This page contains links to articles by YCCC members on technical or operating topics that may be of interest to the amateur radio community.
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Terrain Analysis: Some YCCC Case Studies
by Dean Straw, N6BV A Presentation at the New England Division YCCC Meeting on Saturday, August 14, 2004.
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K2KQ Double-L Antenna For 80/160
by Don Toman, K2KQ A popular misconception about vertical antennas for the low bands is that they must have elaborate ground systems. Here’s a vertical antenna for 80 and 160, fed with a single feed line that is simple, effective, and requires no ground system. You won’t beat the 4-squares, but you will hold your……
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Common-Mode Chokes
by Chuck Counselman, W1HIS
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Band Pass Stubs
by Eric Scace K3NA This presentation covers the construction of stubs for harmonic rejection at the W1KM station.
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What is VOACAP Trying to Tell Me?
by Dean Straw, N6BV A Presentation to tThe Yankee Clipper Contest Club in Milford, CT on February 1, 2003.
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Why We Stack ‘Em! Covering All the Angles
by Dean Straw, N6BV This was first presented at the YCCC Meeting in Milford, CT, February 1, 2003.
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Improving the AL-1200 Relay Speed
Tony Brock-Fisher, K1KP The basic problem is that the AL-1200 relay is a bit slow. I have developed a circuit that can be built and installed in the external keying line to the AL-1200 which will significantly increase the speed of the stock relay. No modifications are required to the AL-1200. The cricuit works by……
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Two-Wire Beverage
by Jeff Parker, KA1GJ I recently erected a simple two-wire Beverage antenna and, during a recent on-the-air meeting, was asked to write it up for the Scuttlebutt. The design of this antenna is published in the two excellent books listed below as references 1 and 2. The two-wire Beverage is fed from one end but……
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The FVR Spitfire Array
(A “poor man’s 4-square” for Top Band) by John Kaufmann W1FV and Fred Hopengarten K1VR