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Well I for one will thank you for that info. I have a Uniden 2830 that I don't use any more, but it has exactly the same fault, although intermittently. Strangely it only happens if the radio has been on long enough to warm up, then switched off and switched back on, then the RX meter will go...

Full (advanced) UK licence, not really much of a contester but I'd call into a net if someone sets one up. I used to listen to a US net on 14.240 years ago, not heard it for a long time now though :(

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If I was buying it for myself I would go with the 827 every time, not actually tried either the imax or the 827 myself, but I did put up an 827 for somebody a few months ago and I was quite impressed with the build quality. I have read so many reviews on UK forums and comparisons between the 827...

When I built my quad I found this page very usefull... The Ultimate Guide to 11 Meter CB Antennas To be honest Chatter building an antenna like this is not very hard to do. The main thing is to follow the measurements as accurately as you can, and the antenna should be working very close...

For years and years the main manufacturer of these type of model planes in the UK was/is called Airfix, I built a few as a kid, but I was never any good at painting them :( Thought some of you might find this video interesting. This is just a trailer, but I watched the show on TV a couple of...

The Wilsons work just as well but no better than a 4000, they just cost more. The only way you will improve is to get a true 1/4 wave whip that has no loading coil, but you can't drive around with one on the car unless you want to buy a triple mag mount or a puck mount or similar, and there is...

Cheers George/Doc, I don't have access to an analyser, so there is indeed a lot of guess work going on here. I don't have masses of 75 ohm coax, I do have some good quality RG59, but only a couple of metres of it, I'm sure I have some cheap TV coax I can experiment with to see if it works...

I'm really suprised none of you have any opinions on this :blink:

one of my friends had a mini van he wanted to use a CB in. He bought a brand new CB antenna with a mag mount, and no matter what he tried he couldn't get the antenna to tune. Eventually we took the antenna off and put it on another vehicle, swr was 1.2:1 with no adjustments, put it back on the...

Doc, I should have been a bit clearer, after adding the director, with the 75 ohm transformer swr was 5:1, trimming away at that 75 ohm coax only reduced swr to 3:1, removing the 75 ohm completely and feeding directly with 50 ohm coax gives me the 2:1 swr. As I can't tune the antenna with...

I have used a homemade 2 ele quad for a few years now, fed with a commercial 1:1 balun and a 1/4 wave of 75 ohm coax, which has worked very well. I wanted a little more gain, so last week I extended the boom and added a dipole for a director, so now I have a Quagi (cute name huh). Problem being...

I think you want one of these.... Dipole centrepiece

Yup, thats what I do, and have been doing it for 10 years, never run into any problems yet.... however, I do pull the coax tight and close the door on it, which stops it from moving around

Bob, I've been pricing up at this place for a project I've got in mind.. Aluminium Warehouse Prices don't seem too bad, but it's the £15 +vat on every order that is the killer :( You'd have to need a boatload of alli to make it worthwhile. Another place you could try is Aluminium...

The antenna you linked to here looks like an FM broadcast antenna, and will be useless for SW listening. If you want to listen to HF you need a big antenna, no real way around that. Wambulance is bang on the money though, the HF bands come live after dark, and I would LOVE to be in a rural area...

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As was said on your other thread, having the antenna outside will beat having it inside, but an indoor antenna is better than none at all. Having some of the antenna outside, and the rest inside, will be better than having it all inside, but not as good as having it all outside. In an ideal...

Well I've always had Yeasu's in the past, but as I was working for an Icom dealer and I got word of a 706MKIIG going cheap, this was the display radio that was on show at all the Hamfests/Amateur radio rallies in the UK. It had never been used, just powered up occaisionally and put on display...

both sound well, work well, get good reviews..... just a shame they are both so damn ugly :headbang or is that just me?