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Good timing! Beg, barrow or steal a radio that covers 10m and put up a modest wire antenna, nothing fancy. The ARRL 10 Meter contest is coming up. "Second full weekend of December. Starts 0000 UTC Saturday; runs through 2359 UTC Sunday (December 10 – 11, 2011)." Listening will give...

Page 84, but not what I would call an equalizer. Bandwidth select and I believe you can change the bandwidth edges for each of the three selections.

Search QTH.COM. There is a guy that sells a display for the 7000. It might work for what you want. Mike

Section 3 BASIC OPERATION, Page 25

Got the Green Light Labs - GPS710. Works well, transparent installation to normal operation. What you don't see in the description is there is a data out jack for the recovered APRS data packets (waypoints). You can send this to a laptop or GPS with display. I tried it with my Garmin GPSmap60C...

TIP- On the A and B squelch and volume knob there is a small rectangle in the plastic. It is a visual indicator for knob position, but Kenwood failed to color the indicator. I used white nail polish and a toothpick to fill it in. Easy to see at a quick glance what position they are turned to...

My Experience As both the TS2000 and IC-7000 have been mentioned I can add some details. I started with the TS2000. Very little of the operation requires you to go down menus to select or change something. It is dual receive which is nice to listen on 10m and 2m or 70cm. DSP is at the audio...

Ray, I included a link that has a good online catalog. Price is not the best, but the information is good and it is easy to compare radios. Yaesu has good entry level radios. FT250 is a good 2m, but the FT60 is 2m/70cm which is better. Several in the Red Cross group I work with have the...

Moose, Glad to hear you found the issue and resolved it. Just a couple of minor points. Coiled coax is not so bad. Some antenna's could use a balun (ugly) to keep common mode RF off the braid, but they are installed at the base of the antenna. At VHF an easier to apply choke is a clamp...

E...T...R... I think both examples are good. The type of capacitor in question have mounting brackets to hold the capacitor in place and screw terminal for connection, either 4-40 or 6-32 threads on the opposite end. Good place to securely mount the parts associated with the capacitor. You...

Without experience using the RatShack meter in a good configuration its hard to tell at this point what it is telling you. Even in a good configuration the results may be meaningless. Best action is find a meter for that frequency range and see what you have. Range of only a hundred feet...

??? Implication is that the data grab is wireless, but what I see is the "high tech device" plugged into a cellphone. Is the grab wireless or wired? If it's wireless how do they know which phone in the area are they looking at and why would a device like that need a cellphone to act as a front...

KD0MUM, Like others have said, "stick with it". It will get easier. A Yaesu FT-60R is a good basic radio that others I know have gotten and like. Dual band and single band receive, but I think it has a 'watch' function that will switch over to another frequency to listen then back to the...

Channel 79, you might ask them the purpose or how used. There are a lot of typical 2m duplex channels and I wonder what they are thinking.

Garrett, There might be a typo someplace. I have never seen a span that large between input and output frequency. Not saying it's not true, just never has seen it. In the 2m band depending on the repeater output frequency the shift can be + or -. In the radio each band will have an offset...

From the current manual from their webpage, top of page 16 will explain the steps to change size.

Good for me Diamond DL30A Fits my needs and expectation. I think MFJ makes one that looks like it. Air cooled with fins, pocket sized. Not clear in most on-line adds what the power handling is. From the included Japanese/English insert. 15W Continuous 20W 5min. on/ 5min. off 50W...

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I use a Diamond SX40C. Cross Needle SWR 144-470 MHz 30/300W range UHF connectors No complainants. Mike

On a Kenwood D710 I extended the mic cable using a 1 meter Cat cable without issue. Other have reported noise pickup for their efforts, but for the most part no factual data to support. So... the continuity from beginning to end of the cable is maintained so that whatever is on pin 1 at one end...