Recent content by K7RDN

So how far should the end of the wire be away from the tree to be safe? I will be running between 1000 & 1500 watts.

I have made a 80m dipole (12 gauge insulated wire) and run 100W into it now. Because of my limited space it goes through a couple trees (not touching any branches unless the wind blows) and attaches to another tree with an insulator and kevlar rope. The end of the wire is about 2 feet from where...

Right now my Sirio Gain Master is about 24 feet in the air (to the feed point) and I have a 1.1 to 1 match (the needle just barely moves) with 110 ft of LMR400. I intend on putting it on my roof and then the feed point will be about 50 feet off the ground. I have never hear that the swr will...

WW is right, kind of depend on what you are planning on doing with it, just hitting a repeater or simplex. The main reason I built mine was my radio room is downstairs in my home and the rubber duck on my HT was not sufficient to hit the repeaters. Now I have no problem hitting many repeaters in...

I just built on and got it installed last weekend. Works great! Have a 1.1 to 1.4 match across both bands (2m & 70cm). Got the plans for it here: Copper Cactus J pole antenna - 2 metter 70 Cm dualband By the way, I left 1 1/4" between the tuning section between the 57 1/2" and 38" lengths...

The link I posted works. Yes it doesn't go to Quansheng site, but you can get the software at the link I posted above.

If in fact it is the Gain Master, I put mine up a couple of weekends ago and I have gotten nothing but compliments! It is preforming much better than other people antennas in my area. Just running a Cobra 148 GTL for the base right now, it's been tuned but that is it. I am constantly told that I...

I found another place to download the Quansheng programing software: Quansheng After you unzip the file, make sure you rename the file by removing all the "Chinese" characters and the period (.) after the [1].

Here is a link to the USB drivers I finally got to work: http://www.radiogearpro.com/download/USB_Drivers_64_bit_4.2.0.zip Also I you join the Quansheng TG-UV group on Yahoo, someone had come up with a real nice excel speadsheet that works with the Quansheng software! It make it a lot...

I have used them many times and highly recommend them!

Congratulation, glad to see you got your call sign!

Contacted Radio Gear Pro where I got the TG-UV2 about the USB driver issue and they send me a like for new drivers. THEY WORKED! Yahoo. http://www.radiogearpro.com/download/USB_Drivers_64_bit_4.2.0.zip

Weird Beard, North Idaho

Post the link again as a direct link, cut and paste doesn't work.

I took my Tech and General test on Feb 14th, I received my call sign on the afternoon of the 22nd. Might have had it on the 21st but it was President's Day and they were closed. I was watching several site to see when my sign was posted and the link above to the FCC posted them first. Try this...