Recent content by snippits75

VQ3 will work good at 12 foot above the ground. It's going to be less noisy than the four element. Depending upon the area you live in, the receiver noise could be a tremendous difference. I just don't like the way they are assembled. The V shape is basically eyeballing it, and tightening...

I bought the 60 amp model years ago to power a two pill 2879 and Lincoln 2+ radio. Bad hum on transmit. Bought a Megawatt 40 amp, and it had no problem with the amp and radio. Beware of the PowerMax drop shippers. They won't refund money on a faulty supply. Ended up arguing with PowerMax...

I have only heard 1111 guy when conditions were good for Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas from here in NC. I don't hear Cali stations most of time when I have good conditions from the mentioned above states. My beam and conditions have told me the annoyance is coming from one of above three...

I hear the two NY stations door knobbing every now and then spazzing out 27.385. It is definitely irritating.

I have heard him talk a few times, and he definitely had a light Hispanic accent.

If the economy keeps going the way it has been the last few years, in two more years you could ask $7,500!

I had the Cobra 450 XL back years ago. It had Motorola 454 transistors. From the previous link that was posted, it looked the same on the outside and inside. I bought it to flip fast, but now I know that was a mistake. A deputy sheriff in VA now owns that beauty!

Overall, conditions have been down lately for me over the previous weeks/months. But I have made some first time contacts too. Today made contact with division 138, Vatican City State, that I have been trying to get for a while. Had contact with division 226, Malawi, in Africa over the...

1.7 won't even trigger the factory default setting of 2.0 SWR alert on the export radios, so yes I think you should be just fine. Good luck with the Elkin because they are fine amps.

If you got the input to adjust with the tuner in the picture, then don't touch the other ones especially if you don't know what they are for. I know at least one of them is for bias tune, and I have no idea what all the others do.

You tuned it with amp on yes? There are other tuners in there. My six tube had six or seven of the tuners that is shown in the picture. The man that built and designed the Elkin amps told me himself to use six foot jumpers. I was at Ray's shop in Elkin, NC to pick up my four tube 12DQ6B amp...

There is a variable tuner inside the case(bottom) that tunes the input. Flip it upside down, and take the bottom off. It's been a few years since I have tuned the input on a Elkin four tube and six tube. Take a picture of it if you can.

Lots of noise pointing towards Europe today. It's raining solar protons, and my radio hears it. It's a good bit quieter pointing towards South America. Finally, made contact with Ecuador for the first time. Only time I have ever heard division 61. The contact was 61RC104 from Quito...

Go into menu, and do a reset all.

Finally logged Rwanda 227AT160 at 5/5. Thought I would never get through that pile up lol.