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X2 on the Sirio great antennas!

I made contacts today from New Mexico to Washington - Oregon. grids-DM76, CN86, CN87 . Not too bad. One of the guys was mobile and one guy running a stainless steal whip.

I don't know if this will help but here is some info. Looks like some differences in how to measure. I think it may be short go up past 40 and see if the swr gets better. http://www.cbjunkies.com/threads/1614-hy-gain-spt-500-super-penetrator/page2

where do you get a 1:1 match?

yea of the two above I agree with Tba the bottom one. The top one looks crooked , probably the picture angle.

Andrew, I don't have ant experience with the 827 but I have a Sirio Tornado and had a chance to compare it to a Imax 2000 in same location. The Sirio was better in tx/rx and was quieter. The 827 seems to have a little better gain so I say try it! Good Luck.

Did you get it to tune up right, I saw the bottom they sent you , the last thing I would do is install that one with what you have to do to install!!

I would get my money purchase a better antenna.

In the background is my home made 6m hexbeam also

That a nice 2m Moxon HomerBB, I just recently built two 2 meter antennas. I built a halo antenna its horizontal and a portable 4 element yagi thats a combination of PVC and aluminum rod. Keep those antennas coming!! sorry the Yagi is a picture of a picture quality not great.

Funny i think a lot of people thought the new ft818 would be more like this and 10-20 watts.

Near my house if you look at 2m, 6m, and 70cm there are 90 repeaters within 25 miles and 224 within 50 miles 77 being 2m. So i guess it just is a matter of where you live as to how many repeaters there are.

Dang it i slept past the regular time unless you guys went late. 75m here last night went from s9 noise to about 30 minutes later down to s5 and signals almost doubled . Now i'm mad i didn't up and contact you guys.

Ask and it will happen someday guys. holy googly moobly :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

The repeaters in my area are pretty busy and we have a lot in the area. I have just started doing some simplex and that has been pretty busy also. Soon i will try some SSB but so far have not been able to get out and do that. Tram makes a pretty nice dual band base antenna with decent gain thats...

Great build K3ACZ, looks like about the same size box. I started to put my connections on the side. Have you used it and how long does the battery last? I need to post a picture of the inside of my box , totally forgot to do that.

Moleculo, are you talking about a solar panel? I don't have a solar panel at this time. I did do a on air test the other day. Ran the radio for 6 hours making contacts at 5, 10, 20 and 40 watts but a lot of the time was listening but did have 3 or 4 15 min qso's. starting voltage was 13.3 at...

I'll let you try it first :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:.