I was already engaged so I couldn't get on last night. Peter, on the isopoles, have the connections on the skirts been cleaned lately, A little corrosion can change them from making the thing appear broadband, to it just beeing a relatively poorly tuned vertical with no decoupling. gerry On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Laws, Peter C. <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes, it was a good start. > > I have IsoPoles for 2 m and 70 cm FM, then a Cushcraft A148-10S for 2 m > SSB. Thinking of replacing the IsoPoles with that dual-band ground-plane > that was in QST last month. > > -- > Peter Laws / N5UWY > National Weather Center / Network Operations Center > University of Oklahoma Information Technology > [log in to unmask] (Remote) > College of Architecture, Regional and City Planning, MRCP '16 > > ________________________________________ > From: Carey McCachern [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 20:22 > To: OU Amateur Radio Club; Laws, Peter C. > Subject: Re: SWR > > What vertical are you using? I guess we'll have to get the radios worked > out for next week, and we also might need to check the repeater coverage. > I'm glad we got 5 check-ins for this net. It's a good start. > > 73, > > Carey N5RM > > On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:02 PM, "Laws, Peter C." <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Mine is bad. On both my 2-m antennas. > > > > > > -- > > Peter Laws / N5UWY > > National Weather Center / Network Operations Center > > University of Oklahoma Information Technology > > [log in to unmask] (Remote) > > College of Architecture, Regional and City Planning, MRCP '16 > > > -- Gerry Creager NSSL/CIMMS 405.325.6731 ++++++++++++++++++++++ “Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.” Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)