WRO-Pop'Comm Live Internet Chat, October 2

The first WRO-Pop'Comm Live Internet Chat is set for Sunday, October 2 at:


< http://www.WorldRadioOnline.blogspot.com >


You're invited to take part in the session, which begins at 8 p.m. Eastern time (0000 UTC).

It is open to WorldRadio Online and Popular Communications magazine readers and anyone with an interest in the many forms of communication.

Hosting will be Richard Fisher, KI6SN, editor of both WRO and Pop'Comm. Hope to see you there.


Click here for a quick link to the WRO Blog.

September 2011 Pop'Comm Reader Survey is Online

It's soooooooo easy.

Click here take Popular Communications magazine's September Reader Survey online.

Be sure to fill in the contact information at the bottom of the survey questionnaire to be eligible for a year's free subscription to Pop'Comm or an extension of a current subscription. We randomly draw a winner each month, and it could be you.

Details On DTV Indoor Antenna Featured in August Pop'Comm

In pictorial form, here are details about the indoor DTV antenna - using coat hangers for elements and phasing lines - featured in the August 2011 edition of Pop'Comm. Elements are 16-inches in length, with a bend at the eight-inch point, forming a V shape.

Here is the completed antenna, showing phasing lines, elements, impedance

transformer and coaxial feedline to the DTV converter.

For an enlarged view, click on the images.

Simple wood screws and washers hold the phasing lines in place. A piece of insulation (blue) is used to keep the phasing lines from shorting where they cross one another.

An impedance transformer - available at RadioShack and Walmart - matches the antenna's 300-ohms to the coaxial line's 75 ohms.

Here's what the impedance transformer packaging looks like at Walmart.

Live Chat With Pop'Comm Editor KI6SN, Sept. 11