W6GRC TX (147.105 MHz) recordings for 2025-11-24

KF6LBI. KI6SMA. Good afternoon, Phil. You're coming through to the lair here through the repeater Q5. Copy that. Q5 on the receive. Do some sort of a lengthy transmission just to see if it cuts in and out. Your transmission just now worked just fine. Roger that. Yeah, what I found was when I took it down, the main drive element was loose in the bushing. And the connector was maybe a little loose. I had to take it down and tighten everything up and straighten out the reflectors and then put it back in service. And so all this seems to be okay at this point.

Copy that. Had solid copy on your transmission. So I guess you've got hooked up to a yagi somewhere there on the property. No, it's the original antenna that I had set up there at the corner of the solar system, which you have seen several times. Okay. You talked about a reflector. That's why I was. That's where I was coming from, thinking it was a yagi. Because with vertical. How do you have a reflector on the vertical? Well, my terminology may have not been correct, but it is a. It's a J pole, a double J pole. So for UHF and vhf, it's a homebrew. Okay, copy that. That makes sense. I know.

What you're, what you're saying then. Yeah, it's. Yeah. Okay, Good enough. Well, anyhow, that seems to have done the trick, so thank you very much. You're quite welcome. You know, I'm working on putting up the off center fed dipole now for the drt. And I'm going to try and set up a, and finish rebuilding one of my multi band five band verticals for the DRT for the exercise. Oh, fantastic. That's great. Yeah. What are you using for end supports on the dipole? I'm just using some of my military mast sections on each end. One end, but the pipe.

The containers and the other end is out in the field to kind of the northeast. And then the center point will be hoisted up by the mast, that manual mast that's there on one of the communication shelters. Copy that. So it'll be sort of like a dogleg configuration. Say again? It will be like a dog leg configuration as a full, as opposed to straight wire. Yes. Off center fed dipole. So it's fed about a third from one end. Yeah. Let me try to describe better what I was trying to say.

So is it going from point A to point B, or is there a point A, point B, point C? The latter. So the. The B point is two thirds or one third from, depending on how you look at it. From one of the ends. So it's a dipole. Yeah, I understood that part. It was just getting a visual, a visualization in my brain, whether it was just one long wire from point A to point B, or if it had a bend in it, meaning that you would have a B, a B spot in the running of the wire. And ultimately the question is, what kind of a. What's the word? Now? The words are out of my head. What orientation will it have as far.

As stations to transmit, receive, that sort of thing. Well, that's the interesting part. It should go basically north and south, but something should come off the end that's facing east, the longest end. It's a dipole. So it's all the characteristics of a dipole. It's not exactly a straight line. It'll have a. In the middle point will be kicked out into a very shallow V, a horizontal V that is facing the center point will be facing basically south. When you come over here, I'll walk it out. If you have time. Yeah, probably not today, but I've got the mental picture of what you're talking about. And of course, the main concern as far as the orientation.

Would be how? Well, east coast stations would be able to get the signal. That I can't guarantee if they will get it, but we'll figure out something. That's why I'm going trying to get a vertical up and see what we can do with that. See if we can get, get the 5 degree point off the horizon. But yeah, we'll do our best and we'll do some testing before the exercise. Yeah, copy that. And obviously it's also a function of BEP as well as whatever is going on in the atmosphere at any given time. Well, start feeding those electrons, bulk them up, I'll put them on a training point.

Program. Roger that. Okay, this is sounding great for you. It's. You're coming on solid Q5 here at the station through the repeater. So as long as that's not breaking up on your end anymore. I think that problem is fixed and in the bag. Yeah, thanks. Thanks so very much for doing that. I'll use. I'll be planning to use this radio for tonight's Net. And we're still on GRC for. Yeah, we're still in the month of November, so. Okay, 73 from KI6SMN, clear on your final fine business. Phil, you have a blessed afternoon. I'll hear you on the net tonight. And 73, KF6OBI is clear.

Can I trouble either one of you for a quick radio check? If not, af608 clear.