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I made a little choke by turning a 8" loop with 5 turns with the coax at the antenna feed point which helped my situation.

It had a little work don to it. But sounds clean.

I'm using a Texas Star 350HD, it's a 1 x 2, AB biased for SB use. It's good with a 30 amp power supply. It gets me out there during skip!

Seams Timmy is just a parts changer, anything out of the ordinary he is lost!

Ohhh! I ment barefoot! lol

Great unit for legal limit operations! Been using with my IC-7000 for years now.

5/8 wave antenna worked the best for me with a good ground plane to get nice gain, if space is limited a good 1/2 wave will do and you don't need a ground plane but gain will be less.

I only heard of this happening if there was a ground loop or it can be a bad power supply or cable. Make sure none of your cables are bunched together making round coils then to test try to remove ground pin from A/C plug using those adapter plugs. Make sure your antenna is grounded with a...

You will learn soon enough everything affects SWR. Experimenting is half the fun. If you know the exact frequency or channel you like to operate cut the dipole for the lowest SWR. All other channels will have to compromise, the thicker the wire the broader the bandwidth. An antenna tuner will...

I have been using a dipole for over 40 years up in my attic, works great!

Only antenna that works in my attic in an inverted "V" dipole, had no luck with firesticks or beams.

Lots of them out there, check ebay, Amazon, HRO etc

Been using them for a few years now and I added a large 4M cap as a filter and no problems. I got it from a auto stereo shop.

On the 980, shouldn't the first step be to check the bias voltage on the finals, should be around 3.8 volts. Then go on from there. Try to get a $5 radio from a garage sale and practice on that first. Also watch a lot of YouTube videos from different people to get a feel for the 980. Good luck!

Great Job, Happy DXing.

I coiled my extra cable at the base of the antenna, making around 8 turns with a 10" diameter and that seemed to do the job.

I have been using the original K40 since the 70's, the newer K40 bases and the replacement assemblies are a clear plastic (I guess to see the cap???). Not as strong as the older ones, so if gets dropped or banged the plastic can crack.

You might think it was a new radio, it could have been a return!!! If you plan on holding onto it, get the service manual and start with the align steps.

He only deals through Facebook I heard.

Try to bump caps up to 16 volt and a higher temperature around 105 degrees.