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I have been playing around with the QT-80 I recently purchased from Radioddity. I'm only getting about 50 % power, in all modes. Only 40 peak on SSB, only 30-35 peak in am from only an 8 watt deadkey (all of this is with RF power knob maxed). FM only 18-21 watts, depending on frequency...

So I got the last couple of things to mount a Wilson 2000 Trucker (10 in. shaft) on the ladder for my RV using a 4 bolt bracket mount. SWR is quite bad. I'm around 3.4:1 at 29 Mhz, even with the whip at its shortest. The SWR actually goes down as I go down in frequency. About the best I get...

Ay caramba. $78 bucks for a 102 inch whip? That's insane.

Hi all. It's been a minute since I've been on here. A tornado in 2019 wiped out all my antennas. I decided at the time to invest the insurance money that I got for them into my flight simulation hobby and mothball my equipment for a while. My wife and I are going to retire and become...

I want to build an off-center fed dipole for 80 meters and up. I will be using an LDG AT100Pro II automatic tuner. Possibilities I have thought about are: a) feed with coax with a 4/1 balun at the feedpoint. b) use coax just to get outside the shack and place a 4/1 balun there and go the...

Since getting my FT-847 back repaired, I am trying to get SSTV working again. I am using MMSSTV 1.13A (latest), and a Tini-Cat-847 interface which seems to be functioning properly. TX freq is 14.230 into my wire antenna. Running 50 watts. I had this same setup working a few years ago, and...

I am looking for an affordable place where I can order wire and insulators and stuff to make a couple of wire antennas. I am familiar with The Wireman, but their prices seem a little on the high side, but maybe that's just because it has been a few years since I was looking at that kind of stuff.

Hi everyone. I've been away from the forum for quite a while. I have a Yaesu Ft-847 that I have just discovered is no longer transmitting on the HF bands. I would like to get it repaired, and I am seeking recommendations. I am in Illinois, and would love to find somewhere to get it...

Anyone know where I can order the little lamps that illuminate the meters in an Astatic 600? I want to get maybe a half dozen.

I am having trouble getting rid of HRD from my computer. I am running XP. I ran the add/remove programs and it went fine. Then got rid of the program folder in Program Files/HRD software LLC folder. Then got rid of the Simon Brown folder in USERS/ME/Application Data. There is some vestigial...

I finally got around to re-doing my office/shack/computer room. What an ordeal! I had put things together in a real hodge-podge way when we moved out here. I had only one outlet to work with, so I had this daisy-chain of outlet strips and surge suppressors. Also, odd, mis-matched desks...

My Ham shack computer runs Windows XP. I have a radio that sends audio into my sound card and then I play the audio through the computer speakers. In other words the audio feeds through. I want to replace this machine with a newer one, and would like to keep running Vista on the new machine...

I just pulled the trigger on a new Sirio Gainmaster-500 antenna to replace the Imax-2000 that broke in a wind storm last year. Fair bit of change, but I wanted to try something different. The Imax did a decent enough job, but I did get some RFI in a couple sets of speakers. It may have just...

What is the point of trying to compare omnidirectional CB antennas using testing that has too many variables to be meaningful? Different mounts, heights, feedlines, times of day, conditions (yes, groundwave conditions vary a great deal on 10 and 11 meters) . RX stations with a possible agenda...

So I went to my local Radio Shack to get a 4-pin mic connector to rewire a desk mic, and they and all my local stores are out and don't seem too motivated to get any in. They offered to order ME one and ship it to a local store of my choice, but I'd rather not reward their sloppy and careless...

Let's see if we can't get a little digi today if 10 opens a little. 28.120. See you on the Waterfall!

I'm hearing a few signals coming up on 10 this morning---maybe we'll have a little opening today. I'll be listening on 28.400 and in and out of the chatroom if anyone wants to try to make contact, either on 10 or somewhere else. If I don't respond in chat, I probably stepped away and forgot...

1995 Subaru Legacy Wagon. Overheating. Replaced thermostat and gasket. Still overheating. Water Pump? Heater Core? There seems to be a film of some sort accumulating on the inside of the windshield. Related perhaps?

Ham Radio Deluxe version 4.1 (latest build) using the logbook function in the add log entry window, when I try to enter a new callsign and hit the QRZ button, it is not working -- "not found". This used to work as it should, but won't even work with my callsign. Going directly to QRZ or using...

So I blew up my Galaxy DX2517 a week or two ago, probably running SSTV on 10 meters at too high of a level. Normally, I would have sent the rig to SS8541 Electronics, but shipping has gotten so damn high, I figured I'd drive the 40 miles to Sparky's CB Shack here in central IL, and see if...