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You aren't comparing Apples to Apples. All you are supplying is an opinion. As my lawyer said to me, everyone has an opinion, and like butt holes - they usually stink! A 2 meter mobile is basically no different then a CB radio. FM modulation into a repeater - where you are working the...

The only way the Kenwood 850 will have good filtering in it - is if you put it in it! The Original Poster asked about Software Defined Radio and you responded with old technology.. The Flex radio system is not all that expensive, but it is not portable as in that you can grab the radio and...

Alinco's traditionally tends to be cheap pieces of junk with no factory support. I think that a Chinese company bought Alinco for their designs and is producing knock off's - with no customer support for their previous offerings. I would stand clear of anything with Alinco printed on it.

I threw away an email that my brother had wrote for me a long time ago. It basically explained that a transformer basically has coils wrapped in paper and submerged in oil and that with time the components breaks down, or fails and the oil in the older transformers usually has PCB's in the...

In the AM portions of the bandplan- at the band edge.. Having good sounding AM audio in my opinion is sad.. We aren't supposed to broadcast, and the money you wasted on that equipment could have been better spent buying a more modern rig. 520 and 830 is ancient technology..

Kevin - WJ8G is a friend of mine. If you would like to talk to Kevin, I can send you a private message with his telephone number. I think you are a little confused and that you don't understand how a diplexer / duplexer works and what is involved. The range of the cavities of the filters...

If you contact the ARRL they will usually refer you to one of their power line experts.. Power Line Noise linenoise Power Line Noise - Power Line Noise, de NØRQ Power line noise

My electric company claimed the same claims as yours did, that they did not have the equipment to check for faulty equipment, and maybe the fault was in the fact that they did not have any hams in their employ and so they did not have anyone that knew how to use the equipment. To make matters...

Your problem is that you are the only HAM that is complaining. If you were a good ham, you would have recruited some of your friends and neighbors into the amateur radio service, you would have joined ARES and RACES and tried to participate in the nets.. Once you contact your county EC and...

All that the homeowner has to do is tell the electric company that there is a electric company transformer in her backyard that is shooting out sparks and the electric company will be there in a matter of hours with a new transformer. As far as getting the electric company to move the...

My question is - how did you get them to come out on Aug.26,2023 - that would be physically impossible unless you were driving Doc Jones Delorean..:p

The only thing we are concerned with is the Voltage - hence VSWR - not SWR. When checking the VSWR we should always start with the lowest amount of power available - since VSWR will change with more voltage. So no - you are incorrect when you say that this person should recalibrate their meter...

Find yourself a REAL HAM that can Elmer you. Get rid of the MFJ junk and the CB radio junk - you are a ham now, you need to buy at the very least a off-center fed 80 meter dipole. A 10 meter dipole antenna just isn't going to cut it if you want to work the HF Bands,,, Just because you can...

I must pick and choose my words carefully. There is a web site, I do not remember the address, where the host was an X electric company employee and also a amateur radio operator. In that web site, he teaches you how to build a receiver and a antenna to detect interference and then goes...

If you were a member of M.A.R.S. they would either mod it for you or tell you how to mod it. If you open it up and mod it yourself, you void the warranty. Unless you have a reason - why it should be modded, you are better off to just leave it in the factory configuration until the warranty...

I agree 100% with your gain assumptions and I often times get into shouting matches with the local hambones on two meters when they try to tell me that they have a 5/8 wave - two meter - trunk lip mounted antenna and it has 6 or 8 db of gain over a quarter wave antenna. When I try to tell them...

With all the 11 meter antenna's I have ever used, the ones that worked the best - with the crappy AM / SSB CB radios was the antenna's that was placed in a free space ( nothing in the first and second Fresnel Zone ) somewhere between 30 and 60' in height. For talking Locally - the higher...

The reason why he sounds really good is because UHF is FM and you can adjust the deviation - mic gain, and the operator probably has a radio voice. This is the advantage that a person with this kind of radio has over someone that just has a handheld or a mobile FM rig. Using a efficient...

Before I say anything - please do not be offended by what I am about to say - Please! You have a basic $1000.00 transceiver, it's basic design is that it is somewhat a mobile that is designed to be a take along radio. Its stock mic has been configured to be very good. Most people looking...

If you look at the ARRL web site for the 100 years anniversary, each state gets two shots and being able to use the W1AW - including anyone that is a VE. I think there is some kind of roster that is kept of the operators and their times of operations - but it really doesn't make you anything to...