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Hello Patrick,<div><br></div><div>I can answer some of your questions. I bought a new Tohtsu CX-520D coax relay with N connectors that’s good to 2 Ghz at 150 watts, you can see it here..around $100. Going to use it with my 2304Mhz transverter and 80 watt amplifier. <a href="https://www.rfparts.com/cx520d.html" target="_blank">https://www.rfparts.com/cx520d.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div>I put up a 37 foot crank up tower last year with 13 feet of mast sticking out of the tower. Not cheap to do, but you go with what you can put up. Most of my antennas are from 40-48 feet up. Good enough to work stations in contests and some DX when there are openings. I keep the tower cranked down almost 90% of the time.</div><div><br></div><div>73 from across the Lake Michigan pond. Jeff K9YR EN52<br><div id="temp-enhancr-placeholder" class="enhancr-placeholder-medium" data-size="medium"></div><br><br><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 23:31, Patrick Thomas <p-thomas@mindspring.com> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">A couple questions... first, I've been looking around for some SPDT ("A/B") remote coax relays that would be suitable up to low microwave frequencies, and able to handle "decent" power. Any suggestions... other than ebay, or buying one new for $400+? :)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Secondly, has there been any consideration in periodically holding MIVUS events somewhere around the east side? Or if I want to see something like that, should I just "build it" and advertise here, and they will come? Not sure how officially-sanctioned such things typically are.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Last but not least, I am in a bit of a hole here geographically; I have yet to get a VHF signal anywhere west of about Howell with rooftop-level antennas. Is this typical? Antenna height is limited to 40ft here - at least when the code enforcement guys come to check it, ha ha - and due to the sort of "forest" conditions around here, I cannot use guy wires, and I really need to get up about 70ft before I'm well above the treeline. A 70ft telescopic would be ideal but not much luck so far. Any ideas on a stop gap solution? Short of moving/roving.... :)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Or remote stations, heh.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Patrick<br></div><div dir="ltr">KB8DGC<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">MiVUS mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a ymailto="mailto:MiVUS@mivus.org" href="mailto:MiVUS@mivus.org">MiVUS@mivus.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">subscribe/unsubscribe <a href="http://mail.mivus.org/mailman/listinfo/mivus_mivus.org" target="_blank">http://mail.mivus.org/mailman/listinfo/mivus_mivus.org</a><br></div><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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