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Great job with your handiwork. There's nothing like building something that gets the job done.

Well. Whatever fancy stuff it is, all the way CCW and there is no sound on AM/FM. Same on all the way CW. Don't matter if it's called English Peas, what matters is it is kinda worthless, unless you like left-handed floaties.

Are ya'll ready for this? Squelch knob operates backward to the radios I've used for years. All the way counter clockwise is maximum Squelch. Stupid. . . perhaps the radio, maybe me.

Suddenly, my AT-6666 has no sound though the speakers on AM/FM modes. Works fine on SSB modes. No idea how that happened. Squelch knob is all the way to zero/no/nil/nada/none/no way, Jose squelch setting. Put it on a channel on SSB, audio out the speaker. Push the mode button to AM or FM, no...

Thanks, Wally

I've got a friend named Mic, but he spells his named "Mike". . .

I have a random length endfed wire antenna I run. The 9:1 transformer is mounted to my wood sided chimney. It goes from there out to a pushup pole and on ... the counterpoise just lays across the shingles. I run 100w maximum and the house don't burn down.

I don't think the inductor has to be at the very bottom.

I have always used a LC (inductor/capacitor parallel) matching network for half wave monoband antennas.

Is this what you want? http://tascbbw.com/shockwaveantennas.com.au/

I am thinking you want to make this antennaFor a monoband 1/2 wave antenna both a capacitor and an inductor.

Howdy, Mark. Should have bought a better TV. I never had any problems with my Astroplanes. Just get them in the air, and properly use a Common Mode Choke. Never bothered any electronics and made lots of contacts local and DX.

Conjugate 1a: joined together especially in pairs : COUPLED a conjugate relationship - Good! b: acting or operating as if joined - Murky 2a: having features in common but opposite or inverse in some particular - bad, bad, bad, bad... It's the 2a's that gets to me.

You did fine for me. I was only asking because many newbies, and a few old farts, find this confusing. I'm not having any issues. Just trying to get things simpler. You see, when I was learning to communicate with an audience as a young minister an older, wiser, & more experienced preacher...

I don't have a 3.1 SWR. That is hypothetical. What I do have is the inclination to see a contradiction in the idea that a lower SWR is not as good as a farther swinging meter needle, or in my case, more red lights turned on. In my experience, 50 Ohms is presented to the rig by a tuner, or...

Two slinkies. Steel. Also wire on each end of the slinkies.

Nope Yes Slinky dipole in the attic. 80m -10m. Don't know. It's hooked up xceiver>coax>tuner>coax>1:1 Xformer>450 Ohm twinlead> dipole New. Don't know. Most of the questions were hypothetical.

I had a cb and it was a front mic. I talked all over the place with it. It was solid material, too. Good hefty weight. And it had a front mic. ...then I woke up and I didn't even have a cb. I was CQing my alarm clock.

So, I just pretend that my peak forward is really not at the 3.1:1 SWR although my tuner says it is. The tuner is lying about the 3.1 but not the peak forward. If so, then maybe it's also lying about the peak forward... I tell you, you can't trust these tuners to tell a straight story.

Here's the next question: If my peak forward is at a 3.1:1 SWR, indicating a resonant system, what's the point? After all, the 3.1 SWR will cause my transmitter to fold back so severely I may as well be transmitting on a dry noodle, yes/no? Explain in simple terms; remember, some of us hail from...