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Well you can if you want your kids and wife to get sick or be mutated or have problems with their pacemakers or vision... Not to mention what it would do to your neighbors... More than 100 watts into a dipole on 60m might make your heart stop. I never saw a manufacturer make a 700 watt...

If you use a Off Center Fed Dipole antenna, this gives you the ability to communicate on more then one band with the same antenna. As an example, a 80m off center fed dipole will be resonant somewhere in the band of 75 / 80m, along with 40m and 20m and 10m and 6m and even 2 meters. Length plays...

If her antenna was such a good antenna, I wonder how long her arms were, because it wouldn't radiate very good if it is only 6' off the ground. What you want is a balanced antenna. Most other antenna's such as a G5RV is a unbalanced antenna... G5RVs etc are only resonant on their target...

Someone beat me to the punch, but to reiterate - SWR does not tell us if the antenna is resonant, it only tells us what the feed line is doing! The SWR meter in your Kenwood TS 2000 is not calibrated against anything and is not by any means accurate, nor is the Rat Shack meter... What about...

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If you check the Part 97 it says that you can take a radio from any other service and convert it to work on 10m or anywhere else as long as it cannot operate out of band after the modification, or that it cannot be easily modified to go back to the service from where it came! This means that it...

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A 10m antenna doesn't have to be very high.. 36 - 40' off the ground is plenty high enough to make some contacts. Sometimes there is advantages to using a vertical antenna instead of a dipole on 10. A dipole antenna is only about 17.6 feet long - depending upon the wire and balun you use.. Even...

Find yourself an Elmer and ask for help. There isn't much of a difference between a 10m and a 11m antenna. You didn't say which antenna you have. For a quarter wave dipole with a piece of coax cut at increments of electrical half wavelengths, you can use a simple SWR meter to check resonance...

If you are going to use CW terms, learn how to use them properly. You would never send - S E V E N T Y T H R E E ' S You would send 73. dah-dah-di-di-dit di-di-di-dah-dah It only shows a persons ignorance and makes them sound like cb'rs when they say seventy three's... If we teach just one...

Because 10 meters is not channelized and because the band is one of the larger of all of the amateur radio HF bands, you don't always hear a lot of conversations except when there is a contest, but because 65% of all of the amateurs in the USA only has a Technician class license, and because...

Ditto on spending the money on a better antenna and more power is not the solution. I hear a lot of guys out there that has crappy antenna's and big amplifiers talking to other guys with crappy antenna's and big amplifiers and the only people they can hear when they turn back to the squelch is...

Spend the $15 and buy the programming cord and download CHIRP .

Congrad's on passing your tech, now go after your general and don't stop until you get to extra. I think most everyone here has covered most everything except that I would suggest that if you were going to get a 100w HF rig that you need to get a 35a power supply. Most rigs requires at least 12a...