Good morning!!!!

[scott_vt]

Good Tractor Morning Steve,

BUT I do also have 2 of the LDG 600pro tuners and they are great as well

So I’m curious Steve. They claim that tuner will be able to tune multiple bands on my 80m dipole flattop up about 60 ft. Does this sound doable to you ? That 80m dipole runs basically north and south direction wise. So I get out quite well to my east into Europe and west. Just curious if you have any experience with that. I am also blessed to be on a hill with an elevation of about 560 ft above sea level. Thanks for your thoughts

 

[wngsprd]

35 going to 62. Rain late.

Yep, Scotty, Della took me to the mountains, as a back seat driver. Cool that you heading back to the Caribbean soon...or should I say, hot?

30 outside right now, may hit 60 today. No precipitation. Yesterday was a super nice day for this time of year. Basically sat outside all day and chatted with friends.

It is nice that a warm spell will bring so many folks outside.

Wednesday, we took down all of our Christmas decorations and packed them away. My wife was so happy that we got it done in one day...at least 95% done. Both inside and out...but we were bushed by the end of the day. Once we take off the tree ornaments and lights, I lop the branches off the tree and pass them out the window onto the tarp I placed. This avoids dropping needles through the house. Then off to one of my wildlife brush piles.

When we finished, there was an hour of daylight, and the temps were in the 60s, so I decided to wash my wife's terribly dirty Highlander. Sunset caught me cleaning up.

 

[wngsprd]

I still have 133 miles to go to complete the SNP 500 (actually 514 miles). I've hiked many of those 133 miles, but not able to count them, by the "rules." Plus some of them are on unmaintained trails that need to be hiked in winter...so am going after them now.

Here are my 2 favorite pix from yesterday...one lone icicle trying to hang on in the 50 degree heat wave, and Della grabbing a drink.

Plus one that shows where we hiked, from a distance.

 

[ArlyA]

I still have 133 miles to go to complete the SNP 500 (actually 514 miles). I've hiked many of those 133 miles, but not able to count them, by the "rules." Plus some of them are on unmaintained trails that need to be hiked in winter...so am going after them now.

Here are my 2 favorite pix from yesterday...one lone icicle trying to hang on in the 50 degree heat wave, and Della grabbing a drink.

Plus one that shows where we hiked, from a distance.View attachment 4744230View attachment 4744231View attachment 4744232

Like you, we are hikers.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
going to be warmer today, but cloudy with rain coming in.
flooring guy coming this morning to measure house for replacement vinyl flooring.
then this afternoon my friend with his new dumpster business is coming with a half full dumpster from
another job and will take the broken hot tub and that rv sofa out of my basement and haul them away.
A big to do finally scratched off the list.

Now I can organize basement a little better though it's not very pleasant down there, despite my having it freshly painted.
reminds me I need to run the oxygen generator, helps to eliminate that moldy smell, despite humidifiers running constantly.
It also seems to drive the spiders out. I guess they don't like a big dose of oxidizer to breath.

 

[Buppies]

39 high in low 60s rain coming I hope was 2inches now lucky if 1/2 in

Help not showing up on time leaving early hard for me to do my job even get to PO. Woke up an hour ago too early went to bed after game. Ole Miss.played a good game

Nose is running hope of getting sick

Prayers for all our Country

 

[riptides]

38 outside this AM, heading to upper 50's, rain expected later today.

Busier day than usual yesterday. Real job stupid stuff ruled the day with interrupts. Managed to get the grocery run in. Ended up on the roof getting the Christmas lights down. Don't know what was up with the balance issue though. Every time I looked up at the hook holding the lights I felt dizzy. Snagged them down on the third attempt. I have a pole saw modified to hook and unhook them. Saves another twenty feet of stress.

Not my dog got the last of the stiches out of her paw. Unfortunate she still sports the cone of shame. Her whole personality changes with that thing, she just sulks around. I'll need to look into paw boots before we go on any more hikes. It was a costly accident.

The wife and I ended the day with our own property hike. A good three miles looking for the game cams. LOL. I missed one, took the wrong trail. That will be the agenda item today before the rain.

Hope all have a great day today. TGIF, be safe.

 

[B7510HSD]

Good Tractor Morning Steve,

So I’m curious Steve. They claim that tuner will be able to tune multiple bands on my 80m dipole flattop up about 60 ft. Does this sound doable to you ? That 80m dipole runs basically north and south direction wise. So I get out quite well to my east into Europe and west. Just curious if you have any experience with that. I am also blessed to be on a hill with an elevation of about 560 ft above sea level. Thanks for your thoughts

Scott yes it should no problem! You radio internal tuner will tune about a 3:1 SWR range and the external tuner will tune about a 10:1 SWR range so you will turn the internall tuner off and just use the external tuner. I use all external tuners. My Delta Loop antenna will tune any frequency I throw at it. My new antenna just landed yesterday a Cushcraft R9 vertical. Going to give it a try! I'm not a vertical fan but the price was to good to not try it.

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN!!
48 this morning. Should be about 68 this afternoon under cloudy sky. Rain moving in for tomorrow all day.

Got the compressor all mounted and ready for the belt. Got the motor pulley in and checked to make sure it will fit. Came late so I will get it mounted correctly and check for belt size first thing this morning and head to Lowes to pick one up. Long belt. Over 5' so I'll need to get a mower belt. Hopefully a test run this afternoon before I get it back to it's shelter.
That's my agenda for the day.

Time for a second cup
Everyone have a great and safe day!!

 

[ronjhall]

Now I can organize basement a little better though it's not very pleasant down there, despite my having it freshly painted.
reminds me I need to run the oxygen generator, helps to eliminate that moldy smell, despite humidifiers running constantly.
It also seems to drive the spiders out. I guess they don't like a big dose of oxidizer to breath.

Hope you ment Dehumidifier in basement. To me, humidifier would help make mold.

 

[WinterDeere]

Scott yes it should no problem! You radio internal tuner will tune about a 3:1 SWR range and the external tuner will tune about a 10:1 SWR range so you will turn the internall tuner off and just use the external tuner. I use all external tuners. My Delta Loop antenna will tune any frequency I throw at it. My new antenna just landed yesterday a Cushcraft R9 vertical. Going to give it a try! I'm not a vertical fan but the price was to good to not try it.

I design SWR tuners for a living, in fact I own a business that builds them for very large industrial applications, 100 kW stuff at 0.3 meters or 10’s of kilowatts up to millimeter frequencies. But I know absolutely nothing about what a ham hobbyist would use for a home setup. Are these automatic tuners, or manually adjusted? If automatic, it seems the time constants of the control loops of two tuners might fight against one another, causing tuning oscillations.

Also, are your antennas really ever actually worse than 3:1? I’m assuming a manufacturer would never ship one that far out of tune, so this must be due to reflections from adjacent structures, etc?

We are usually aiming for 1.22:1 or better on broadband tunes, or better than 1.06:1 on narrowband tunes. Reflected power becomes a major thermal challenge for your transmitter, when pushing 10’s of kilowatts, and the efficiency penalty of higher VSWRs can be a problem for power supply in many applications.

 

[daugen]

Hope you ment Dehumidifier in basement. To me, humidifier would help make mold.

yes, sure did, thanks
keeps it around 50%
mold is bad news
have to be careful using the ozone generator, lots of materials not happy with
it. But nothing nice in basement now, everything boxed.
I need to tuck in the protective tents over some racks of old stored clothes, suits, stuff
I am way overdue giving away.
maybe soon.

I sure don't need all those suits.
problem is, who does anymore?
unless you have an office in the big city, don't think suits are going thing anymore.
my suit is now a double kneed pair of blue jeans perfect for gardening.