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I just got my Generals about 6 months ago and been having a blast with my Yaesu FT857. Now unfortunately because of trying to stay away from the HOA police, the best I can do antenna wise is a 98 foot end fed no higher than my roof line at 20 feet. And I don't have an attic to put another...

Awesome! Thank You!

Do the instructions actually say that the ground installation is preferred vs on the roof or elevated?

Hi, I'm thinking of buying the $525 Nano Node. ---> http://micro-node.com/ I have no access to any repeaters around here that have IRLP. But, before I do, I'd like to know if you were to do it again (assuming you have a node), would you spend the money? If your using your own node or not are you...

I'm on the second floor of my house. I erect a 20 foot painters pole from the balcony. So, it's a total of 30 feet from ground (since I'm already 10 feet up). I also lay two 30 foot strands of wire off the floor of the balcony hanging down to the ground as counterpoise. The tuner is in the shack...

Solder and then wrapping it with electrical tape.

Hi, I ran some coax straight to a 53' wire, raised it in an inverted V and added some ground planes to the shield braid of the coax. My antenna tuner tuned up fine and I made some contacts on 40m. Would of adding a 9:1 unun between the coax and wire given me even better performance or would it...

Hi, For days now I've been trying to get my mind wrapped around IRLP. To be specific, I'm trying to hook to the WIN system. I'm In Reno, so I have to go through an IRLP node to talk on it. So this what I understand so far... 1. I find a repeater with an IRLP node. 2. I hit 73 on my HT too...

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How do I do that exactly? With an ohmmeter from the braided shield to center wire? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

Hi, I'd like to run coax to a random wire from my antenna tuner. The reason I don't just run a full wire is that the first part of the run would be on the side of my house and I don't want it to radiate to the next door neighbors house. Should I connect to the wire to coax with a balun? And what...

Thanks Guys! That's actually better news than I thought I'd get. :D Now if I can get out, I guess my only other thing then might be getting around TVI. Can anyone chime in on that? Most everyone around me has Direct TV. Would they still get any interference? --Mick

Hi, New guy here. :) I've had my Technicians license for over ten years and used to talk on 2 meter and UHF, but there wasn't much action out there. I have an old Heathkit HF rig that was given to me and would like to upgrade to a General class license so I can rag chew on more than just...