NFARL September, 2009 Meeting

HF Antennas for HF Beginners

by Jim, K4DLI and Dave, W7FB A presentation at the September 2009 NFARL Meeting. The presenters graciously made their presentation materials available for download. Click the links below to download the materials. Presentation slides (1.6mb PDF file) Power Transfer and Conjugate Match notes (PDF file) Power Transfer Worksheet (Excel spreadsheet) […]

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The 40M Extended Double Zepp

By Jim Streible, K4DLI  SK There were many new and somewhat unfamiliar antennas used at this year’s NFARL Field Day. One of these was the one for the CW station. This antenna is basically two 5/8 wave antennas end to end. It can be fed with ladder line from the […]

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The Half-Square versus the Loop Skywire

by Jim Stafford, W4QO Appeared in QRP Quarterly, Fall, 2006 Up until about 8 years ago, I had an 80 foot tower with a TH-6DXX on it.  It was quite fun working QRP with it on 20 thru 10 meters.  Reports of “WOW, you can’t be QRP!” or “are you […]

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