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I've been crimping BNC's onto RG58 for years and never had any problem with them failing. These are used on VHF taxi radio's TXing 25w. Can't recommend a manufacturer, but I would definitely go for a ratchet type crimper, makes life much easier.

Booty, I thought you were the guy that was good at digging up the info from the old threads :wink: http://www.worldwidedx.com/cb-antennas/48415-ugly-balun.html You are reading it correctly, for CB it's just the very bottom bar on the graph you need to look at, and it shows 5 turns...

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I've never used the 857, so I can't make any direct comparisons. A couple of locals here use the 857, and they sound great, they don't seem to have any complaints. I love my MKIIG, it's true home is in the mobile where it is easy to use, has a nice big display and the separation kit makes for...

I use AzMap, it does everything you want it to, and it's free :) AzMap Home Page Click on the top link : For information and downloading of AZMap, a Great Circle Map generator for the PC, CLICK HERE. Scroll down to the bottom of the next page and click the download link.

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lol, I think it's refering to the "rubber duck" antenna you would usually use on an HT

Your bang on Doc, in this case the size of that pond makes no difference at all, it's the same story over here. good luck with that, most of the tuners I've seen have a 300W power rating, and they aren't what I would call "cheap". If your amp does more than 300W then you have to jump up to...

I've also homebrewed a 5/8ths wave, and I went out of my way to make the radials a 1/4 wave long. A guy whom I respect, and who knows his antenna theory, suggested to me that 8 1/8 wave radials (like on the sirio 827) actually work better, and will give a lower angle of radiation from the...

biferi, I'm no expert in propagation, but I think your getting confused with terminology. HF is High frequency, Shortwave band, or whatever you want to call it. HF signals can get from one antenna to another by different methods. Groundwave is where the signal kind of hugs the...

If your tearing stuff up like you say Robb then anything is worth a shot, especially if it is as cheap as just making a few coils out of your coax. I read somewhere that you need a minimum of 10x the antenna impedance for a choke to be effective, so for a 50 ohm antenna, you would need 500 ohms...

the following is just "the way I see things", I've done no testing, just reading. The "ugly balun" or coax choke is just a way to reduce CMC's. It is not a balun, and I agree, if you have no CMC's, it is pointless to add one to your antenna system. Baluns can be designed so they can...

turn the SSB power back up until it's stable again and back off the mic gain when using SSB?

I didn't think of that, lol. I have only ever used the software on HF antenna's. Carry on, :whistle:

I'm certainly no expert with EZNEC, but I have been playing around with the demo version of the software that is free to download for a couple of months now. It is not as EZ to use as the name suggests, but I have modeled various dipoles, quads and yagi's and been able to achieve the results...

I think you answered your own question there. If you can use the 102 on your pickup then use it, you won't find anything that will beat it. If you really want to go for a smaller antenna then the suggestions already made are what you should go for. IMO though, the 10K's I have seen are not much...

I got a couple into Argentina, a couple more into Venezuela, one into Aruba and heard a few more caribbean islands aswell. All on 11M. Hearing some sporadic stateside on .025 from time to time, but very unstable. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for working some stateside before the winter skip...

I have a friend that uses one for 11M only and he's quite happy with it. I've compared the schematics to the KL-500 and they are almost identical. The 501 has some LED's to show power output level and an option to use remote keying from your rigs acc socket, these are the only differences I can...

hahahaha, never seen that before, really made me chuckle :lol::lol:

Hey Mark, In the past I've always used Yaesu's, but as base only, when I wanted a truly mobile radio that I could also use at home I went for the 706MKIIG, and I wasn't disappointed. Great radio and I couldn't recommend it enough. It takes about 2-3 minutes for me to remove it from the car...