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These days $3,000 isn't really all that much, I know plenty of people paying that much in rent every month. As well, such electronic instruments should always be thought of as investments and not just purchases. Just a few jobs using that equipment and it will have paid for itself.

What Crawdad said! It always makes me very happy to see other people taking the plunge and building their own antennas! There's no greater satisfaction than making contact with an antenna you built yourself, whether that's ten miles on MURS or ten thousand miles on 20 meters! Well done.

Woah! Just when you think you've heard it all........... That is complete insanity. So the entire ground for the amp is just the common foil on the board & the flanges of the SO-239's??? Please tell me the heatsink is metal and not plastic LOL! It also must be hideously unstable. Walk near...

Must just be nobody on there. 11 meters has been open darn near worldwide now for weeks. I haven't had a day without skip since the summer doldrums ended.

No. You would need a much more accurate SWR/Peak reading watt meter....Dosy is entry level and not known for accuracy. You would also need a good multimeter, a dummy load, and possibly a basic signal generator as well as a set of plastic alignment tools....metal will shatter the ferrite cores...

Great DX conditions every day now for a couple of weeks. Been busy working but finding enough time here and there to get on the radio. Really enjoying 26.805 FM these days.....pretty cool being able to talk to a lot of the same folks nearly every day, at least until conditions shift around...

LOL! :LOL::LOL: That's funny!

Oh cool! That's great that we connected. I made quite a few WWDX contacts during that 16LSB initiative.......... Hope we can connect again on the airwaves soon!

Personal here is Sean! And your most welcome.......

Any antenna less than 3 feet is not going to work very well, for the simple reason that 1/4 wave at 27 MHz is over 8 feet! So anything less than that is a compromise. That said, I use a 3 foot firestik on a fender mount on my Toyota SUV and it works well enough that I can talk back to my base...

Very easy to figure out if you have a multimeter, an unmolested RS mike with the original connector and the Turner SSK. You will of course need to disassemble both mics enough that you can reach both ends of the wires with the multimeter probes. You are correct that Red is Transmit. Black is...

Great contact with another WWDX member today......45 North Florida booming in on 27.405 LSB. Always nice to meet other forum folks on the air! Also chatted with lots of people on 26.805FM including briefly with 030 in the south of Ireland again. A fine radio day all around!

Money & time don't seem to be an obstacle to 333. He drinks all day and night and still has funds left over to fix his amp when he blows it up. He runs a giant beam antenna too.......supposedly his ERP off the end of the beam is close to 3000 watts. At least that's what I hear from other folks...

Modern radios such as the Icom 7300 and the Anytones and many others are SDR based radios. They look and function as a radio, but in reality they are a computer and all the parameters are set through software. Those parameters may or may not be adjustable by one or more "hidden" menus. There...

Decent DX day up here today, and it's only half over! I talked to 030 in Limerick Ireland on 26.805FM again; I made contact with him last year as well. West coast of Canada to Ireland on 200 watts into a homemade delta loop. Who says you can't DX in FM mode?!?! Made several other contacts on...

I heard most of that QSO and tried to call you at the end of it, but couldn't make the trip back to you! I have a pipeline from here to Illinois these days, and talk 164 sometimes in the morning there on 26.805 FM......... Great conditions here this morning but fizzled a bit in the afternoon...

I had a sneaking suspicion there might be more than one. The original and all the copycats...........

I hear someone called "Taco Bender" from down that way fairly often, and I've heard him within the last week......... so if there's only one Taco Bender I would say he's alive and well.

Didn't get on the radio until early evening, but when I got on around 5pm we had a serious pipeline to Australia and Hawaii going with big signals both ways! Talked to several operators in Australia & Hawaii on 36 & 37 all of who sounded like they were parked a mile down the road from...

There's only 1 S unit difference on receive between a 100 watt signal and a 400 watt signal. The reason you couldn't hear one of the stations is more likely due to him having a less efficient antenna system, lower elevation antenna, or a geographical disadvantage (like being in a deep valley)...