KH6JRM;s Amateur Radio Blog
'Just about time to wrap up the news cycle for today in the KKBG-FM/KHLO-AM newsroom. Then, it's home to the shack for some casual operting before calling it a day. I'm still working on the under the house NVIS loop. The wire has sagged a bit since I attached it to the undercarriage of the qth. With 142' of 18-gauge wire, the antenna can work any- thing from 40 to 10 meters. Admitedly, the arrange- ment works best on 40 meters (mostly local contacts out to about 300 miles). But, with the 450-ohm feed line, I can get some service on the higher bands. The backyard vertical is still a work in progress. It works alright, but a few more counterpoise wires will help deliver a better signal. Like the NVIS loop, the 33' foot vertical is fed with homebrew twin lead and seems to keep the Drake MN-4 ATU and the old Swan 100- MX happy. Currently, I'm using a single tuned counter- poise wire. I've garnered many contacts with this im- provised s