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The original post is from 2011, so it is a wee bit more than a year old LOL! Paging Doffo: We need your "rise from your grave" gif stat!!!

Wild conditions tonight on the radio! Short skip coming in from all directions. Had a long QSO with a station only a couple hundred miles from me across the Coast Mountain range............. Also made some Alberta, Saskatchewan, & Manitoba contacts an hour or so ago on 36 & 37. Still coming...

Overcast and raining out here on the west coast. :cautious:

The Anytone radios have very very good receive. The only old school radio I have that comes close to my 5555N2 is my side mic Cobra 148GTL from 1994. In fact the Cobra has slightly tighter sideband filters, but in every other way the Anytone's are spectacular on receive and it makes many older...

Megawatt supplies can be stacked. I use a 35Amp that is RF quiet and has run now for several years 24/7 with no problems. Two of those stacked would give you 70 amps, and three stacked would give you over 100 Amps at 14 volts DC.

Wish we could have had a longer QSO! Your signal was making it no problem, but I had a lot of QRM from other stations that were making it a bit rough...... 73's!

Strange conditions here today. This morning I had very little coming in except 886 "Little Kiwi" from the North Island of New Zealand on 38LSB. He was booming in and we had a good QSO. Usually in the morning we get Europe and the East coast and Australia & NZ don't appear until late...

These days $3,000 isn't really all that much, I know plenty of people paying that much in rent every month. As well, such electronic instruments should always be thought of as investments and not just purchases. Just a few jobs using that equipment and it will have paid for itself.

What Crawdad said! It always makes me very happy to see other people taking the plunge and building their own antennas! There's no greater satisfaction than making contact with an antenna you built yourself, whether that's ten miles on MURS or ten thousand miles on 20 meters! Well done.

Woah! Just when you think you've heard it all........... That is complete insanity. So the entire ground for the amp is just the common foil on the board & the flanges of the SO-239's??? Please tell me the heatsink is metal and not plastic LOL! It also must be hideously unstable. Walk near...

Must just be nobody on there. 11 meters has been open darn near worldwide now for weeks. I haven't had a day without skip since the summer doldrums ended.

No. You would need a much more accurate SWR/Peak reading watt meter....Dosy is entry level and not known for accuracy. You would also need a good multimeter, a dummy load, and possibly a basic signal generator as well as a set of plastic alignment tools....metal will shatter the ferrite cores...

Great DX conditions every day now for a couple of weeks. Been busy working but finding enough time here and there to get on the radio. Really enjoying 26.805 FM these days.....pretty cool being able to talk to a lot of the same folks nearly every day, at least until conditions shift around...

LOL! :LOL::LOL: That's funny!

Oh cool! That's great that we connected. I made quite a few WWDX contacts during that 16LSB initiative.......... Hope we can connect again on the airwaves soon!

Personal here is Sean! And your most welcome.......

Any antenna less than 3 feet is not going to work very well, for the simple reason that 1/4 wave at 27 MHz is over 8 feet! So anything less than that is a compromise. That said, I use a 3 foot firestik on a fender mount on my Toyota SUV and it works well enough that I can talk back to my base...

Very easy to figure out if you have a multimeter, an unmolested RS mike with the original connector and the Turner SSK. You will of course need to disassemble both mics enough that you can reach both ends of the wires with the multimeter probes. You are correct that Red is Transmit. Black is...

Great contact with another WWDX member today......45 North Florida booming in on 27.405 LSB. Always nice to meet other forum folks on the air! Also chatted with lots of people on 26.805FM including briefly with 030 in the south of Ireland again. A fine radio day all around!

Money & time don't seem to be an obstacle to 333. He drinks all day and night and still has funds left over to fix his amp when he blows it up. He runs a giant beam antenna too.......supposedly his ERP off the end of the beam is close to 3000 watts. At least that's what I hear from other folks...