Your probably right and believe me those thoughts go thru my head. I have seen times when you regret trying to Super Tune things. LOL Them inner thoughts and feeling can be like a old Nag Nag Nag ! LOL
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11 meter is very quiet?
- Thread starter Tweetybird
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I'm getting used to my Quad6Pro. At first, the receive sucked (noisy, 3-5 S units). But after cranking down the RF Gain a tad, and installing ferrite cores on every electrical/coax cord in my station, The noise is gone.
I loved my trusty 139XLR, but the Q6PRO has so many more features and more wattage. Most of all, I get 100% excellent feedback from my contacts.
I hooked up an external "RF" meter, a digital audio spectrum display, and an SDR waterfall display. I only need to find the AGC output on the board to get my external "S" meter online. I switched from the stock hand mike to a different dynamic hand mike that responds better to my voice. Trying to make it a poor man's ICOM 7300
If only the controls weren't so damn small I'd be a total happy camper.
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I completely tore down my station yesterday to rearrange things and clean up the wiring mess. Hopefully back on the air by the weekend
73 Amigos.
- J.J. 399
I loved my trusty 139XLR, but the Q6PRO has so many more features and more wattage. Most of all, I get 100% excellent feedback from my contacts.
I hooked up an external "RF" meter, a digital audio spectrum display, and an SDR waterfall display. I only need to find the AGC output on the board to get my external "S" meter online. I switched from the stock hand mike to a different dynamic hand mike that responds better to my voice. Trying to make it a poor man's ICOM 7300
If only the controls weren't so damn small I'd be a total happy camper.
EDIT:
I completely tore down my station yesterday to rearrange things and clean up the wiring mess. Hopefully back on the air by the weekend
73 Amigos.
- J.J. 399
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You got that right & the coax connection on the back really stinks and I'm always mumbling bad things when I'm changing the connection. They sure didn't create a masterpiece with that radio and if you have big fingers you can be changing more than 1 thing when you fool around with the knobs. The test of time is yet to be seen !
Some time you have to laugh ! Yesterday the solar site said conditions would be good and I could hardly catch any on or make any contacts but today was suppose to be fair and I banged out Pensacola FL. first thing in my Cobalt. And later on the way to Walmart 37-39 lsb was hopping but couldn't make contacts. LOL Ya gotta take it with a gain of salt and like Charlie Rich said in one of his songs, Just Rolling with the Flow !
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wasnt good here. lots of voices signal strenght was good but never got a comeback
I tried calling for a few hours this morning, I raised one contact with James, a local about 40 miles away and that was it.
I am really waiting for the conditions to settle down a little, I think as we go in to fall that the band will get better.
73
Jeff
I am really waiting for the conditions to settle down a little, I think as we go in to fall that the band will get better.
73
Jeff
when limb broke coupler on my sirro 2008 i didnt get it fully extended. made a jib pole and put pully on it. hand comealong pulled the needed 10 feet up to where its 35 ft to base of antenna, swr flat very flat on 11 meters 10 and 12 it rises to 1:2 to1 to 1:3 to 1. anyhow heard stout voices.waited n got a break.i had 857 in south carolina said i was hitting him hard nice crisp clear modulation STRONG signal. we too a stand by and us marshal in north carolina said same about my station. then it dropped out. but the saying height
is might is true. since antenna was at 25 ft it just didnt get out now its kickin azz n writin down names.
thats radioing
is might is true. since antenna was at 25 ft it just didnt get out now its kickin azz n writin down names.
thats radioing
If it ain't broke, don't fix it! You could shorten it but I wouldn't even bother because that's plenty good!
But my preference would be to have the 1.1 at the high end of the 11 meter band and the 1.3 at the low end of the band because I don't waste time at the low end of the band because that is where the Stupid bowl is at. ( Channel 6 ) And with all the Hills, Trees, & Valleys where I live I try to maximize my output all I can. But a man does get tired of Shining Shit ! One of my neighbors who moved away use to be into talking DX years ago and one time said he was surprised I even bother in this valley. But I do get out of here just not as well as others. Guess I'm a stubborn Old Fart. LOL
Short skip today with contacts to Montana and Alberta this morning. Skip died out by midday, but now I am hearing a little Florida and Alabama and some spanish stuff creeping in......
dont as k how he did it but a guy down on table rock lake bought a property in a revene thats very narrow. a sight unseen buy. but set up a tall rohn tower . went up sides of the revene and placed sheets of reflective metal and worked till he was getting out .he secured the reflectors. has it set to his roter positions. we talk now n then. but he was a military radio guy so i suppose he learned from uncle sam.
i was at his place 1 time and the reflecters suprize me how they work. he owns the full revene. i asked why not put up tower behind your house at top of revene ? he said winds never happen ,its usually a slow breeze at best
A lot of areas has it's share of specialty problems and mine is worse on the north east side the railroad over a hundred years ago made a artificial mountain to make a shortcut for their railroad line. That is what interferes with me on the N/E side because I'm up against it. My next door neighbor who is about 100 yards down the side hill from me has a tall garage that if I could have my antenna on that building it would open up this valley better for me, but it is what it is. At least I'm not in a flood prone area and don't get winds like the top of the hill. I have to count my blessings!
I've got a good location near the top of a mountain (5600 Ft.) I have a clear shot in all directions except South, where the actual mountain top is (about 40 meters higher). So talking to stations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, etc., isn't happening for me. It's better since I got my tower. But it is what it is.
- J.J. 399
It's funny you talk about your friend and his reflectors because that is something I have thought of trying for my blister pack GMRS radios to try to explore that realm of GMRS radio. I was setting at my desk one night and can't remember why but I turned on my blister pack and in come rolling a business like conversation that didn't sound like local yokels and then it was gone and there is no real businesses around. I inquired about a reflector in a GMRS forum and got no where. But like you say I bet someone has had some exotic training in pulling in signals. Me I wouldn't know where to start. Right now I don't want to bite off more than I can chew !
There are good points where you are
id say lots of math and trial n error but him being ex military radio guy he probably had some idea.a compas might be a tool as well as ,dang it cant think o its name now but they use em on ships to look at a star to get angles and refrence point?