[HFbeacons] Whidbey Island Report evening greyline
- From: Erik M <ac7av@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hfbeacons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:24:07 -0800 (PST)
Whidbey Island Report
From CN88QF, IOTA NA065 from 01:06utc-01:35utc.
Thank you everyone that spotted my new beacon.
VA3XCD Bill, yes
your beacon was making it to Whidbey today and very strong I mite ad. It was
around S5.
W5ZA Steve, the beacon is the HTX-100 running at 5 watts
into the dipole made with mobile whip antennas on the horizontal, a 102" SS
whip on the hot
side and the other is a 3/4~ 7.5 foot long firestick on the shield side. The
antenna mount consists of two mirror mounts
mounted at 90 deg from each other but the whips being very flexible it fans out
nicely but this I understand will also help the feed point resistance be closer
to 50ohm. The match is 1-1.1 on this
setup. The antenna is 15 feet off the
ground and in a heavily wooded area so the antenna needed to be able to take a
branch hit and survive and I think this will do the job well. I have 600 feet
of feed line going out to
the antenna 500 feet of it is Shireen RFC400.
However I didn't have enough and had to add a 100 foot piece of RG58 to
it. All together it has about 6.249db
loss in the cable. That puts it at
about 2.5 watts at the antenna according to the watt meter. The surrounding
terrain never goes above my
elevation of 202 feet above sea level and falls off in all directions but this
is as flat as it get around the island.
I am less then .5 miles from the water from the north west, around to the
east. Reception is very good at my new
location. This setup also allows me to operate 10 with out interfering with my
own equipment. In fact I don't have to
stop it from transmitting until I get below 28.205 to hear any other beacons
from there down to 28.195. That's way
better then I was even hoping for.
I hope that answered all the particulars for you.
From the top down.
28.3000 k6frc
2985 k7fl
297 ns9rc
2883 w4yj
2835 kc9gnk
2811 w8eh
2800 k5ab
2785 wa4otd
2758 k4ukb
2723 n1kon
2628 pt9bcn
2545 k4jee
2494 k7ek
2380 kb2seo
2376 k7zsa
2140 n4pal
2123 kj4qyb
2100 pt2ssb/b gh64ci
I don't see this one on the list?
1930 lu2erc
73 Erik AC7AV
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