Radio Society of Greater Bixby

First to arrive John KI5OYW won early arrival prize of a ferrite and magnesium forever match, and brought along his new Power Pole crimpers and supplies. Tom WA5MAZ showed his newly made Under Window coax passage made of brass strip and a female UHF connector. Larry W5LQF had a selection of those old HBO and other premium channel filters that the cable company put in your cable feed to filter out channels you weren’t paying for.

Most of our meeting time was spent discussing and dissecting ferrite cores Kenny KJ5EKW brought in, one of the variety looking as if it’d come right out of the ARL end fed antenna kit. See pic below.

Note: If you want to build an End Fed kit, Gabe K5LDX has some made up. Look him up on QRZ dot com. He was showing them at the TARC Field Day in Haikey Creek Park.

As advertised, we did explain and debunk the idea that it doesn’t matter about the amount of copper below the U part of a home made J-Pole antenna. RF will flow down there, radiate, and mess up the radiation pattern of the antenna. Phillip KJ5PFV bypassed the 5 foot tall J controversy with 3 beautiful examples of quarter wave ground planes, copper wire and a chassis mount UHF connector for 2M, 220, and 440 bands with 19. 13, and 6 inch dimensions .