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Maco has their standard 2000 watt gamma match, a 5,000 watt gamma match that uses the same mounting hardware and SO-239 and may handle more power, but doesn't change or improve the antenna., The Maco 10,000 watt gamma match comes with its own mounting hardware and the coax attaches with...

Many years ago there was a(antenna?) company that sold an antenna switch that allowed switching vertical, horizontal and connecting both together. It was pretty heavy, but I think the circuit for both was power limited. Jo Gunn sold the spider-looking antenna, with vertical and horizontal for...

Icom released a version of the IC-718 referred to as the "2024" version, which supposedly has some new digital IF filtering. One odd thing is the manual for it still references additional crystal filters, which no longer available. I don't know how different it is from the previous US version...

Both resistor wires and spark plugs age. Some resistor plugs burn out the resistor, leaving a spark gap inside of the spark plug. I think (Chinese?) Autolites might be famous for this. Old spark plug wires can leak interference. Before high energy electronic ignitions, it was either resistor...

There is a big difference between a noise blanker and automatic noise limiter. An automatic noise limiter is usually just some capacitors to reduce high frequency noise in the audio and causes little to no distortion and can be kept on. A noise blanker is an active electronic circuit that...