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Art Bell, W6OBB, has created a live feed of his Icom 756 Pro II at his broadcast station in Pahrump, Nevada. Audio is sent from there to the S-Meter site via a private feed. The receiver uses an inverted-v dipole antenna with the apex at 100-feet above ground. It is fed with 450 Ohm ladder line all the way to the rig.

This site has provided me hours of enjoyment. I was an avid fan of Art when he was on Coast to Coast. Now in his retirement you can enjoy his frequent ragchews much like you did his show.

By the way the site that hosts this feed is also very informative. It houses tomes of radio and antenna information. Smeter.net is where I found MMANA. MMANA is an antenna-analyzing tool based on the moment method first introduced in the MININEC Version 3. I other words, it is an antenna analysis and modeling program, that is FREE. I used the version I found here (or Direct Download Link) for a while until I found out that the makers of it had come up with a newer version. The new version, MMANA-GAL, (or Direct Download Link) has been updated with a 3d renderer for field plots, and a more robust optimization routine. Of particular interest is this link which contains archives of .maa (antenna files) for use with the MMANA program.

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