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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...

Sorry it took so long to get back, but I followed your advice quoted below. I ran the ladder line directly to the tuner and I've had terrific success and good audio reports ever since. Last night alone I worked three stations from Italy and one each from Belgium, Northern Ireland, England...

Gary, Thanks for the terrific information. I appreciate your taking the time. Earlier tonight I ordered an MFJ -993B Antenna Tuner, Intellituner, Automatic, Desktop, 300 Watts, 160-10 meters. Should be here Wednesday. I ordered it before reading your missive. Will the 993B work or do I need...

Thanks, I was considering one of these. May take a chance on one.

The manufacturer claims it's good for 80 to 10 meters. It's a Granite State Ultralite Junior. 4:1 balun. I've been told not to cut the ladder line, that it's okay to coil the excess in loose coils, not to coil it. It's a little confusing. Ideally, I'd cut the excess six or seven feet off and...

Brand new 4:1. Coax is all new, as well.

Center-fed, no rain gutters, cedar siding. The manufacturer of the antenna says that excess ladder line can be loosely coiled. This coil is a little tight, but not sure it's enough to cause SWR this high. Could be wrong, of course.

Only the last six feet or so. The total length of the ladder line is 82 feet, I believe.

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...

Thanks for the antenna suggestions, guys. I may undertake building one of those soon. By the way, how do those antennas perform on the 70cm band?

Things have improved in my area since I started this thread. There's one repeater that's fairly active with chat during the morning and evenings and hosts a newcomers' net every Sunday evening. It also hosts SkyWarn activity and will probably be activated later today as we go into yet another...

Love that cabinet.

Finally got the tree guy over to get the hoisting tackle placed in the trees for the dipole antenna. Went pretty smoothly, with supervision from my noble dog, Denver. Once this Nor' Easter passes through this weekend, I'll start getting the final stages of the station set up. Looks like he got...

Thanks, guys. I certainly can't imagine a situation where I'd be transmitting on both simultaneously, so it sounds like I'd be okay. Ham Radio Outlet, where I purchased the power supply, had a shelf of around six mobil units hooked into a single SPS-30DM power supply and it ran them all just...

Nah, don't have that level of concentration any more.:LOL:

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...

Thanks, I looked it up on Amazon and will keep it in mind. One nice thing about this forum…I get to draw from the experiences of people who've been at this a lot longer than I have.

Thanks, guys. I've actually gotten a few nibbles on one of the local UHF repeaters on my FT-60R HT, but just snatches that break squelch a few words at a time. I'm debating grabbing a Yaesu FT-7900 for a dual-band base station. Even if there's not much activity I can use it for the club's online...

My club had an online meeting tonight, but the repeater system they were using was out of range for me. I did catch snatches of conversation on the UHF repeater, but not strong enough for me to get in. In the meantime, drive time or no, the local repeaters near me are dead. I get repeater idents...

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...