like him. Which is odd given that I've been told I have the 'midwest stink about me', and shango is in Los Angeles. You should check out his stuff. And he does a great 'EOL' every 4th of July and New Years eve. 73
Just found your channel. Just got my UK foundation radio amateur licence, and was looking at homemade inexpensive antennas. Really impressed with the the multi tap option, makes sense and seems reasonably simple to make.
Hi there! If you're looking for simple, and either cheap or free antennas, you've found some. lol. I'm retired and have the time to screw around, and am having a blast doing so with antenna fun.. both silly and useful on a daily basis. Winding a multiple tap unun is no harder than winding any other, and in fact, simpler in my opinion. Take care David and thanks for watching :)
Excellent examples!
Happy 4th of July Chuck. Many places here on lock down so not much movement about. Well, until one drives on the outskirts of the college. The young people that have full time restaurant and bar jobs are around and I notice on earlier drive in town they were setting up their Corn Hole games, water-body-slide-bowling, and kiddie soaking pools in the front yards of their multi-student rental homes. I had a learning moment today. Reminds me of learning how to do the dolphin kick for the butterfly. All through high school and part of military swim team I couldn't coordinate the kick with the stroke and used the frog kick alot to compensate. The one day with help from my Jamaican life guard it came to me. Today it was with capacitors and inductors. Nice video BTW. 72 de KB8AMZ
Thank you, Terry. Yeah, around here it's the same; college kids who would NEVER go into a store without a mask, but who congregate by the hundreds at bars, parties, social events, etc. It's odd. I know this to be true because my neice is a new medical student in Lansing, MI., at MSU. Those guys are carrying on like never before.. and yet living with a strange dichotomy, at least in my mind. My neice was at that bar in Lansing were 85 people were infected. She nor her friends were strangely. Regarding that swim stroke, it's impossible for mere normal humans to do! I tried and tried when younger and gave up. Funny how something can 'click' in us.. our brain working in conjunction with autonomic muscle response.. and suddenly we 'get it' and from that point on, it's as natural as breathing. We are amazing creatures :)
An other good video Chuck, thanks a lot ! 73, chris ha7wx
PS : Would it have even less effect on SWR if you made few turns (4 to 8 let's say) of coax around a 240-43 toroid on the feedline from the rig to the unun ?
Oh and no sea-sick effect and take care for yourself ;)
Oh crap. Now you've done it. Thanks a lot! I hope your're happy. Ya see... now I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO TRY. And I have no more 240 size cores! I gave my only one away! Looks like it's time to visit Amidon Associates and order some. I hear that guitardzan is winding a double FT240 core. I hear he might want to stress test it! OK, I didn't hear that.. I susperct it. Whatever. Same thing. lol. When it's done I'm going into hiding in an abandoned copper mine in Michigan's upper peninsula! Where ya at guitardzan? Thanks for putting up with me Christophe. Take good care! :)
@@n8nkqrp595 Hi Chuck, no i did not hear of guitardzan, who's that? He's the relative of tarzan? :) nope, i don't have to put up more with you Chuck than you have with me, you see ? I was just wondering about the ferrite thing as I am having my little fun just putting a 5-foot stick antenna on a heating radiator here in the flat (7th floor) and making dozens of contacts on 10 and 11 at 25W on a 10m radio. LOL folks don't believe me, but I have a huge grounding system with all the plumbing. To avoid any radiating of the coax line (hence RFI and SWR variation issues too), I have 8 turns of RG58 around that big core.
Take care and enjoy radio Chuck, looking forward to hearing from you! Christophe ha7wx / kp733
FUNUN with ground! Ground is so beneath me. Bada bing.
Are you vintage audio addict you sound just like him if you're not to me
Haha, nope! I wonder if that's his channel name. I'll look and see. I do watch all of the stunning resurrection work done by shango066, mostly TV stuff, and I realized that at times I sound a lot like him. Which is odd given that I've been told I have the 'midwest stink about me', and shango is in Los Angeles. You should check out his stuff. And he does a great 'EOL' every 4th of July and New Years eve. 73
Yep his TH-cam channel is vintage audio attic restores old stereos and whatnot thanks for hollering back
Make that addict