Recent content by LumpySnake

I got a 959 in my truck. Good little radio. Sounds great and gets out far.

Hey Thanks for the info CDX. I might have to try that sometime sounds like it would get out a lot further than mine is. And yes I am enjoying myself very much with this. It really is all about having fun. However there are a few local ppl here that make it kinda hard to have fun. :mad:

This radio use to be my mobile until I got the Galaxy 959. But this radio always had a bad habit of not putting out a lot of power so im thinking the radio itself might have problems. Its pretty old and not to mention when I first got it I didn't know jack about radios and I keyed the thing up...

Wow a lot happened overnight. Okay lets see here. The PS is slightly underpowered. It can crank out 1.2 amp's. When I dead key, the radio pulls about .9 amp's. When talking normally, it goes to about 1.1, and when I whistle only then does it peg the meter and I see a slight voltage drop...

This is what I am interested in right here. How difficult would it be to create such a device?

I took the picture of that meter in the very early stages of development. It now reads 3 watts with an SWR of 1. The needle hardly even moves. As for the co-phasing. What would happen if I tried to use 50 ohm wire? Also what is this backwards 'unun' you speak of?

The driven element is 102'' and the radials are 90''. I currently have a perfect SWR of 1 on the channel I want (14 27.125Mhz) and I am getting almost 3 watts TX power.

Okay I added the choke coil, and lengthened the ground plane radials to 9'. However my SWR is now 2.5 and im getting 1/2 a watt. With the 5' radials my SWR is 1 at 2 watts. Am I missing something here?

I am actually in Tucson AZ. We have lovely soil. It takes an Hour to dig a 1' hole. :cursing: Each ground plane radial is 5' in length. What is this choke supposed to do? Also here is a video walk around of my setup. radio stuffs :: antennawalkaround.flv video by LumpySnake15 -...

So I should just tune it until it puts out the most power? Also I am wanting to experiment with co-phasing antennas. I have been reading up on it and some of the articles I have read say I need 75ohm coax. Would it reduce performance if I used standard 50ohm?

The other day I decided to make my own base station antenna. So I did. And it works, quite well actually. I got my SWR down to 1.1 on the channel I want. However my meter shows im only getting 2 watts of power. After fiddling around with it for a bit i found i could get the full 4 watts...