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My approach No indication of what you are hanging your dipole from, but trees, poles or whatever the idea is the same to make it easier to work on. I have a treed lot (Post Oaks) and I can suspend the antenna from three points. I have only shown one end. Each points has two lines. A pulley...

I think the price is at the high end of 'mid-range', but you get a lot of bang-for-$$$. If... the computer it is connected to can run the software effectively. I have toyed with the idea of a Flex radio. What is keeping me from making the purchase is the current laptop I have. It works well...

My take... Robb, You have the tuner that is going to do the heavy lifting. Depending on power levels it will match 6-3200 ohms which is a wide swing for a tuner compared to a transceiver that has a built-in tuner. One reason an external turner has an advantage over internal. For 1/3 the cost...

5 watts and stock antenna inside your car(assumption) is the mostly likely reason for intermittent beacons seen. Your soon to arrive antennas will improve the situation. On the VX8 after you beacon you should see your beacon repeated by the digipeter, but not sure what the indication will be. On...

The best part was the pronunciation of "Wouxun". Not a snowball chance in h... that I would have come anywhere close to what I heard. :-) Mike

The 1st Thank You was about 5 years ago in church near Memorial Day. Each Thank You is near and dear to the heart. Mike

Craig, I get your point and while attempts were made to see that I was awarded a Purple Heart in Viet Nam they failed. I will have 5 Purple Heart on my certificate when it arrives. From my perspective they are only a checkmark for the states I contacted and represent indirectly those...

Phil, Excellent news! I really dislike shotgun troubleshooting. Good example of logic trumps shotgun. Mike

Phil, Swapping out the 136 for the speaker/mic seems to nail the issue down to the 136. From the same location if you could do a 'cold start' for both the 136 then the speaker/mic that would be better. The 28 sec. lock could have been misleading because the GPS could have been close to...

A couple of things come into play that will take a GPS longer to lock. From last off location to next on location was a significant distance. When you did turn it on you were moving. It is possible that the rental car was of a make that had a windshield that blocks the GPS signal. This item...

Cityhawk One approach not talked about is how I addressed the issue. I have a VX3 and Icom92 that I have put a Diamond SMA to BNC adaptor on. I like the easy on/off of the antenna when I stow my radio between use. This also allows me to use a BNC to 5 way binding post adaptor on the VX3...

Check again, I don't believe you do. Add: The GPS is the latest generation so the sensitivity is very good. Sitting on the car seat it will most likely hold track. Now getting out with 5 watts to the 1st digipeter (sp?) will be a bigger issue from the seat.

My VX3 is the same. In this case the battery and cover are separate items. I placed a small square (postage stamp size) of soft foam rubber between the battery and cover. This minimized the wiggle, but not entirely. Something similarly between the battery and frame of the radio might help as...

Excellent! You do have your eye on the next test (general) don't you? :D Enjoy! 73 Mike KE5VYU

Contact the VEs that administered the test. Their names and call-signs will be on the certificate you walked out with. You can use a call-sign search to get their address. Until the FCC gets the information they don't know you exist. The information has various routes to get there with the mail...

another possibility Shift direction and offset?

Using a SMA/BNC adapter is a good idea for frequent on/off situations. The adaptor 'moleculo' commented on is the one I use. The two antennas you quoted are the same I use. I have used the three items on a VX6, VX8, Icom92AD and VX3. The adaptor makes the radios look like it came with a BNC...

Donnie, Having a good GPS lock is all you need so the algorithms knows the changes from position to position and are they above or below the speed or turn rate. AUTO timed set for 15 minutes the beacons (red light on radio) should be 15 minutes apart regardless of stationary or moving. With...

Donnie, I would have to sit down and dig thru the D710 manual to make sure I am right, but this is how I recall the Kenwood works. If AUTO is select and SMART-BEACONING is off AUTO uses the time you have selected in another menu option. Something like 3,5, 10 and 15 minutes between...

Excellent product I use with my D710A. Once attached to the back of the control head you never know its there. Completely pass-thru in both directions. Meaning that there is a data jack on the control cable side from the main radio box which has decoded GPS data from the APRS receive. The data...