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My shack is in a second-floor room and a member of my radio club suggested I try an artificial ground to possibly improve my signal by giving my radio something to "push against" electrically. The AG, an MFJ model, arrived this week. It appears that grounds are connected in series from radio to...

I put up a 73' dipole antenna between two trees and hooked it up this week. The antenna is above the house and about 20' away. I let the ladder line droop until it was even with the eaves, then ran it along the eave to the balun. From there, I ran the heavy 400 coax down to a surge arrestor...

I have a Powerwerx SPS-30DM power supply that I purchased with my Icom IC-7300. It's rated 25A continuous and 28A surge. Voltage can be fixed at 14.1V or varied from 5-16V dc. This week I added a Yaesu FT-7900R to my station as a base station for 2 meter and 70cm. Waddaya think? Can I run both...

A week ago I purchased a Yaesu FT-60R handheld radio and replaced the stock rubber duck antenna with a Diamond SRH77CA. Since that time, I've monitored each of the local repeaters for some period of time. I can hear the IDs every ten minutes or so, but during the entire week, I've not heard a...

I have a 140' dipole antenna that I'll be hanging sometime this week for use with my Icom I-7300. I'm in southern Maine, so If you guys were in my position would you string the antenna oriented north/south or east/west? It looks like north/south would be good for DX contacts in Europe and here...

Just came home today from Ham Radio Outlet in Salem, NH, with a brand-new Icom IC-7300 in the backseat. They also fixed me up with a power supply and a 140' dipole antenna. Now the challenge is to string the antenna between two trees on my heavily-wooded lot and hope I can make contact. Still...

I got a Grundig Satellit 750 for Christmas and was thinking about stringing a long wire antenna around the house. Basically, I was thinking of running speaker wire out of an upstairs window, and then along the west side to the end of the house, then around the full length of the southwest end...