Dear all, as I tried to tune my 500 kHz antenna last right I noticed that it was detuned by about 1.5 kHz (from 503 tot 501.5) and that the antenna current was down to 1.8 A (from 2.1 A). A first vis
Hi Rik, playing with your figures for current and resistance, one finds that the poor little twig would have dissipated 91 watts. Makes me worry whether it could have started a bushfire... During a f
Hello Marcus, the cracked branch "connected" my antenna to a repectable birch tree, so I not quite sure wether the 91 Watt was entirely dissipated by the leave. And I think that I wouldn't be the fir
Dear Rik, when I had been the wireless operator of DCUW in 1957 the sailors once had set up a sunsail in a way that it touched the downlead of the ship's T-aerial. It had not been possible to tune th
My inverted-L has been faulty for several weeks now. It started with one of the top wires coming away from its perspex insulator. Because of the way the three wires are connected, this was not a disa
