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Made me a base station. Sort of. Saw this grain pattern on a piece of oak plywood at Lowe's and thought it might make a good front for a radio/speaker/power supply cabinet. Came out pretty good I think. The components are suspended on metal brackets inside the case so they get airflow all around...

Always worried about a storm coming along and taking my antennas down. Had been wanting to figure out a simple way to get something back up pretty quick in case that does happen. This is what I came up with. Works real well for a temp. or portable tilt up base. Cranks up the 20' mast with an...

Made a wire inverted V dipole last year that worked well out of 12ga. stranded, insulated wire with a 1:1 balun between the two legs. Bought the 500 watt rated balun from Amazon. It makes the dipole connection to the coax really simple. This year I thought I'd try making one with two 102" steel...

I have two antennas, a 2016 Sirio ground plane and a Sirio 3 element yagi. When I am using the gp my power meter out of a 500 watt linear shows a pep on ssb of 300 with an initial swing up to 400 watts then dropping back to around 300 as I continue talking. Then on the 3 element yagi it shows...

I'm going with this logic.

Compared to most of you guys I'm just barely in the game. In my defense I'm just coming back to the hobby after about a 40 yr. layoff doing other things. Got too old to do the other things anymore so I've come back to a thing I've missed ever since I sold my trucks and went on to those 'other...