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Very impressive! I do a lot of mobile HF myself being a truck driver and gone from home a lot. My set is rather simple but effective. My only secret weapon is replacing the stock screwdriver antenna whip when I'm parked with a telescoping 17ft whip for increased efficiency from 20 meters down...

Consider the oil can dummy load for high power and longer key ups. That's what I use. You can make it yourself or get the MFJ-250x and fill it either with transformer oil which is slightly better and costs a bit more or fill it with mineral oil that you can readily buy at Walgreens, CVS, etc.

Another example of an Oxymoron? Jumbo shrimp Pretty ugly Near miss Bittersweet Cold as hell Alone together etc… Now a Solid state tube?

Check to see if MFJ power reading is set for Peak. It sounds like you may have it on Average power reading.

Nice! Looks to be more expensive than what it really is.

Older thread here, I tried sky blue thinking it would blend into the sky, it doesn't. Black sticks out even worse. Gray is a neutral shade and work the best.

Prospero ano Nuevo from New Mexico… 73 and good health and DX to all!

RG 142 is some quality coax but it's designed for very high frequencies up into the gigahertz ranges. It is 50 ohm so it can work for your mobile antenna. It sounds like you'll be using a roof mount antenna. For CB frequencies, RG8x is the more popular coax for mobile use. It's a bit...

Ok, I watched some YouTube videos on FT8CN. It does require a portable radio or your KK2 to interface with. This will work for portable operations like POTA,SOTA, etc. As for true remote operation to your home station which I was looking for, There would have to be a dedicated FT8 remote...

Interesting! added words? Your word for word quote that I was questioning was this, You wrote: "you need a PC/Tablet/Phone to decode and transmit the signal" I quoted you as: " you need a PC, phone, tablet to decode and TX the signal " The only difference is I used comas and TX instead of...

Yes, with a computer. But you said " you need a PC, phone, tablet to decode and TX the signal " How do you do it especially TX with just a PHONE and TABLET?

How do you TX with a Tablet / Phone, Use Teamviewer?

Better antenna

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Do it! It's the MFJ-1979. It sells for $70.00 It collapses down to 27 inches so it easily stows away in a car and has a typical 3/8x 24 end thread that's used on mobile antenna studs.

The longer the better! Try a 17ft whip when your stationary (obviously). it'll really increase the efficiency. That'll make up some gain for not being able to run an amp. On 20m (and above) you'll have to collapse it some because it's already a 1/4 wavelength on 20m.

Inexpensive for a screwdriver antenna. However, any small screwdriver antenna that covers down to 80m is always going to be extremely lossy. Of course any 80m mobile antenna is lossy but the larger screwdriver antennas do have an ERP on 80m typically around 3-5 watts where a small antenna...

Shack pics would be nice to go with these posts! My shack: Kenwood TS890S Kenwood TS590SG(used as a sub receiver for TS890) Icom IC-7000 President HR2600 Galaxy 979 Expert 1.3k amplifier RM Italy KL7505 amplifier AEA R-84 Ribbon mic Kenwood MC-60 mic Icom SM-30 mic Heil GM 4 mic Turner +2...

Not exactly, gold is and always has been real world tangible wealth. Cash is paper and when it hits the fan, will still be nothing more than paper.

Good antenna ( referring to the 96") which I haven't seen in years. Only problem is no fine tuning option other than cut it down some.