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Hahahahahahaha like it’s owner huh

I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading, building and wondering about vertical antennas. I’ve raised them and I’ve lowered them. I’ve tried 1/4, 1/2 and 5/8 wave. All things considered, it don’t matter just a whole lot really what antenna you use once you’re off the ground. On the ground or at...

Icom 718 rx is fine. Tx isn’t working. Key up and it just “thumps” repeatedly. Had a lightning strike close to me and I assume static hit me. Might’ve been some lightning I dunno. Radio was off but antenna was hooked up. Any ideas

After lightening got my archer .64 I took to rebuilding an original avanti Astroplane I had been given a while back. Took it all apart cleaned up the joints replaced the connection wire from the so239 to the driven sleeve and drilled out the snapped bolt from the top and rethreaded it. Drug it...

Does it matter if I isolate the mast from the tower? I’m at 50’ to the bottom of the skirt on a tower. Also wouldn’t I need a choke at the same place it isolated from the tower? Isn’t that like 9’? But just how much difference does it make if any

I’ve been wondering how it’d do at say fifty ft vs the astroplane at fifty

Been looking at the 5/8 Gainmaster. All sorts of noise bout it everywhere. But what’s the software say about it at different heights?

I’ve run one for years. I love it. Quick and has a pretty good spread. I prefer it over my mfj auto

Am on this radio has a very tight modulation range. Is there a mod setting or adjustment to lower the carrier and increase the modulation?

I have several radios ranging from old and simple to more current and in between. I’ve noticed that rf gain just doesn’t seem to be rf gain across the board. It seems to me that there are two different methods that have been used. One is actually a rf gain control where the sensitivity is indeed...

Maybe just a bit. Hahahaha. Amazingly it wasn’t running bad really. It’s better now but looking at those I’d guessed it’d been worse.

It was a little quiet yesterday afternoon on the ride home

See the qt80 and external noise blanker on YouTube in a mobile

Lo and behold one wasn’t a resistor plug. It was the hardest one to get to so my guess is it’s been there a min. Dist cap was arced and corroded. New wires, cap, bug and ngk resistor plugs. Most, not all, ignition noise is now gone. It’s low enough the nb can handle it. Lowered it 5 s units...

No it’s close enough. I just find it’s off a bit. I’m not talking like and additional 2 or 3 or anything. But one lags behind the other. I usually listen to static. Then fine tune it with the meter

Right. Like you said the old terms. My old arrl handbooks from way back talk about that but the new stuff don’t. We’ve lost too much by not keeping the older books. But i think by reason that it would. I wonder though if any improvement is due to just efficiency or if it’s radiation pattern...

I know we had a conversation about if resonance was your best preforming adjustment of an antenna. And swr has been beat to death too. But let me see if I can twist it some more. It’s too chilly for me to be interested in trying this right now but I’ve been curious about trying this out to see...

Like a dog chasing his tail. Fun but kind of pointless.

How’s the cap hat on your screwdriver work half way up the stinger?

If a quarter wave verticals on a vehicle is the top half of a half wave dipole, then the stretch for current maximum lies in extending the length of the antennas top half. Correct? To do this you’d need to lengthen the antenna by a cap hat, a longer vertical, or a top load coil, correct? or am...