[Antennas] Questions!

Sun, 4 May 2003 18:24:18 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Tom,
"12 is going to die" means the 12 meter band's
propagation will be poor during the 11-year sunspot
cycle decline. In a year or two, propagation above
21MHz will be pretty crappy.
Now, if he'd said "12 ARE going to die" I would have
been more worried!
Wanting to be #13,
Steve N4SL
--- Tom Crawford <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am sure this is a dumb question: I am not only new
> to this mail list but a
> relatively new ham:
> What does "12 is going to die" mean?
> Is this a propagation issue or a legal issue?
>> thanks,
> Tom
>> P.S.
> Osten - I am new to Ham radio but just from an
> Electrical Eng point of view,
> IMHO this idea sounds like a nonstarter (for many of
> the points you bring
> up). Why don't ya learn to like tuners - a matched
> system is a happy system
> ;)
> best of luck 73
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Osten B Magnusson" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 5:28 PM
> Subject: [Antennas] Questions!
>>>>> Friends!
>> I was on this list some years ago and now I'm back
> again!
> A question or two:
>> I'm living on an urban lot less than 1000 square
> meters, and
> no space for more than one tower. I have been using
> an
> inverted vee for a couple of years on 80 meter CW,
> more
> than 230 DXCC-''entities'' worked, and now I'm going
> to use
> it also on 17, 30, 80 CW - 3500 - 3225, 80 SSB 3575
> - 3580
> and 160 meters. My idea is to have relays in each
> leg adding
> lengths when going from higher to lower frequencies.
> In this
> case it means 4 relays in each leg, totally 8
> relays.
>> As there is high voltage in the ends of the legs
> what kind of
> light-weight relays can I use, not too expensive and
> easy to
> get?
>> How will the 12 or 24 Volt DC lines to the relays
> affect the
> antenna?
>> I think you may say it's simpler to use an antenna
> tuner but
> NO, I don't like them...
>> Would like to get your answers to the questions and
> also
> of course your opinion to the whole idea, thanks in
> advance.
>> By the way, I'm a DX'er but everything worked on 40,
> 20 and
> 10 meters, 12 is going to die, so no need for those
> bands.
> I would like to put up a monoband beam for 30 meters
> but the
> problem is to have that at 70 feet as I need a
> support higher
> than that to get the beam rotatable inside the
> inverted vee,
> probably impossible!
>> Hope to hear from you, all the best and 73 de
>> Osten SM5DQC [email protected]
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