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Yes, the lower output would be because of lower voltage, and honestly no-ones going to notice the difference between 3 Watts and 4 Watts. I wouldn't bother trying to up it. Much more gain to be had playing with antennas (pardon the pun).
Mate try living in Australia, anything that looks anything remotely like a gun is taboo to the people that don't jump through the hoops. Not long ago we had a Army reservist arrested for carrying a water pipe. He used it to simulate weight is an Austeyr rifle while on his morning run. Public is...
I've given up on 11m, and all HF as well. Constant S9 plus noise, tried killing main breaker to house and rig off a SLA battery, no reduction.
Horizontal longwire marginally better, but still unusable.
Loosening of imported goods emissions standards to blame.
I don't know, am an old grumpy man,?
My old Browning 22 or from the 80's at fantastic reliable and accurate, as are my Sportco from the 70's. Glad I bought them in bulk back then.
Every brand I've tried ( when I've run out at range and been forced to pay outrageous prices for) have been...
Not a repair, but a rescue. School I work at was throwing out heaps of stuff, no real hands on any more, all online experiments.
Couldn't stand to see this from the 50's scrapped. Phone for scale .
Back in my Scanner days, before everything down here went encrypted digital, I had a Diamond discone. Wideband design. But I was listening all over the spectrum.
But if you are interested in one particular frequency like 155 MHz, I'd go for an antenna cut to that frequency. A 2m or marine band...
Coming up to Summer down here in Oz.
I'm just glad I don't live in Sydney City....
From our main news site down here..
A sunny weekend in Sydney. Temperatures will be very manageable, peaking at around 25C both days. However, Monday will see a spike to 332 in the city but in the western Suburbs...
The brown disc things with one wire looks like a self resetting thermal fuse. And yes the second tab should go somewhere. I'm pretty sure the base metal disc is isolated electrically. The other guys are right, some of the components look a little toasted.
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