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QSO with BJ a few times in his mobile on 75 meters, lumped a good signal down here to Florida. Back when he drove to work in the mornings,

KIDD just apply yourself and you will get there. it is a lot of fun, and some disappointment as well but overall well worth the effort to get the privilege's of working the hf bands

Hey KIDD you going to enjoy that FT1000MP mkV I am using one here but I do put a fan blowing on the fins, helps keep it cooler. so many features in that rig take a month of reading the manual get used to all the functions.

flip that switch!!!!!

Nice to see there is still home brewing and build your own. Looks good, Even have the RF choke at feed point, Great job.(y)

https://www.eham.net/articles/30413 cuts like regular wire

https://thewireman.com/ Copper clad steel wire, 16g and 18g,, best stuff I ever used on my quad antennas.

Hurricane predicted to hit on 2nd, going have my antennas lowered

I have had a couple of the older radios doing that, it was the metal pots corroded, one time de oxit fixed it, other time had to replace the pot.

Should be a 6AQ5 tube for keying, time to check voltages and caps see which one gave up the ghost

Now you are talking Really enjoy seeing home brewing still being done. Good job on sticking with it and fantastic on the contacts.(y)(y)(y)(y)

Dipole is a balanced antenna, coax is unbalancd transmission line,,thus the BALUN balanced to unbalanced. They do help reduce CMC on the coax and forces equal current to each leg of the dipole. I have used the baluns, and have built some dipoles with out baluns. I cant tell the difference as...

N3ZI has a kit or used to have one for encoder, programmable for whatever IF freq you needed, always thought about putting one in an old Siltronix just for the heck of it, never got around to doing it. https://www.pongrance.com/DDS2018.html

Morning Trucker Kevin. Set up looks basically like the one BJ posted in the tower picture in a previous post. The stand off with the 40/80 meter dipoles on it. If you going get serious about wires, investing in a few 1:1 current baluns will help tremendously, in building and installing. I am...

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I had one, and as long as it is aligned correctly it works fine, but make sure the voltage on the finals are adjusted correctly. It is a good stable SSB radio but it does not have the booming AM audio It receives well. If you tend to get long winded as Mike said it does and will get warm. I...

I buy a piece of uni strut at home depot or lowes, you will find it in the electrical section. It has holes in it and U clamps fit perfect. Cut it so about 3 feet sticks out the side of the tower I U clamp it to my tower, on the end of the uni strut I U clamp a pulley, use Dacron rope and pull...

Bin you saying you are an unidentified species?:whistle::whistle: Oh by the way that old Kenwood 2 meter all mode I got from you is in daily service. I donated it to a disabled ham and he is really enjoying using it.(y)

Probably look like pictures of bigfoot out of focus and blurry.