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What is it? Non existent on horizontal

Not radio. Kinda radio. Anyway simpleptt.com has 3 year SIM cards for $55 after shipping.

Anyone play with a horz Omni loop and gain anything? Right now I’m using a horz delta and a Astro plane vertical on different radios. I notice I hear less beacon rolling atmosphere crap on the delta over the astroplane. But what advantage would I really gain over building a Omni 10m loop? Edit...

Anyone compare the luiron 310 ai against another nrc like what the qt80 has in it? How’s it compare? Better or worse? Driving through town is a bear anymore. And highway headlight noise sucks. The qt80 nrc does good but I wonder

My qt40 works great. As well as you’d want. Until you look at the rf meter. Mic gain is up in the menu. All the knobs are all the way up. If I whistle I hit 40w but talking I hover around 8-10 if I’m loud. The tx reports are great as far as quality goes. How/where can I crank the audio up...

I asked ChatGPT to build a high gain Omni horizontal 2 meter antenna. Here’s what I got. Below is a detailed engineering-style construction blueprint for a 4-element stacked 2-meter halo array (144–148 MHz) commonly used by weak-signal operators for SSB, meteor scatter, and aircraft scatter...

Software shows it’ll go to 24.7. After the jumper swap it only hits 25.375. Will it do 12m or no??

Is l2 the noise blanker adjustment and if not where the heck is it

Any recommended icom repair shops? Ic718 crapped.

Anyone have any idea on max usable length of cat 5 for remote mounting the face? The separation kit is 16’ but I need more. I had a roll 100’ long and tried it. Rx was fine. Tx was picking up all sorts of crap and making the wattage out like it had a tone. Works fine with the 16 that was in the...

I’m really wanting to ditch 11 meter. I’ve got a alinco hf and a tarheel. But I dunno that’s a whole thing. I had it set up before but didn’t use it much. Not enough to really see before the car broke down. In central Arkansas what would my local coverage look like in a mobile on 40 if I was...

I use a 80m delta horizontal loop. Works great. A guy i talk to has given me some info to change it to a 160-6 instead of a 80-6 loop. Claims it improves range and extends frequency by adding a loop under the existing loop and tying it together. In the same footprint. Same balun. Same choke...

I built a dipole for kicks. So much static. It’s vertical. Anyway, someone explain the whole dc grounded shunting at the elements to me like I’m 5. I assume that might be part of the issue.

Anyone have a list of plots for 10m at various heights? Was wanting to see the different graphs from the low to high heights. Thanks

Sirio tornado 5/8. It has an external coil. If I wanted to broadband it to have a wider freq range what could I do? Longer coil? Fatter surface area coil? Need ideas

I’ve spent lots of time effort and money playing with stupid antennas. Taking down free ones and rebuilding them or picking up new ones. It don’t matter from what I see. A stick is just a stick. But let me explain. End fed verticals. Straight up in the air sticks of aluminum is what I’m...

Is it just me or does it seem that different radios using a different intermediate frequency are more susceptible to electrical noise That hurt my head

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.

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...