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Is Hopper building for Tony? Looks like his basement and builds. Admit I haven't been there since 2004.

I passed the nickel.

He's still around. Putting up a new tower and just picked up a Davemade transmitter,

(SSB) Antarctica and multi (SSB), AM Australia from NJ. I found them!!

i'll have to blow the dust off the QSL cards...where are they??

I think you got the right attitude. Too many ducks and super hams..Start small, ask questions. Your not reinventing the wheel. I can't tell you ham many "experts" said it wasn't possible to key north of 20kw in a mobile back in the '90's.

Not exactly, I know a few who are like me. Family,work, chores..no time for all those bands right now..it's a selfish hobby. Passed my general in '86. Your right..80am is addiction. Radio is my drug of choice..That was fun when I was single...I'ld be unemployed and divorced if I every put up a...

I regularly talk from my house (south of Littlerock ca) to north Bakersfield with any issue (5/8 wave). Some knife edge down around Disneyland to the south. 6 element on the Flat side to Santa Maria,Ca a few times..around 140 miles...hit or miss. Back in da day back east in the mobile, Belmar...

All vans behave like tha, if your running one antenna. The sweet spot is right near the back edge every time.

Good luck with that!

Parallel some Astrons. These chicom boxes don't hold the smoke with unregulated power supplies. Yea..it',ll cost you. But an Astron is forever.

Option 2 is the interesting one. Never had time to try it. One radio..so the exact same freq.. 2 identical pieces of coax at the same length. 2 identical amplifiers tuned the same. 2 of the same beams, one vert and one horizontal. What could go wrong,?? Honestly it seems like it should...

Shockwave 5/8.

I have no science to back me..but everyone I know who has tried CP has got their butt kicked on the bowl. Yagi always wins. But simultaneously xmitting on both vertical and horizontal with the same radio...but different amps. Hmm.

A good amp builder can explain complex ideas to an idiot like me...in a way even I can understand. Doesn't mean I can build it..

They are quite easy to build.

3 phase http://www.extremecb.com/2_250.htm

If I had to choose...the external. But lengthen or shorten your antenna,. That should give you an idea which ones correct.

On channel 20 they'll be identical.

Just a 3 phase step up xfmr.