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Recent content by camaro1

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    11 meter is very quiet?

    KC4TVZ beacon is going strong today
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    KB5KCN Silent Key

    Very sorry for your loss, Hang in there.
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    Icom HM-219 MOD

    im using the HM-219 on my 7410 and i dont think it needs any more audio level. To me the icom HM-219 is great in stock form and what every hm-36 mic should have been.
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    Mega Watt power supplies

    i have 2 of them, the 36 amp and the newer 50 amp with the quieter fan, both work great, the 36 amp i had for 7+ years now,
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    Need help with microphone conversion cable

    if your cobra needs the mic plugged in to receive then you will need to come up with a way to ground pin 4 when just receiving and un ground it when you go to transmitt, so with the mic you want to use its not a simple plug swap to make it work id look for a different mic to use on the cobra
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    Need help with microphone conversion cable

    pin 8 to pin 2 pin 7 to pin 1 pin 6 to pin 3 pin 5 to pin 1 this is only if your cobra radio has receive audio without the mic plugged in. some cobra radios need the rx pin grounded to receive
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    New toy Hackrf one with portpack

    my hackrf/portapack (chinese clone) died on me a couple days ago, i went to use it and plugged in the usb cord to my battery pack and the l.e.d.'s came on but no display, then i unplugged it and could smell a faint burnt smell. took it apart and i couldnt see anything that looked burnt, anyone...
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    Surgery tommorow.

    good luck!
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    New toy Hackrf one with portpack

    portapack-Mayhem V1.2 firmware update just released: https://github.com/eried/portapack-mayhem/releases?fbclid=IwAR2FeYD7zEAZc4pk9JVoRqFZTiAZH-HIUJYgoWR8WocErV51FFEll2e_EZU you need 7-Zip to unzip the folders after you download them: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
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    New toy Hackrf one with portpack

    just playing with mine, did get it to record/open a couple of MY garage doors, and it does read vehicle tpms sensors, the aircraft monitor does work and shows their location on a map, and it does read mine and probly my neighbors water meters, and just general scanning through some bands and...
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    Base Home Brew Gain Master video

    i made one a while ago and put it up in a buddys tree, worked great. i also made a 6m version for local use and it also worked great up about 50' in a pine tree i didnt use any pole, just strung them up in a tree and i used rg-213 for the matching stub also instead of splitting the coax and...
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    New toy Hackrf one with portpack

    This is the hackrf one with the portapack , pocket size SDR, the portapack plugs right into the hackrf one sdr receiver, its powered by any usb battery pack and is a complete sdr receiver this is the Chinese clone, but from all the vids I watched , the clones work exactly the same as the...
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    Im Getting it up!! My Will-Burt 60' Pneumatic telescoping mast

    any specs on the wind load rating at different heights?
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    COMPACtenna 20m/2m/440

    I just used that spot because that is where I had my screwdriver antenna with a uhf mount,, I put a uhf-nmo adapter on and put the compactenna on the adapter,,, swr is fine on 2m and 440, not perfect but still under 2:1swr
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    COMPACtenna 20m/2m/440

    https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamants/6007.html 40, 20, 10, 6 meters plus the 2 meter, 220 MHz and 440 MHz bands I haven't seen this version till today,, wow $380 ,, for the other models at a price point under the $100 range I can see giving them a try , but not at this price