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Lighting Protection 1. No lighting protection is required on any antenna feed line when you are using a grounded grid amplifier. Antenna Feed Line Care and Maintenance 1. All ways bury your feed lines, open wire, coax, etc. Doing so will prevent lighting damage and reduce receiver roofing noise. 2. To increase your open wire line efficiency, add several twists between insulators (5 foot spacing between insulators). Counter Clockwise Northern Hemisphere, and Clockwise Southern Hemisphere. Receiver Improvements 1. When soldering any antenna connections, use the minimal amount of solder possible, because, the lead/tin combination causes the "RF" that gets mixed in proportion to the solder mix. Reducing the amount also helps reduce environmental pollutants and prevents global warming. The bottom line is, this method will insure the antenna connections will fail at regular intervals. 2. To improve your receiving conditions, turn on you linear amplifier. 3. Grounding both leads of the antenna will reduce line noise, qrn, and improve signal to sky ratio. Transmitting Improvements 1. When ever you want to bend your signal around a corner, use a right angle connector. Should you want to create a circular pattern, just use four (4) right angle connectors in the coax line. Doing so will give you a 360 degree twist in the rf signal creating a circular pattern. 2. Changing the antenna impedance is as easy as changing the feed line to the antenna. Should you want 75 ohm impedance - just use 75 ohm Coax, 50 ohm - just use 50 Coax, 300 ohm - just use 300 ohm Twin Leed, 450 ohm - just use 450 ohm ladder line, or, 600 ohm - just use 600 ohm open wire line. 3. Installing a roll cage around your Linear Amplifier will prevent damage to your amplifier in the event of high SWR and/or Low Ground Voltage. 4. Always construct the final amplifier tube(s) in you linear amplifier in the upright position. This will prevent the rf from spilling out. 5. Doubling is the art of multitasking on the same frequency at the same time. Doubling also helps improve band conditions by increasing bandwidth. 6. Transmitting with a poor antenna, it is always best to make long transmissions to insure that the other partys really can't hear you. What is it that you don't understand about? "WE DON'T HEAR YOU" 7. Antenna improvements and all other advice can be found nightly on 75 meters (x.xxx MHz) from the local experts. One needs to consider the BSBF factor, (Bull Smith Beer Factor). 8. Always use someones call letters other than your own. Make sure they are not licensed for the segment you want to operate in. Especially, when in the extra segments. It is always best to do this late at night and, or after you have had alcoholic beverages. This promotes amateur radio, good fellowship, and saves the embarrassment of sobering up before using your own call letters. (Good Operating Procedures) 9. Always transmit with you processor wide open, doing so will insure that everybody will hear your signal. 10. Making a Double Bazooka Dipole Antenna, construct it with the heaviest coax possible. Doing so will increase the Weight to Gravity Ratio. 11. When in a group conversation, always interrupt with your comments on top of the conversation. Make sure you approve of all comments. This reduces the bandwidth used and impress's the group with your knowledge. Never never listen before transmitting because, this would not impress the group. 12. Using coax to the antenna with the equipment on a wood table that is on a wet concrete floor, is a great way to experience a shocking experience. 13. Antenna length is calculated by the distance between stations times 2 or L = D*2. 14. PEP Power Explaination Click on This Link for Info! Contesting 1. The Early Bird Contester gets the first contact report, even if you are a day early. 2. Contesters Rules, Regulations are different from the rest of the rules, regulations during contests. A contesters should always get as close as possible (in the pass band) to an existing QSO. Failing to so will affect your contest score. 3. Contesters should always adjust their audio gain and processing levels as high as possible, insuring those loud near by signals stations will hear you when you call CQ Contest...(Maybe you could get even closer to the QSO gaining more POINTS) 
Global Warming 1. Global warming is the blame for rapid fading, QRM, and high SWR. 2. The more Solar Collectors used on Earth the less Sun Spots on the Sun. 2. Solar Winds have a great effect on the way you adjust your antenna tuner. It could be the reason your SWR is high after changing Bands. To avoid this problem stay on one frequency and rotate you turner to line up the corners of the tuner to East, West, North and South. This should be done after mid-night. Have interesting facts that you would like posted that can help improve signal strength ect., send them to the attention of the webmaster(at)possumnet.com Just remember that NET stands for, (Not Entirely True) Back to Home Page |