Paul Wende writes:
Just wanted to drop you a note to say what a great site you have. I first
became aware of you last year with your NVIS article on the San Jose site.
I am an amateur as well as an electronics tech, 'radio of all types'
enthusiast and many other electronics interests. My search for broadband
antennas began last year when I was helping my friend establish a more
reliable link with our local telco to his remote cabin north of Vancouver
(BC). There is no power or telco service there.
His power relies on solar power and batteries. BC TEL has a commercial HF SSB
service linking our remote communities to the regular telephone service and he
has never had a good solid service with his setup. They have fixed freqs from
2MHz thru 12 MHz, which will cover all requirements for our rather large
province.
He has 5 of them, 2 thru 7 I believe, so he really has the basics for a good
link and just needs a good antenna(s). He uses a Spilsbury commercial radio,
xtal controlled, and it works very well for this type of service.
I thought I would help him as I had just discovered NVIS (thanks to you) and
realized that he was only 170 KM from the RX/TX antennas of BC TEL and that his
dipole antenna was all wrong.
Anyway, without going into too much detail, once the snow disappears, I will be
going north to help him with this. I (and he) were always trying to get the
antenna as high as possible. The old 'higher is better' thinking, of
course is all wrong for his application. Well, when you think about it, NVIS
is great for his requirements and is extremely useful in many circumstances.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the info on your site and I will check in
regularly. I also am going to try to get him setup for mobile operation as
well....but that's another story. :-)
73
Paul Wende <pwende@aimtronics.com>
VE7KHz
"Hi Trish,
Yes. I will join the list. I'm attaching a picture of the radio I am
planning to use for his mobile setup. It is made by Spilsbury (now RACAL) and is
150W PEP and will TX voice (USB/LSB), CW and Data. Dual cooling fans on a rather
large heatsink on the back. 2- 22 MHz.
I'll keep you posted on our progress and will take you up on your kind offer
if we need any assistance.
Cheers!
Paul
