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Just turned 61. Been licensed since 1990, however.

Amen to that. Yup......those amps were NEVER built with the RF sensing cct. They are a true amateur amp and had no such need whatsoever. The only RF sensed amps I have seen are the typical CB amp or some VHF/UHF amps. My 2m amp had the option of using RF sensing or straight radio control. When I...

It depends on the impedance. A series inductor will lower the resonant frequency as well as make the bandwidth narrower. A series capacitor will electrically shorten the antenna and make it resonant higher in frequency. You really need both an inductor and a capacitor because simply adding one...

You understand that correctly. A LPF does absolutely nothing for in-band splatter.

It is rated at 1KW INPUT. It uses four 811A tubes so you have to be careful you do not exceed their ratings. It is clean if not over driven. As for power out, consider it almost as good as the Ameritron AL-811A. I say "almost" because the Ameritron has a better power supply in it. You should see...

I don't diss CBers in general but listen to a lot of the crap on the band and you can see why someone would. FWIW I started on 11m, mostly DXing, always on SSB and pretty much on the Freeband. It was great.......waaaaay back then.I am going by my own experience, which is all anyone can do, when...

Oh I have used the reviews there too in the past to get a general idea of any faults that may be an issue but as far as general use, most reviews are like travel reviews.........all over the place. Some think it is the greatest thing on earth, while others detest their very existence and wonder...

Take the reviews on eHam.net with a grain of salt. LOL

There are lots of unlicensed operators on qrz.com. Accounts are deleted usually only if you are a dick and from the usual dicks there, you have to be a REAL bad dick to get dumped.

And 99% of those operators are CBers that got their ham tickets and then returned to CB to continue their crap because they know they would be called out for it on the ham bands.

Listening is not the issue at hand. Having a conversation with someone is a LOT more distracting than simply listening to a scanner. Believe me, I am against this type of regulations but I also know for a fact that people in general, not all but a large number, tend to get wound up in their...

The old "I was just using it to listen" is a straw man argument. It is the same thing as trying to tell the FCC that you are only using the preamp feature in your amp to hear better, and you never use it to boost your power output. If it is present, it is deemed to be used.

You can run the feedline up inside the lower half if you use copper pipe, and that should be the side connected to the shield of the cable. This will decouple the feedline from the antenna rather well.

I beg to differ. Aluminum will deteriorate FASTER than copper, especially if the soil is acidic. I worked in commercial broadcasting for 22 years. ALL AM stations use copper radials. One of my stations first went on the air November 13, 1945. It remained on the same site until we moved it in...

True however REALLY smart engineers can write new ones. ;)

Also at one of our sites we moved in 1986, we made a ground screen about 12-15 feet square out of stranded, bare #6 copper wire. This was installed directly at the tower base. It was basically a screen that we used to help with stability of the ground system in the immediate field of the tower...

We always used bare #10 or #12 solid copper wire for the radials in our AM transmitter sites. Never an issue. On my 5BTV vertical, I used whatever I had on hand, which was a combination of both solid and stranded insulated wire. Size was between 16 and 20 gauge.The more the merrier when it comes...

Not quite sure just how much you mean by a little north of dead south, but from your location to the east coast of Australia halfway between Sydney and Brisbane is 240 degrees true bearing. Not real sure what the deviation between true north and magnetic north is for you.

Natasha probably called him for supper. Can't beat that borscht.

LOL one night there was a bunch of us on SSB and one guy was using VOX. We were all greeted to just what it took for him to get his kids to bed when they didn't want to go.