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I got my beam kit bashed back together from spare bits working fine electrically.... did talk to Jamaica for a minute but not much else working for me. I can hear the East coast talking to Houston but I'm seemingly in a dead zone .... a small beam and 1 Kilo Whiskeys and nada.....I'd tear my...
Good news insurance did cover minus depreciation the antenna. Pulled it down unbent it with some heat and some replacement hardware bits and spares.
It's ugly but it's back up and seems to working. I'll set that money aside for a new one if this one comes apart as it may do ultimately.
One of the other perhaps benefits of the VQs are you can kind of best of both worlds with the polarization of the signal.
IE if you're trying to talk vertical / mobile or omnidirectional guys or horizontal (flat side) to yagi beam guys..... the m103/04 so on is either or (vertical or horizontal)...
No, the takeoff angle references the radiation pattern and the angle at which I believe it hits the ionosphere and is bounced back toward earth (someone more technically minded here correct me if I am wrong) of which the angle of the VQUAD / VQ3 series has a superior angle for longer distance...
Heard @unit_399 calling on 27.385 but Imax wasn't enough to get back to him.
Beams down from that tornado that dead centered me. I hollered back but no bueno.
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