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Did you use a siloading coil? (Sorry.)

Try it out and see how it works. Remember, "long wire" generally means three or more wavelengths at the frequency being used. Not all that long for 11M, but if you're contemplating 160 meters ...

Never have completely left the shell off...BUT!... I have slid it on the coax backwards. Once. In half a century of hamming. Fortunately, it was on a jumper, but I kept it as a "remember when?" souvenir.:whistle:

1.3:1 is a good ratio; "1:3.1", not so much.

https://tinyurl.com/y57w5wd7 Back from the dead!!

Another use for drones as antenna helpers!

I went to 5th Street School (hint: "LV Blvd" wasn't around until early 1960s) and LVHS (the old one on South 7th). Walked to school, even in kindergarten, by myself, with no fear of anything, and nothing ever happened. Now, I have to think about it a couple times before I'd DRIVE down 6th, and...

Hey LC - What part of LV do you live in? I moved there in 1944 because my mom was pregnant with me. My dad worked on the UPRR just about all his life, and they both were active with what eventually became Opportunity Village. (My sister had Down Syndrome). We lived exactly one block east of...

Transparent to outgoing RF as well, I'd guess.

105mm? How 'bout a REAL gun? Like 890mm. https://tinyurl.com/y4m8gm6n

Say for example you have a voltmeter advertised as being plus or minus 10%. That has to mean "of full scale" in order to mean anything. Now, say this meter has a full-scale value of 100 volts. Ten per cent of a hundred...carry the 6... OK. With a known-good 100 volts applied, the meter can...

Goofed on the g, and the o and the t. It now says "I just down". But since you say you "got down", what are you going to do with all of those feathers?

It used to be five percent WHEN BRAND NEW. Navy required recalibration, along with slugs, every four months. Adding the PEP mod is what brought the eight percent into the picture. A Bird 43P is plus or minus eight percent on PEP measurements, and five percent on AM, CW and pretty much all...

PowerMaster has "typically" ±3% error when it leaves the factory, but how long is this typically good for once you get it and start using it? Any meter, gauge or other instrument MUST be periodically recalibrated and adjusted. The manufacturer is the one who determines how long between...

That closet rod will have come from a Douglas fir, and there's your answer. Plant a tree right where you want the mast. Water it and protect it from hard freezes. Your mast will arrive in due course. You're welcome.:whistle::rolleyes:

Be sure it's not a wire-wound resistor. No sense taking a bunch of inductive reactance into the equation.

I saw what you did there. Saw...get it...? :whistle::eek: That whistling emoji is my all time favorite.

I think you're confusing "lighting" with "lightning" (notice the extra "n" in "lightNing"?

You too, huh? :D

AVC - Automatic Volume Control AGC - Automatic Gain Control Slightly different names for the very same thing "Slow" and "Fast" just mean whether it takes a second or two to start functioning (Fast) or longer than that (Slow). The operating manual for the radio should contain this information.