Recent content by secret squirrel

Its, very confusing. Over the years I have tried, the Lil Wil, K30, And a Tram mag mount. I have have best luck with the Tram mag mounts. The magnet is bit bigger. Truck cabs at difficult animals. Traditionally, we do not trust the built in meters in the radios and go with the External...

I was thinking you were saying the meter shot up above 3 on all channels 1 to 40. That indicates a short in the antenna system, however if Channel 1 is 2+, Channel 20 is 1.5, Channel 40 is 3+ it looks like it is too short towards Channel 40. It will need lengthened to bring the 3+ down to a...

Welcome to the forum. And, I would believe the external meter. Your may have a short to ground somewhere in your antenna system. The meter in the radio is simply reading no signal from the antenna system.

I am making new base antenna plans. My question is has anyone ever co-phased two Astroplane antennas together. There is a wooden utility shed 50 feet from the residence, about 9 foot high roof, building about 12 feet long. I figure I can easily mount 2 tripod mounts on the roof then use 2- 5...

The hoist up a tree may be doable. My old house I have a A99 about 20-30 feet up- racket strapped to the tree trunk. I paid a professional tree trimmer $100 to put it in the tree for me. Worked great and hidden. I would recommend anyone that has the resources try a similar setup. Thanks again.

Thank you. I had thought about a dipole between trees. I do had plenty of trees available. Also I thought about the pre-made Double Bazookas.

Logically this may be an impossible problem, but I believe with the collective knowledge we may have an educated answer. My father owns a hunting camp in Northern Pennsylvania. Its just about were Elk, Cameron and Clearfield counties meet. Beautiful area, without any light pollution from...

If you have the opportunity. hooking up to an external outdoor antenna will increase your receive a great deal. Not trying to get you into a big time project. I have a scanner running in the house. I ended up with an extra antenna- I had bought Workman Saturn B-100- 39 inch, no ground plane...

What kind of antenna are you using? Do you have it hooked to an external antenna?

Hope you get it up and running. My memory fails me, but I think that radio has very good filtering on the receive. I always appreciated the sound of those old Midlands.

I have the same type of setup on my 2017 Nissan Rouge. Three foot Firestik does good for local stuff and I can still go thru Drive-Thrus. I upgraded the antenna stud to a Tram Big Cat stud. The mount will handle my 9 foot stainless steel whip with the big spring too. I just run the big whip...

'Just woke up and cleaned up an old 2003 Dell mini-tower PC for my boy's to try out some old PC games. Or, mainly for me to play a version of Battleship on the PC, it shows the big guns firing. It was not a big job. It was a matter of just cleaning up the dust, cleaning the DVD drives, I...

...We had a lot of fun with this thread.

Best pro-Capitalism movie of it's time.

Thank you all. It just surprised me to see Sparky's old forum up and running. I am still wanting for a reply on the shipping for my General Lee with the Spark-Tune Modulator. LOL