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  1. J

    Looking for Alps 173N Pot for President AX14

    Looking for Alps 173N Pot for President AX14 or a good replacement. I have an old AX14 with AMC removed has TX but no RX terminal board on the Alps is cracked and broke when I was removing it. I would like to replace it. Alps 173N 50 KB pot Thanks
  2. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    Got the new antenna today swr was slightly better but still not good the whip was much shorter had 1.1 on 40 and 2.2 on 1. with stinger all the way down I trimmed about 1/8: off swr seemed to go up slightly across the band. It was getting dark so I gave up for the day.
  3. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    5 without the amp stinger fully down 4.5 with no amp stinger extended I did receive a call from Skipshooter today they are sending me a new one with more adjustment.
  4. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    meter is good for 200 watts skipshooter rated for 5000 watts I zeroed the meter for the frequency didn't have to change for power level. I was ablet to get the tram to 1.3 across the board fairly quickly tram says 1.3 is the best that antenna will do
  5. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    I had a piece of flat iron just above the taillight. I tried a long whip off of an old wilson mag mount just for the hell of it 10.0 swr. I did notice dust coming out of the hole in the top of the glass whip looks like maybe corrosion in there I tried to clean it out put it back on the...
  6. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    Jeep has plastic bumpers its a 2003 Grand Cherokee I could make use a bracket to come out above the rear tail light. I originally had it there thought i didn't have enough ground plane. The tram seems to work the skip shooter did seem to have more receive.
  7. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    Yes or at least very close to it. I will get an exact measurement when I get home.
  8. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    skip shooter stinger all the way down with no amp was a little over 5 swr stinger full extended no amp was 4.5 across the band
  9. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    I was measuring SWR with a MFJ872
  10. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    I would but I have a stud in my roof on a jeep with a 4" lift it's way to high. I installed a Tram 3700 today swr1.3 barefoot 2.0 with KL203. Its working but not a big fan of the KL203 so far. FM doesn't work very good and the AM limiter in the walker3 doesn't help things.
  11. J

    Help with skipshooter double barrel

    I recently installed a skip shooter double barrel on a 2003 Jeep grand Cherokee and my swr is around4.0 -4.5. My setup is a president Walker 3 and a KL20. 3' of RG8X to the kl203 then 18' to a firestick K-4DD roof mount stud mounted 18" from the hatch then the 38" skipshooter double barrel...
  12. J

    President Ronald power levels?

    Thanks I would love to compare to what mine are set at I have adjusted AM settings radio sounds good try to check FM deviation with a tinySA I need more preactice
  13. J

    President Ronald power levels?

    I have a used president Ronald seems to key 10W dead key and swings to a little over 20W on am FM seems to be around 30w . I checked this with a MFJ-872. I would like to check my power level settings in the service menu against factory default anyone know what they are, I understand they...
  14. J

    KL-203 question

    I was considering this procomm wire RG8X or should I look for belden? the 102" whip is mounted on a truck tool box on the driver side no spring seemed to work very well with the Connex 4400hp. The local shop set the swr for me, I rember him saying it was very good he did not trim anything. I...
  15. J

    KL-203 question

    Feeding the amps with president Bills I am going to turn them down the truck will have 102" stainless whip the Jeep will have a double barrel skip shooter. Not sure idf I should get rg8x, rg58? Also red some of the Chinese cables on amazon are not very good any recommendations on brands...
  16. J

    KL-203 question

    I think I am going to mount it where I can flip the switch from the under the dash probably use 12 gauge wire amp draws 10amps my next question is what antenna cable should I use with this one setup is in a jeep and only a few inches will be exposed the other in a truck and most of the cable...
  17. J

    KL-203 question

    I am looking to hook up KL-203 in 2 of my cars, I may mount them under the dash but the switches would be hard to access. Does the amp need to be turned off when not in use?
  18. J

    Looking to buy compact 10 meter

    I found a president ronald for $115 so I am leaning that route with the new york up antenna for mobile I may later get a quad6 for a base, in the future I would like to vacation in the western US so the quad 6 in camper would be nice. I like the look of the richard so that might be a...
  19. J

    Looking to buy compact 10 meter

    sorry the link did not attach its on there now
  20. J

    Looking to buy compact 10 meter

    I am looking to run this antenna, I know its not the best but want something low profile and low wind drag, mostly looking to talk locally on innerbelt highways for my daily commute. Any idea how this will pair with at6666 or the other radios...