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Nice, read about all that but my issue is where the antenna is. I would have to find a way to put posts in the ground on the earth side and two on the walkway side attached to the house but I can't that as it will block the passage way. I can't put out the 4 wires like that, unless I have them...

I was wondering about that. I was thinking to "de-ground" the mount from the fence rail altogether and doing a copper rod ground straight to the mount. The radio is tuned flat across the channels and its nice and quiet and I can hear ok and I get out, but it seems to be about 1/2 of what my...

Thank you. Taught by friends help over the years and places like here. I actually bought the jeep because first I like jeeps even though not a real jeep inside its Chrysler crap but its the year before they added all the computer crap. I mainly bought it because of the roof. Never had a roof...

PHEW! LOL! Worried there for a little bit. Really working as it should now. Just using a stock Galaxy DX979 with a schottky receive diode in it tuned and aligned. Not to many on around me but S4~5 10 miles away at friends base and already got out about 25 miles today. Might do the outside ground...

OK so friend came over with his 25 amp real power supply and everything went to normal. Noise level quiet as it should be. Receive is great and getting out better then I thought. Going to be returning this piece of junk PS and purchasing a real power supply now LOL. Thanks for all the help.

Yeah, that was just a joke, hence the LOL at the end. Thank you though. I know about all that. I mentioned it because when I brought the battery in to check the PS here in my room it reminded me of a guy on a FB radio page few years back proudly posting his trickle charge car battery setup in...

Yeah thats one of the things I am hoping to not have to do. If I have to I'll get a car battery and a maint./charger, because it ran perfect on the battery LOL.

Thats similar to what I had before with the clear yellow cover but not named that. Thank you.

Here's a strange update, maybe. If you see in the pick beofre my PS was sitting on top of my disconnected Carl Built 400HD and I moved the amp away and set the PS on a preforated oven pan and receive noise went from just above S9 to 6.5. I put it back and it went up to S9 again. Leaving it back...

I will give that a try. I think I have one boxed somewhere, not sure if I cleaned that out yet. Definitely an option I will look into thank you. If it is this PS I can still send it back. If it is the PS my friend is lending me one of his until I get a real one.

Yeah he's coming over tomorrow round noon EST.

Yeah, sounded like in my vehicle crystal clear, even heard skip shooting. I just bought the PS. One of the cheap 30 amp LED Light ones from fleabay. 100s reviews say they work fine and no issues but I did buy one one before from a different guy and it was pushing 22amps and couldn't adjust. I...

So, one thing solved, not the antenna. Just hooked it up to the battery and although it died within a few seconds, receive was back to normal and even heard someone shooting skip LOL. Now for the pain in the butt trying to figure where. I would like to check this Power supply I got for noise but...

Yes I am no tech by any means but I did read about what I am doing and saw there can be issue(s) there too. I did the mount myself believing by adding the plate would give me a little more ground plane as I reading but not sure that's correct, really. I read it could be as little as 4in square...

Yes the noise drops and the meter drops to flat when I disconnect at the antenna. I do have an extra car battery but not sure how much its still charged, going to have to check that. There is really no lights or anything around the antenna. On the left side of the pic is a highway. Any line...

OK, Galaxy DX979 On a 30 amp power supply, 17ft rg8x, out to a modfied truck stake mount on a fence rail post with a 12in riser and a 102 in whip, as per pictures. SWR was a little off when I matched 1 and 40 but now exact and SWR flat throughout. People can hear me ok but seems like low...

I believe its because most the "good" transistor amps are gone right now unless you want to pay alot for one and people are trying other alternatives. I've looked at RMs and RocketBox myself. I do see there are other transistors coming out like a 2897C, I saw Carl has built an amp with them but...

Ok, so at the bench. $62.00 shipping included. "There was one blown transistor. Looks to be due to high SWR". I didn't say anything. PAID. Can't wait to get it back. Miss my amp, and alot of local fun LOL.

So I sent it in. Delivered. Waiting until it "gets to the bench".

I do agree, now. Even though I can't say how this happened and I can't say something would never have happened with the mosfet, but mosfets have been in amps for a while now and to me transistors are really out the door anymore but gave it one more shot because my Texas Star 500DX lasted 15...