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If you put vertical elements on the mast of your current beam, you should take off the 5/8 vertical as you won't need it. Remember, it's the feedpoint height of the vertical antenna (and all antennas) that matters not the overall height of the antenna. You'll have both a 4 element horizontal and...

Those are made in the Philippines not France. Those were the good President radio models during that decade. This one was a version exported to sold in France.

Why it worked before is a mystery. I missed the part where you said you have a tuner. Strange why your power level would differ between the 2 bands. Most external tuners have enough tuning range to cover up to an un-tuned SWR of 3:1 or even higher. What brand and model tuner do you have, Is...

The Anytone Q6666 Pro has a big heat sink too. It's a tight fit just to put the coax connector on/off much less tighten it. These are small footprint radio's so the heat sink size maybe appropriate but maybe it can be aligned better and not in the way. I'm OK with the display but I can see...

You maybe onto something there. Every Galaxy I had on SSB drifted like a sailboat on the open ocean. The 2950 RCI's were better.

On thru the hole components like caps on older radio's I find just using a simple solder wick and a 40 watt solder iron works good. Those solder suckers have their place and I occasionally used them too.

Nice! I was expecting to see Kenwood replace the mighty 590 with a mid level price radio to compete with the Icom 7300 and the Yaesu FTDX10. Nothing wrong with the TS590SG but it's been out for years. The current trend is SDR or SDR hybrids with color screens which makes the 590 look...

Sounds like you guys had a good time there! Any new radio's unveiled from the big 3 or other interesting products you saw?

I have the Icom-7000 which predates the 7100 so I can't say all the power settings are the same. On my 7000, the power settings are global for HF 160-10m but 6m has it's own independent power setting as does 2m and 440. If I tune to 11m it stays the same as the HF settings. I assume your 7100...

Sounds like that shop took care of you. He's been good with me and some others who also mentioned him on this thread. Always good to get the radio back!

I'm surprised by the your turn around opinion on these. I still use them both in the shack and mobile with little to no failures any more. I have multiple power pole rig runners and it makes the most convenient way to run power to all my 12v devices. I also use the larger 350 amp versions for...

Your biggest problem is what SP5IT noted, your audio quality is going to suffer because speaker outs are rated in watts and headphone jacks are in milli-watts so you need some attenuation. Here is a good work around box that will let you select the radio speaker output to go to both an external...

Here's some good reading on different types of chokes. https://www.dj0ip.de/rf-cmc-chokes/different-kinds-of-chokes/

I just realized I only use the single core choke BALUN and not the dual core on my beam antenna. While the dual core in theory can have a much higher choking impedance, I recalled reading different viewpoints about if they really do in practice and some suggest these types can actually work...

Toroid, Be sure to by the correct Mix value for the toroid ring. Mix 31 is good for all HF frequencies from 1-300 Mhz while Mix 43 is rated at 25-300 Mhz. Either one for CB band only. If you want the a ready made choke balun this one here is what I use. The Dual core choke balun offering the...

I once had the LDG AT-1000. They do tune well but the only compliant I had was the relays made some of the loudest clicks during tuning. The bigger box of the 1000 watt unit seem to amplify it more. Of course all auto-tuners are noisy, just some are worse than others. I still eyeball the big...

Interesting setup and some good tips, I do a lot of remote operating myself so I would like to share my experiences and what I use. First, I'm surprised that Elecraft previously didn't have a remote server software program for their radio's. I have the KAT500 tuner and I use that for both...

Being out of warranty you free to send it anywhere. I use this guy in the link below. I used him a couple times and he's done me right. I had a mobile HF amp that I thought I blew, turned out it was an internal fuse I didn't bother to open up and check. He could have easily taken advantage of...

How did you mount the base of the holder to the dash? I'm looking to mount mine in my little truck soon so I'm looking into different mounting options. I wouldn't trust a suction cup or most double stick tape cause that radio head looks heavy.

So what was the point to this thread? Another I'm the best CB tech with no real technical training but I can can tweak and peak and solder parts better than anyone? If the OP can design and build a radio and improve on the design where it's not necessary to do all those mods many users just...