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Live, episode number 94. Oh, I don't even know
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Antenna installations around the world and a
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as well as all of you. So tonight Emmett W0QH,
Chief Engineer at Radio Waves, is here. He's
from the St. Louis, Missouri metro area. He designs
and builds custom antennas for both amateur and
commercial radio. He's been on numerous ham radio
podcasts teaching about antennas and was instrumental
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So Emmett's going to join us here for a second,
but actually Rochelle is with us. So good evening
Rochelle. Well, hello Neil. Well, you can fill
us in while Emmett's running back here. You can
fill us in a little bit on what you guys have
been doing tonight, actually. You've got a bit...
You all are so busy doing all these different
things and you actually had a little on -air
activity going on tonight. Yes, we did. We had
Santa... and the kids of the Incline Village
of where we live come up and talk to Santa in
the MCOM -1 van and as you know that we've been
caretakers of that van so we had we hooked up
one of our antennas and the kids were able to
come in and talk to Santa. It was awesome. I
had mom taking pictures of the kids talking on
the on the radio. It was really cute. Oh, that
sounds great. So yeah, I'm calm one there. That's
the big if you if you don't know what I'm calm
one is it's it's this big van that's decked out
with all kinds of ICOM gear and radio waves antennas
and and it's set up to be kind of a portable
communications facility and it's been making
some of the rounds to some of the bigger ham
conventions and hamfests and places just kind
of showing off what what it can do and so tonight
some kids got to talk to Santa from EMCOM1 so
That's a pretty cool deal. Now Rochelle is the
president of Radio Waves and Emmett's wife, if
you're wondering who Rochelle is. We just kind
of said Rochelle's here, so we'll make sure we
explain all of that. So you guys have had a chance
to travel all over the place putting in antennas
and some of these special event stations, and
I know we're going to talk about the USS batfish
a little bit here later on and You know you're
out out doing the Santa thing tonight so now
the Santa thing were you doing that on the on
the HF net or was that on a Repeater or what
were you doing there? Well, actually I do believe
it was a with one of our local guys who has a
G5 RV, which will be getting a DX80 antenna.
There you go. And in fact, I didn't even get
his call sign. I should have. I was kind of going
back and forth from the clubhouse to the van.
But the RV just sitting out here in the parking
lot and They have one of the HF set up for this
particular, I think we had a repeater. We're
far enough away from St. Charles where we can
hit the repeater, but through the forest fell
repeater. So it worked out really well that the
night could not have been better, Neil. It's
like 50 degrees out. So we had a really, really
good climate. Everything was just went our way.
Well, it's a good thing it was tonight because
that's not gonna last much longer Or even even
expecting some snow out here in the Midwest here
before long well Let's see here. We're gonna
we're gonna try to to keep on track here One
of the things that we were going to talk about
was or some Holiday gift ideas and I know we
we didn't have a chance to To get that in early
enough, you know for people to get stuff ordered
and everything But but maybe there's still some
ideas that we can throw out there in case there's
a birthday anniversary Arbor Day st. Patrick's
Day, you know some excuse, you know You know
how us hams are. Oh, I do. We've always got to
pick up some new gear. So any recommendations
for the gift column? Well, if you have, say for
instance, if your husband or boyfriend or even
someone you know close to you might have a regular
DX antenna, just getting an upgrade balance for
them would be always good, just to a pro line.
But high reliability ferrite makes such a difference
between just a regular DX to a pro line. That's
one of them. We had another call in last week
saying that on her son's Christmas list, she
had a 75 meter double bazooka, but he wrote 80
meter on it. And I'm thinking, okay. You don't
want 80 meter because I don't think he does CW
75 so She got him that and there's been a lot
of people who would call in and say can I you
know, they had you on my lit on the list and
They do these frequencies. What do you suggest?
They they do a lot of that every year. So but
some of the the things that really will rock
your world, obviously, as a hex beam. But the
actual scout, and Emmett will mention this later,
when he had the scout up at the batfish, they
were pulling in 80 meters off of the 40, which
was really cool. I don't know if it was because
he was on a big boat. I didn't know. Hard to
say. But there were a lot of people who were
pleased with the antenna and just played with
it all night long. But the Scout, with the extra
40 meter added onto it, is a really good antenna.
But some of the things that you wouldn't normally
think about so that you can put in your attic
or even along your eaves, the NFED Halfways,
I have a friend who does a lot of fishing. And
he will take an NFID halfway, which is our Pathfinder,
and he takes that faithfully. He goes fishing
twice a week, and he takes it twice, and he just
puts it up out in the trees, and he just has
such a good response with his antenna. He just
can't understand how anyone could not buy one
of these antennas. I said, Craig, this is obviously,
you know, works really well for you. So the the
power finders are really good antenna as well
But especially if you're if you guys are fishing
and playing on the radio at the same time. There
you go Tie both of them together and I know there's
this there's this guy on on on Google Plus in
the ham radio community. That's always posting
fishing pictures always and I think I think he
would be one of the prime candidates for that
that that would work. Now I know Emmett was going
to mention too because we had talked about a
little bit earlier that some of the ham radio
vendors have gift cards and so you know you can
always get a gift card if you don't know exactly
what to get you can you can always go for the
gift card. Yep and even if you want to buy You
can go in as a club. You always get club discounts
if five or more from your club want to buy an
antenna or buy any antenna and then you keep
a percentage off of if five or more buy from
your club. So there's always discounts. There's
always gift cards and we mail those or email
those out as they're given. So yeah, you can
do that too. All right. Yep. Yep. Last minute
shoppers. And as they say on, uh, on the movie,
UHF, if you've been waiting for the last minute,
this is it. This is the last minute. So you gotta
do that. One of my favorite shows, Neil. Good
job. Oh, you're a UHF fan. All right. Very good.
Oh, yes. That's my favorite movie of all time.
Well, I'm going to skip ahead a little bit because
Emmett's still off doing his thing here. He is.
Off doing his thing. Yep, so you kind of answered
one of the questions that came in on Twitter
already from Ian w1jiw And he wanted to know
how to tune one of those radio waves double bazookas
for 80 meters so you kind of gave it away there,
but you might kind of explain what's going on
with the with the double bazooka and the coax
and and all that Now the there's one cut longer
than the other 75 is going to be shorter And
so you're going to have a hard time. You're going
to have a hard time trying to bring in 80 meters,
but You either have to have you know cut one
way or another I mean, that's what we have two
different types. So If you do have a 75 meter
there there might be something that you can do
to bring in the 80 meter But I don't know what
that would be yeah now Emmett was telling me
earlier that it's just pretty much got to be
cut that way because there's a formula involved
for the length and so you can't just You know
chop a little bit off on the ends and expect
it to work because it's Proportional to some
other stuff and so It just, it doesn't work.
So if that's the problem, if you're trying to
tune... that, uh, for 80 versus 75, it might
be the situation like you were just talking about
with the, the, uh, the gift that you were talking
about, you know? Uh, well, which, which is it?
Are you, are you working 80 or are you working
75? And a lot of people call 75 80 and don't
make the distinction between 75 and 80 for CW
and sideband. So that does get into some confusion.
Right now you can if the G if the double bazooka
the one that you own is in good shape We will
trade No problem. The difference is only ten
dollars so if you want to you know, send the
75 back and Get an 80 meter. That's no problem
as long as it collects and everything's in good
working order. We can always clean up an antenna
and fill it as used. We sometimes give those
away as well. But we just want you on the air.
I mean, that's the whole point behind the radio
waves. But also, if you have a double bazooka,
you own one, you buy another one, you get the
third one free. Okay, very good. So there's some
some options for that Ian. I hope that answers
your question and Tell you what we're gonna do.
We're gonna go ahead and take our other break
and we'll be back and hopefully we'll get Emmet
on here to talk a little bit about the batfish
and We're going to talk about a fan dipole. We
got a question about that and a gift for everybody
listening tonight. So we'll be back and talk
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and we're actually gonna have Rochelle take another
question here and Nick W6NIK wants to know the
key to making a fan dipole. And so my response
is that you need somebody that is really into
University of Kentucky basketball. And get one
of us out there and we're a fan. And we can have
the dipole. Like put her arms out both ways.
I don't know if that'll tune up but But what
what about a fan dipole? What what's what's the
secret to that? Primarily You work with a voltage
balance. Oh look I see Oh here he comes We'll
hand it off to him Go ahead, Neil. Ask that question.
All right. We'll ask that again. There he is.
There he is. It's Emmett W0QH. And we were kind
of skipping around on things, waiting on you
here. So we were just talking about the fan dipole
question. So Nick, W6NIK, wants to know the key
to making a fan dipole. And my response was get
one of us University of Kentucky basketball fans.
Mm -hmm, and we can put our arms out to each
side And and that would work but Rochelle acted
like she kind of liked that response, but I'm
not sure so once you give a good response to
that Okay, well a fan dipole is works best when
you start out with It's just a dipole number
one and what you're doing is you're adding multiple
dipoles of similar harmonics, i .e., for instance,
let's say you want an 80 meter, a 40 meter, a
20 meter, and a 10 meter. That's optimum. So
what you can do is you literally cut a dipole
for 80, always cut it long, because you never
know what your environment's really going to
be like. And then you cut the next one for 40.
And then after that, you cut it for 20. And then
after that, you cut it for 10. And if you're
going to set it up as an inverted V, always add
5%, plus a little bit extra. And then what you'll
do is you could go with, spacing does affect
the fan dipole in the sense that if you have
it right next to the other elements that are,
you know, let's say of similar resonance, they'll
affect it a little bit by making everything look
a little bit longer. And what you'll do is you
just start tuning everything. You'll start at,
at 80 meters and then you'll get it close to
resonance, a little bit below where you really
want it to work. And then you go to 40 and do
the same thing. And then you go to 20 and you
go to 10. Now the area is like 15 meters, 12
meters and all that. It's not always a good idea
to throw those bands in there because they create
a little bit of what you'd call parasitic harmonics
in the mix. And it'll work, but it may not give
you optimum Let's just say SWR or matching. In
other words, it won't be a perfect 50 ohms or
75 ohms. Now, one advantage of the fan dipole
is that, think about this, some people, you know,
they'll run like these NEC diagrams and, you
know, simulations and so on. And they'll discover
that it looks just like a dipole. But the reality
is, is you still have electrons flowing through
that 80 meter wire, that 40 meter wire. and the
20 meter wire, let's say, on 20 meters. So what
you actually have now is you have one element
that is two wavelengths long. You have another
element that is one wavelength long. But then
you have another element that is the half wavelength.
And they all have a certain effect. And it gives
you a little bit more gain and a lot more sensitivity
as well, which is kind of neat. When the whole
antenna works together, it's quite a nice combination.
Did that help? I think that does it. I think
that that's a pretty good explanation. So, so
thanks for that. Well, we talked a little bit
about what you've been doing tonight. And when
we talked a little bit about the gift ideas and,
and the double Zuka question while you were gone.
So let's, let's talk about the batfish a little
bit. And I saw a lot of activity on QRZ the last
couple of days. You get a chance to go all over
the place and put up antennas in, literally everywhere.
But we were talking a little bit about this special
event station that took place on the USS Batfish.
So tell us a little bit about that. Well, the
USS Batfish on December, well, generally what
they like to do is run as close to December 7th
as they possibly can, either the first weekend
or the weekend that's closest to the 7th. We
do what's called a Pearl Harbor Memorial. and
it becomes a special event station. It's really
a submarine and it's quite literally in Muskogee,
Oklahoma. It is a 300 -foot Gato class submarine
that they floated up the Arkansas River and put
literally on land the submarine. And then what
we've done in the submarine is we've literally
activated the communications area. and we run
a special event. And that special event is generally
run by young people. The reason why we like the
young people is that, one, it gives them the
ability to learn so much about the history of
what happened during Pearl Harbor. The kids operate
the radio station. Now, these are all kids who
are technician, general, and extra class licenses.
And the ages range anything from 10 years old
to you know, however old, old, old, so old you
can barely fit through the hatch, kind of old.
But what basically happens is they operate out
of the submarine for the entire weekend, or they
operate out of the USS Oklahoma mobile area for
that weekend as well. And it makes as many contexts
as they can. You saw a couple of videos like
my son where they ended up talking to the Battleship
USS Wisconsin. Which, uh, that was kind of a
boon for them. So the submarine talking to a,
uh, Oh, it was USS Iowa. I'm sorry. It was the
Wisconsin. It was an Iowa class battleship. My
son just corrected me. It was one of those states.
What was really cool is the kids learn so much
about what happened in World War II. They get
to experience, you know, staying on the sub for
an extended period of time. And they get a feel
for what our soldiers and what our forefathers
went through during, you know, a time of duress.
And it's sobering and it's really cool to see,
especially seeing the kids. And you know me,
Neil, I'm one of those ones that if I can do
something to spark the imaginations of the youth,
I'll do it in a heartbeat. Kind of like what
we did here this week tonight, where we've set
up MCOM -1. And we set it up to, um, to talk
to Santa and, you know, we like to do a special
shout out to KB0FX. He was our Santa and we were
talking both over HF and VHF. Uh, you know, the
kids were able to call, you know, basically call
Santa, Santa would talk to the kids and, you
know, they had their first experience with radio.
And now, um, you know, they go back to the clubhouse
and next thing you know, that's all they're talking
about is talking on the radio and they want to
talk on the radio. You know to someone else can
they do that kind of a deal? Which so now I got
parents looking at me with the stink. I saying,
okay, how much is gonna cost? You don't have
to worry about your kids ever being on drugs
because they can't afford anything after they
start buying all these radios Exactly. That's
it So it was it was really good and I really
do appreciate his help We couldn't have done
it without him, and it was really nice for him
to volunteer his time. He put a scheduled event
off to the side so that we could do this. And
Neil, I'm sorry about me being tardy, but I think
you understand what I'm doing now, so hopefully
I can get some forgiveness on that one. If I
can get kids on the radio, if I can get a spark,
if I can get them to want more. and learn more
and understand this wonderful universe that we
live in, I'll do it in a heartbeat. And just
like with the bad fish, I don't get paid for
it. I just love doing it. And for me, too, with
the bad fish, it's one of those things that I
personally, let's just say it's like, I spend
a lot of time thinking about it now that I've
been in it for so much time. And I don't work
just necessarily on the radio. I work on other
things, too, inside that boat. to help keep her
in condition. And what's really neat about the
club, the radio club that is associated with
the museum approach to. Using your signal there
a little bit. They don't just work on just the
radio stuff. they focus on other things like
one at one time we had a lot of rain and the
boat kind of listed a little bit so literally
the club got together a couple people are farmers
we got tractors and we helped to rewrite you
know to kind of move the boat a little bit to
level it out a little bit um and then we do other
work on the inside one guy worked on the uh was
working on the conning tower to keep it you know
keep it in good condition you know we'll do some
painting i mean the club has literally take owner
not taken ownership of it but You know, they,
they take a personal affection to the, to the,
to the submarine itself. And to me, that's a
beautiful example of how clubs can interact with,
you know, special things like the, like the submarine.
Sounds, uh, sounds like an interesting, uh, Special
event and I know a lot of people were Excited
to work that one too. So well, let's open up
the phone lines here again That phone number
is eight one two net ham one eight one two six
three eight four two six one if you have a question
for Emmett w0qh from radio waves will have time
to get that in and then we want to save a little
bit of time to talk a little bit about the holidays
and a gift that you've got for our listeners
so we'll do that here in just a few minutes but
if you have a question let's go ahead and take
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us at HamTalk Live. So let's see we got the We
got the fan die pole covered. ENW1GIW had asked
about tuning a double bazooka for 80, and I think
Rochelle pretty well covered that, that it's
just not the same for 80 and for 75. Right. Right.
You know, yeah, the double bazooka is fairly
broadband, but quite often people will want the
antenna to be peak in the areas that they normally
operate. So that'd be either on the phone side,
which we call 75 meters, or on the digital CW
side, which we call 80 meters. And we could probably
set the bazooka up to work in the middle, but
the efficiency goes down because of the way of
the design of the antenna as you move out of
the resonance of the antenna itself. All right,
so give us a call eight one two six three eight
four two six one and Mike KB zero FX is on the
comments here Left comment says glad to help.
So thanks. Thanks Mike for helping out on that
he was even feeling under under the weather and
you know, he even he came along and helped out
and Yeah, he spent a lot of time on the project
and I greatly appreciate it and it really says
a lot about the ham radio. Oh, you know where
the heart of the ham is, you know, we're looking
at helping anywhere we can and appreciate Mike
and what he did. All right, and Dr. Scott Wright
K0MD has a couple of questions And actually this
is one that I was getting ready to go to was
some winterizing of your antennas Scott wants
to know what we should do when building wire
antennas to make them last longer with the wind
and the ice Wind in the ice is just something
if you know you've got a lot of heavy wind And
you know you're gonna have icing don't go with
a lightweight wire as in you know a lot of times
the most intent a lot of manufacturers use like
a 16 gauge wire or whatever you go with the heavier
gauge wire You know I wouldn't say anything more
than 10 gauge would be would be anything more
that you need especially around 80 meters The
heavier gauge wire though is a lot obviously
a lot more visible but it's also, you know, it's
a lot more sturdy and strong and it can handle
the rigors of having the ice loading, then follow
that with wind and so on, because we do have
problems every once in a while where, you know,
sometimes the conditions just got so bad that
it stretched the antenna and the antenna, you
know, fell out of resonance. That's number one.
Number two is when you terminate the antenna,
as in you connect your connector to the to the
bottom of the balan or whatever you use to connect
the antenna to what you do is you will what we
do is we like to use with a stuff called stuff
which is a dielectric filler which fills in the
the void in between the SO239 connector and the
PL connector and then we also use a small amount
on the threads of the of the SO connector just
a little dab of the like a pinotrox which helps
to it's a sacrificial chemical that you know
as things moisture or whatever starts to try
and permeate it helps to lock it out plus it'll
sacrifice itself instead of corroding and oxidizing
then of course you'll use either I prefer to
use that silicone safety tape because it's easy
to put on it feels really good it does it's pretty
much permanent But it's easy to take off again.
Most wire antennas, if you were to install them,
always install them with the mindset that you're
going to be taking it down in six months or you
need to be able to inspect it every major seasonal
change just to make sure that the antenna works.
I know historically most hams have all said,
well, I put it up and it's been up there for
15 years. Well, that's good. You did a good job.
But reality is that you'll do a lot better if
you set your system up. to where you can service
it so that way if something does go wrong you
can quickly fix the problem and get yourself
back on the air again instead of saying oh the
antenna snapped and i i gotta wait three months
before i can get a bucket truck out here to you
know put this thing back up into the tree all
right very good and and one more question from
uh from Scott and then we need to move on here.
But he wants to know if you're planning on making
any inverted L's for the low bands. Thank you
for asking that question. That's a very good
question. We are making, actually I've got it
in design right now, several inverted L's and
a couple other antennas that will give you that,
you know, are literally ultra low frequencies.
You're not going to need a lot of real estate
but understand Because these frequencies are
so low and we're looking at such a, um, Oh, let's
just say it's going to be, it's going to be an
interesting endeavor for anyone who gets into
it. But yes, we are planning on building. As
a matter of, I do have a couple of designs done.
It's just a matter of, you know, I'm getting
the, uh, I'm doing some field testing first before
I even announced that it's done or it's ready
to go as a product. But yes, we are making some
inverted Ls. So, um, and also some Ls and a couple
other. variations of the same All right, very
good. So thanks Scott for your questions and
and thanks also to Ian and Nick for your questions
tonight and we've got a couple of minutes left
in the show, but we wanted to get one more thing
in here before we sign off for the night and
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Oh Okay, I gotta ask you a real quick question
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it turns out that we have a last -minute young
lady who showed up who would like very much to
talk to oh And she's been naughty and Santa needs
Santa needs to talk to her for a little bit and
and back on the radio again on the repeater So
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communication so Okay, but Yeah, Mike, if you're
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the microphone right there by the keyboard. Yep,
say KB0FX. KB0FX. This is your in -user call
sign. This is KB0YWH. Are you there? Are you
there? Okay, try it again. KB0FX. There we go.
There he is, all right. Well, Troy Simpson, W9KVR
says, informative tonight and Merry Christmas
to you as well. And hello to Scott, 85ORW, first
time listener tonight. So thanks for coming up
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