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I have the Bose and love them - but I do get feed back in them when I have them hooked to the radio and I transmit....Would a ferrite bead fix that problem?

Hey all, I have waded into the land of dedicated audio equipment for my amateur radio equipment and am amazed by the reports I am receiving from others. I do have one problem I have yet to work out and was wondering if anyone had any ideas...but first let me explain what I have setup, as I...

Any recommendations for antennas? I have a couple, but am not very happy with them - have switched over to a smiley 5/8 2 meter that works GREAT, but its just 2 meter. Thanks, Michael

Antennas Made and hung a 20 meter and a 40 meter dipole this weekend, embarrassed to say how easy the whole thing was. I didn't like using prefabricated feed point though - will be making my own for the next set. Thanks for all the help everyone. Michael

Thanks for the info. My first project? Well - I had in mind that I would be looking at one of two things. 1) a wire antenna that would go around my house along / by / thru the rain gutter. I am in a area where I really can't have antennas showing. 2) An end fed 80 meter. I had a G5RV Jr up...

Ok, seriously, for some reason - the Lesson 1 of this doc explained antenna theory better than anything else I have read. Thanks, Michael

Paul, I am going out today to get The Basic Antenna Book - thanks for the info!

Thanks for the help All, I wanted to thank everyone for the information! I think my main issue here is that I am a over analyzer, I know how to put an antenna together - but it just can't be as easy as the books say (I have the ARRL Antenna book and am now reading it front to back, ugh -...

Sorry, I am sure you still do all of your research in a library somewhere, most people though go directly to the sources, thus Social Networking. In todays age, asking these type of questions in a forum is the same as "cracking a book" or looking it up on Google. Thanks again for your input...

Real nice... So because I have not built multiple antennas, then I am not "worthy" of a class of license? Oh please - like anyone has done all things in amateur radio. I, like many many others, have gone and bought proven antenna systems from others and have had good experiences on the bands...

All, I want to start making some antennas on my own instead of buying them...I will be starting with easy ones - dipoles and long wires and such. My biggest question right now is how to I take a wire (lets say some speaker wire) and hook it up to some coax so I can hook it to my Ft-857? I...

I am recently back into amateur radio and will be going for my General license tomorrow (and then onto Extra). I have spent most of my time on UHF and VHF and this will be my first run into HF territory. My question is this....I would like to go with the FT-897D with a vertical antenna for...

All, I will be section hiking part of the Appalachian Trail in Oct with another Ham and was wondering if anyone had recommendations on how to charge my new (will be here Friday) 8DR. The main use of the radios would be for simplex between us if we are separated and to try to hit some of...