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As far as emp goes, my radio room is a faraday cage inside of a metal building. All of the steel panels are electrically connected to each other and grounded. The cage has two layers of wire shielding and the concrete floor is shielded as well. Even protected against knife edge propagation. I store my Goldwing motorcycle in there as well.

Most of the contacts I have made have been without any additional power. My Icom 746 and my QSO King antenna reach out with no problems. I do have a amplifier but I have never powered it up and is not even in my radio room. It was part of a package deal and it was just a little sweetener for the deal. I know it works the former owner demonstrated it for me.