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  1. highspeed556

    Looking for an amp for the 11m base

    I originally posted this I think in the wrong place under the ham section. My bad. So I'm looking for a small amp to hook up on my 11m base, around the 100-200 watt area. I'll be driving it with a stock (unmolested) Uniden 980SSB, and I'd like to have the ability to do SSB, although I'll be...
  2. highspeed556

    Looking for a small amp to hook up on the 11m base.

    So I'm looking for a small amp to hook up on my 11m base, around the 100-200 watt area. I'll be driving it with a stock (unmolested) Uniden 980SSB, and I'd like to have the ability to do SSB, although I'll be using it for AM as well. Unless I'm bad off, I've narrowed down to the following...
  3. highspeed556

    What do you think of my homebrew 11m vertical dipole?

    So I've still got to take it all back down, glue it all together, paint it, and then bracket it to the roof as well. However, it's up, and it works. SWR is about 1.1 on ch1 and 1.25 on ch40. There's a 5' steel fence post drove into the ground about 1-1/2' that's the anchor point, where the...
  4. highspeed556

    Anyone ever used a retractable flagpole to get a vertical antenna in the air?

    So I'm contemplating setting up a base station in my garage. CB for now, but I'd like to get my Ham ticket soon. But 11m is all I'm worried about right now. I have some locals about 10-15 miles away I would like to be able to reach. But the only experience I have is with installing mobiles. I...
  5. highspeed556

    Why does my Bearcat 980s built in SWR meter only work if I have an external meter hooked up?

    Why is it that if I just have my antenna connected directly to my radio, my radios SWR meter will always read 1.0 on all channels? Yet if I hook my external meter up to the radio, then the radios built in meter reads pretty similar readings to what my external meter reads (1.05 on ch 1 and 1.5...