Reply With Quotehttp://www.new-tronics.com/main/manual/4btv.pdf
maybe this pdf might help....seems they were colour coded.....perhaps a PN might be visible.
Rob
Trapped by a Hustler
I have been given a 4-BTV in good condition but the labels are warn and unreadable on the 10m and 15m traps.
My question is how can I tell them apart?
20m OK as it has the spider attached, it just the two I'm stuck on.
http://www.new-tronics.com/main/manual/4btv.pdf
maybe this pdf might help....seems they were colour coded.....perhaps a PN might be visible.
Rob
Orion,
Should have said that paperwork came with it, problem is there is NO visible colour!
Antenna is/was set up but two traps are not marked.
talking to someone tonight looks like I am getting the use of an antenna analyser that will sort it!!
Thanks for the help I'll keep you posted.
both 10 & 15 meters should have different values and i think that the higher value is the 15 meters?
Got the use of the clubs analyser tonight so I'll see whats said, hopefully they will agree with you!!Originally Posted by M0WAO
Hey Pete, you could do what I did when I put my MA5B together.
Follow the instructions carefully, paying extra attention to the traps, specifically the way they are supposed to be mounted, remembering the comments you read on eHam about getting them oriented correctly.
Install the traps, double checking them to make sure they're right.
When the aerial won't tune correctly, take the traps out and put them back the right way round!
Endure continual pi$$ taking from your friends who were helping you put the aerial up
Oh NO your friends didn't do that did they, that's not nice? . . . . . . . . . . . well done them!!Endure continual pi$$ taking from your friends who were helping you put the aerial up
Getting my bits checked out at the club this eve, if you know what I mean!!
Bob (a non ham) that helps me just puts it down to the fact that I'm old if things don't work first time!!
Right I'm out of the traps and off and running, thanks to a computer program and a little box that shows where any piece of wet string resonates.
So look out world I'm on my way!!
M0WAO
The program shows the readout in MHz so can't tell you about the values.
Have you got it up yet?
Not even the antenna!!
Still a bit windy here and raining now I've just been told, also need a 4 foot ground spike but working on that!!
Want to get it up in time for SOS Radio Week!
Not just a ground spike, Pete but radials as well. Before I went with the mast and beam I was looking at verticals and to get the best out of them you really need to put down some radials as well, the more the better but I'd go with eight as a minimum.
No worries Keith, As it will be on the ground I can add radials as and when, trying to get a bit of pipe the right size at the right price is the first thing.
Looking like angle grinder to a scaffold pole that will be spare at the moment, then an insert into that as the U bolts don't go round the pole!!
As for radials chicken wire was suggested but paperwork shows separate ones, and how important is length?
I like the look of separate ones easy to bury!!
Antenna is up, hearing USA & Canada just before teatime, never heard VE3 from here before.
Now to sort radials!!
it was lovely weather today to put an antenna down
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