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Thanks for all the quick replies, much appreciated. My tuner is an MFJ-949E. It's supposed to be able to handle a random wire. It has a terminal at the back for a random wire but I've heard that there are some lengths to avoid, for instance a half wave on the band I'm operating on. I probably...

Hey guys, I need your help again. We are moving house once again. I may not be able to immediately put up an antenna where we're going but as a crazy ham, I'd still want to get on air as soon as possible. I'm thinking random wire into my tuner. 40 meters is where I want to operate in. How long...

Maybe the Chinese are planning to conquer Africa....

Nope, theres at least one thats all mode. Yaesu FT817 ssb, fm, am and has uhf/vhf and 6 meters although those last 3 arent modes

Thats a bit better than my 100 watts and a wire.... :D

I wonder what Billy runs...sometimes I get him 10db here.

I've actually worked WE6DX, Billy from San Diego on 7.177. That was with my full size dipole though. I wasn't able to join the group last night but they're saying now that propagation to N America was fair last night. Our local ragchew group hangs out at 7.173 so we can just slide up without...

I've actually been on 40 and 15 meters since I got my tech(our equivalent) which are the HF privileges for tech here. Thanks a lot guys, and yes, I would love to have you all on my log someday. :)

A year after getting my tech, I finally took my general class exams. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the results which in our neck of the woods will take a month. I'd like to pass in on the first try since exams are only once a year in our place. I hope to pass so I can operate on 20 meters. :D

Hehe yeh, I had a tensioner actually. My problem was if the branch broke and fell to the ground maybe 30 feet below. Or even if the tree fell down. This tree is a soft wood tree and is known for falling in the wind. Thanks anyway. :)

That should be interesting. :)

I made my first DX contacts on 15 meters with my full size dipole but I never heard anything so far on 10 meters. I'll keep trying though, thanks. :D

Woot! First DX qso with my short dipole. R2DA, Valery in Moscow. I got a signal report of 5/9. QRZ.com says a bit over 5,000 miles short path. Not bad at all. :D

Thanks, I lowered the apex around 6 feet from the standoff because I needed to open up the angle a bit. With the balun up near the standoff, all I could manage was around a 60 degree v angle and that didn't do too well. As it is, the apex is probably around 20 feet high with an v angle of around...

Thanks, most of the wires are guy wires. I have a twin 5 element 2 meter antenna with an inverted j pole array in the center also for 2 meters.

After 4 attempts trying to build one, I finally gave up and had somebody make one for me. My problem with the full sized one was that I had to tie one leg to a neighbor's tree and everytime the wind blows kind of hard(often), I worry about the tree branch breaking and bringing down my mast...

We've had a lot of near misses from typhoons in our area. We sustained damage where power was knocked out for days at a time. People were displaced by flooding. And even one largish earthquake. The repeater of our club is situated on top of a hospital, the rationale being that we can always have...

Depends on what you want to get out of it. I do find repeaters boring. I'm a simplex kind of guy and I used to enjoy getting out as far as I could. I can do that anymore since I live in an antenna height restricted area(straight path on a runway). As also enjoyed our local ragchews immensely...

Thanks, for the concern. Yes. I'll try a wall wart and if that doesn't work. I still have a couple terminals free on my PSU.

Hehehe yep, I actually checked prices already(I usually do before buying anything). I have the manual downloaded too but I still haven't looked at it since it'll be a while before I can get back to the place it's at. A couple of typhoons are making the boat ride to and back uncomfortable if not...