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I have heard so many report they have gone out to do POTA (Parks On The Air) and had a lot of what seemed to be purposeful interfence on top of thier signal. Example would be tuning up right on top of the POTA operator for long periods of time. I have seen videos of such interference on...

I have seen them. Tonight my brain goes down this rabbit hole. Hmmm. Could be super secret government transmitters traveling across the bands.

I am impressed with the TROPO maps I see online. They always seem to predict or report those conditions in the east. Over here in the west I just don't seem much of that activity. Oh and TROPO was capitalized to keep spell check from changing the word to troop.

No scorching. That is paint to tone down the white. It works pretty well in summer but come winter the elements still stand out but less so.

Looks really good. I'd be very interested in how it tuned for you.

I'm pleased to read lower 16 is taking off. I did hear some activity myself this week.

Another antenna project for some HF antennas hiding in my tree. Being in a HOA and being interested in doing radio I have gotten quite creative. This group of antennas has gotten me some great DX around the globe. They are quarter wave verticals being fed from a single coax. Think of it as a...

Thanks for the information. I will be doing just as you say when the weather improves a bit. Interpreted, when it gets warmer once again. It is dropping into the 20s here. Grabbing onto the metal mast isn't my idea of fun at those temperatures.

Big Stick was my first commercial antenna. I built a DIY half wave dipole and used it a year before getting the big stick. So when I found this avaliable I grabbed onto it. I do think you are right about the corrosion and will check it when weather improves.

I measured my output on the 980 and AM was only 1.5 watts. I recalled that I had turned the power down for my KL-203 when I had it running last. So I dug deeper into my box of stuff and found the 203. Put it in line and measured the output. Much better than 1.5 now.

RG214 is a variant of the RG213. It has dual shield. It is very problematical to put fittings on compared to 213. 73. AB7XX

Yes it is used. I had a coil of it laying around that was just the perfect length to reach from antenna to shack. So I pushed it into service. 73. AB7XX

I found a used Shakespeare Big Stick antenna and got it up into the air. Hooked up my Uniden Bearcat 980 and heard a lot of DX chatter both AM and SSB. Tried to make a few contacts but either I have some mic troubleshooting to do or 12w PEP isn't getting through. My SWR on the antenna was...

Did some great POTA activations on 10 meters. First one was pretty much Australia Oceanic QSO contacts I answered and got the park activated. Next weekend I called out CQ POTA and got 31 contacts. A mix of countries. New Zealand Venezuela and Honduras with a bunch of US contacts. The fun is...

Big A on AM and SSB. DX I will toss out Boise 521. With skip being more open I guess it is time to hook up the CB again. I have let it languish the last few years. I did get my ham license. AB7XX. Loads of fun on 10 meters lately. DX world wide!

Long use update on my purchase of this radio. It still is being used in my main shack. I had it in the corner of the garage for awhile and put in a Kenwood 722 and a Icom 5100 in the main shack for awhile. I missed the Yaesu 726R and put it back in the main shack. I did find a 2 meter amp...

I very well may be interested in this.

In the spirit of letting you know how it went I am back again with another update. I have rebuilt my feed cable. I am getting around a 1.5:1 SWR with my nano VNA and RigExpert. Antenna is at 23 ft high on temporary mast system. I can use 28 to 28.9 easily with that SWR result. Above that I...

I do have the Icom 7300. Yeah my bad. I called it a Yaesu. I do have several radios from that maker too. My first was the 450D I like it. I also have two FT-65 HT radios from Yaesu which I think are good radios.

I have a SG-230 tuner on my 6 foot fence. 2 radials along the fence in both directions. The antenna is a long wire pulled up into the tree and bent over going a little further in a inverted L shape. Total length is around 60 ish or so feet. It isn't visible for the most part except for the...