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    colossal 10k vs 55 merlin

    211 You might ask about the Colossal 25K you might be trying to kid yourself but we all know thats thats 5k bird driver i have had mine up for a good while and have not had a ounce of trouble it took me longer to get it out the box and unwrapped than it did putting it together then once...
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    Has Kenwood lost its mind

    Kenwood has dropped off the edge and joined the realm of Roger Beeps and Echos Kenwood TH-9000
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    Galaxy 88 issues on SSB

    Just because a radio has a ssb knob does not mean that it can function properly on ssb and another dead ringer giveaway is : if the radio has a roger beep or echo its not a true ssb radio
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    Texas Star 667 install

    12 to 15 watts swing is all you will need anymore and your getting to see the ghost watts
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    Tornado Watch for all a Texas

    Severe Tornado Watch in Effect for all of Texas Emergency crews around the Ft.Worth and Dallas area are advising people to seek shelter at the Dallas Satdium Storm chasers predict a Touchdown is unlikely at that area
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    Loud Audio

    how can audio be any louder than 100 % modulation
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    Stryker with a TS 350HD verses an Magnum S9-175

    i have run both the s-9 and the s-3 and the s3-80 and to me and just my thoughts the receive had a very hashy sound to it
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    Stryker with a TS 350HD verses an Magnum S9-175

    yes he would be smoking if he run a 45 into a 350 smoke out the back of the box
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    Stryker with a TS 350HD verses an Magnum S9-175

    just remember a Cobra 25 or 29 with a Texas Star 250 can come out there and wipe out either of those 2 radio setups
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    900 mhz repeater

    Someone was looking out for me the Motorola guy from midland is coming up in a few days to check out the tower site going to be using 2 runs of 7/8 hardline 250 foot a run one coax will be for the 900 repeater in the West Texas area and the othr run will be for the GMRS one antenna will...
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    900 mhz repeater

    we are fixing to set up a 900 repeater not sure of the exact freq what would be a good choice of a HT and a good choice of a mobile radio both could be just monoband or hit me up with other options going up on a 400 foot tower
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    New HAM with lots of questions....

    if rag chewwing is what you want then get a dual bander and get on a local repeater and get after it or get on the southwest link i would not suggest getting a HF rig and getting on a skip talking freq then want to talk local alot want to make contacts and send qsl cards and move to the...
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    Sweet 16 VS TNT 1500

    the texas star amps claim to be AB bias but i betcha a hamburger after it warms up then its gone into class C so dont just go buy something that it says it biased a certain way now which to choose the TnT would play along better with the N2 you would see better numbers on your watt meter...
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    10M mobile antenna that is garage friendly?

    if you had a tool box you could mount a Predator 10k with a 21 inch shaft then put the flatside kit on now its not a true flatside it is vertically polarized so its still a vertical or you can just get the coil and top section and flatside kit and then measue from the top of garage to top...
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    Will this be ok Newbie Q

    even a multiband antenna is not a very good antenna all your doing is using the harmonics for each band monoband antenna would be the best but alot of folks dont have room for a antenna at each band
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    Will this be ok Newbie Q

    pretty sure it wont tune the antenna take the radio then into the tuner then into a swr meter then to the antenna then hit auto tune and see if the swr changes on the meter
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    To unlock or not unlock?

    what upsets me the most is when one guy is off freq and then another guy tunes in on him to talk to him then we have 2 people off freq and its a big mess then for everyone else and then it keeps getting worse an worse as the day goes on so leave the transmit freq alone
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    102 inch ss whip vs 7ft skipshooter

    try the test again but from the valley to the mountain top and see what you get
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    MURS

    I dont use murs but i have a gmrs repeater on a tower about 70 foot talks about 30 to 35 miles depends if i have the 10 watt repeater inline or if i pull it and turn the Super Repeater on then it really get after it my old spectra is full of the frs and gmrs and murs and its set at 40...
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    End Fire Array Dual Band Antenna setup

    is it posible to setup a mobile with dual band antennas and have them both hot the rear antenna fires first then the front antenna then fires.. and no pun intended but would it "Gain" anything