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  1. HomerBB

    Which one, and why? Toroids - Baluns and Ununs.

    The question is simple, and geared to my way of thinking. I am always less interested in hieroglyphics, and more interested in what did you do and why YOU chose that one. And, of course, did it work and how well. Especially in multiband antenna use. Making baluns and ununs isn't difficult, but...
  2. HomerBB

    RIP my old project...

    12 years ago I built the tip over mast discussed in the link below. It never failed me, and saw many fun hours of homebrew antennas mounted or attached to it. However, a couple weeks ago my wife and I stood in the backyard and she once again quietly said, "That pole is an ugly and I wish it...
  3. HomerBB

    More Than One Way (to look at a thing)

    You see an insulated portable lunch box. I see 8 perfectly formed 1/2" aluminum Moxon antenna corners. Probably a 2m, and 10m.
  4. HomerBB

    Astatic 200S Mic

    Astatic 200S mic with 1/8" mono plug on the cord. Flea market find priced $54.
  5. HomerBB

    Homebrew of a Different Kind

    In 1996 I resigned from the small Southeast Missouri church where I had been ministering for a few years and purchased a 1957 GMC coach that had been a Greyhound bus in it's youth. I would take it from the weekend camper a singing church band was using it as, and convert it into a full fledged...
  6. HomerBB

    Just QRP fun.

    Again, today, 4/21/22, another great QRP contact on 15m - 21.300 mhz. PV8AL, Hello, in Brazil using 5 watts. My conditions were the uBitx v 6.1 and Imax 2000 @ 37' to the coax connector. Total distance from me, 3,313 miles. Yesterday, 4/20/22, Just for the fun of it, I had a Cleveland Ohio...
  7. HomerBB

    Home Building a Homebrew Manual Tuner

    I have finally began putting together my manual tuner. I rolled those two inductors about 3 years ago. I got busy, and sidetracked. Now, I've just mounted them on the board. I know, primitive, but what else do I do... What I will likely need is some of you who've made your own to offer tips...
  8. HomerBB

    NanoVNA-H4

    I got a little bitty nanovna a while back and didn't like it. I fussed about it and gave it away to someone who uses it. Now, I'm trying again with a newer version 4" screen model. I may need help...
  9. HomerBB

    Home Vertical fan dipole.

    Needed a 220Mhz antenna. So I added it to my 2m/70cm fan dipole. Now it is a 144/220/440 vertical fan dipole. Working okay. Yes, it isn't a 17' tall high gain vertical. It does get me into local repeaters and local rag chews. I also bought the tri-band Btech UV25×4 mobile to use as the base...
  10. HomerBB

    AT-778UV Mixed Emotions

    A fellow once said he had mixed emotions. His mother in law had driven his new pickup truck over a cliff... There isn't anything about this radio for the money I didn't like, until... I put a Tram 1481 antenna up (it was a gift) increasing my tx/rx range over the smaller verticals I'd been...
  11. HomerBB

    Getting my 6m antennas done. Moxon 1st.

    Three years ago I tossed together a quick and dirty 6m Moxon. It worked well, but was really rough in some ways. This was one of my "walker" specials. This same antenna was/is 100% the metal parts of aluminum crutches and a walker. I went back over it refining the look, and the dimensions. While...
  12. HomerBB

    Thank You, Everyone

    To all of you who asked about both my wife and my health as we battled through Covid 19 back to health, Thank you. Many of you sent best wishes, while some openly committed to prayer and others kept their prayers close to their hearts. My wife came home yesterday afternoon. To help you...
  13. HomerBB

    What is causing this?

    In the area there are at least 3 stations hearing this interference regularly. 2 of us are 3 miles from each other, and the 3rd station is 8 miles from me, 9 miles from the station 3 miles from me. My radio hearing this is the Anytone 778. The next nearest station is a Kenwood. The most...
  14. HomerBB

    Terminated endfed inverted Vee

  15. HomerBB

    The Truth, ... ,and Nothing But The Truth (as I've experienced it)

    I have tried numerous EFHW 49:1 antennas, and no matter how good they look with a resistor load I have never had one successfully load with a wire across multiple bands with >2:1 SWR on all the bands. I've always had to use a tuner somewhere. In fact, running a ~66' wire in the inverted V...
  16. HomerBB

    What do These Fit?

    Wanting to get an answer about what these go on for my wife's friend. I'm in the crosshairs here. I'm supposed to be "all knowing". Yep, some kind of collector. Yep, some kinda manifold. Nope, I don't know exactly what they go on. Do you?
  17. HomerBB

    Butternut HF5B Free

    I have an HF5B like in the photo free to first come first serve. NW Arkansas. Pick up only.
  18. HomerBB

    Working on a Multiband Portable Antenna

    Here is something I've been working on in spare time for a few days. It's not complete as I want to refine it and do more testing. I gave it a test run for a while this afternoon and managed 3 contacts, 2 on 20m, 1 on 40m today. My QTH is NW Arkansas. I was running my uBitx 5.1 at 3 watts out...
  19. HomerBB

    It's Hard to Get Good Help

    I guess anyone will do...This isn't staged. I personally took the photo while visiting a nearby town.
  20. HomerBB

    Slinky Doublet

    With so much talk about HOA/wife antenna restrictions I decided months ago to experiment again with an attic antenna. I didn't, until now. Because of the weather lately with my feedline buried in snow drifts my main end fed multiband HF wire antenna had become unreliable. I don’t do outdoor...