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I saw a hf antenna and can’t remember the name. It’s kind of a vertical diamond shaped loop that has a coil in the center of the diamond. The diamond looked like it was built out of a 3” wide thin metal.

Funny thing is, it only hit the tx the rx is fine. Just wierd. Thanks for the replies.

Update. It’s not a simplex repeater. It is a duplex. Don’t know how well it’ll work yet but we’ll see when it cools down a bit. I did get some info for the manufacturer and it had the settings on their site. It never seemed to repeat and I figured it was broken china crap. On a gamble I pulled...

I ordered one of these and wouldn’t you know it, no book no link. No setup instructions. Anyone have the instructions?

I’m not even sure where to post this story. I’ve bitten off and ordered a poc radio. It’s a $35 4g radio like rapid radio. Uses Zello. I didn’t pay attention and I had to turn around and order a SIM card. I’ve used it in WiFi. I now have the sim installed and I’ve ran it on that in my normal...

Yeah I’d have to use a duplexer. I can’t see a way around that for any good

I want to build an uhf repeater for a job site . On the cheap of course. I’ve seen the stacked baofunks using mic/speaker cords and side by side mobiles. Anyone had any good luck experiences setting anything up?

After a few years of astrovan and s10 ignition noise I’ve located a few things that helped. Cb hf and vhf all just spring from ignition noise. Here’s what I’ve found. 89s10 a constant whooshing to a solid white noise as speed picks up in the rx while driving. It’s the cable less Speedo module...

Amazon. What Chinese stuff don’t they have. I’m gonna look at that at work today instead of working.

I was thinking of making it moron proof. For those times when I forget. But yeah I can crank it down

Anyone have a way to add an attenuator to the dx400 to make it a high drive? Yeasu runs under 100 and so does the qt80.

Look at the go-2745 by serio. And compare specs. No doohdah on that element. I dunno

Looking at a starduster, about half way up there are a couple of why they call short radials. Are they using that like a cap hat? What I always understood was the idea for proper function of a cap hat was on top of the antenna. Or better yet, what’s that mess do

You’re killing me. Hahahaha

Hahahahahahaha like it’s owner huh

I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading, building and wondering about vertical antennas. I’ve raised them and I’ve lowered them. I’ve tried 1/4, 1/2 and 5/8 wave. All things considered, it don’t matter just a whole lot really what antenna you use once you’re off the ground. On the ground or at...

Icom 718 rx is fine. Tx isn’t working. Key up and it just “thumps” repeatedly. Had a lightning strike close to me and I assume static hit me. Might’ve been some lightning I dunno. Radio was off but antenna was hooked up. Any ideas

After lightening got my archer .64 I took to rebuilding an original avanti Astroplane I had been given a while back. Took it all apart cleaned up the joints replaced the connection wire from the so239 to the driven sleeve and drilled out the snapped bolt from the top and rethreaded it. Drug it...

Does it matter if I isolate the mast from the tower? I’m at 50’ to the bottom of the skirt on a tower. Also wouldn’t I need a choke at the same place it isolated from the tower? Isn’t that like 9’? But just how much difference does it make if any