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hard to catch a trend at the right time, never know what will sell good , been in the used motorcycle parts business for 40 years or so, seen a lot of trends come and go If I'm buying radio equipment online, unless it's is basically free, i want it new with factory warranty

Retired motorcycle shop manager

First I want to thank you Dan for taking the time to share your information , I've only been back on the radio for a year or so, SSB only about a month, I got into radio because I like experimenting with antennas and making DX contacts, (good cheap fun), I log a DX contact if we exchange call...

Have you looked at zerofive ? 100 mph rated, around $500 for their 5/8

Close to Milano, only been on ssb a couple of weeks, made quite a few dx contacts , will keep an ear out for you

Yep that was me, I could still hear you when you were at Waco talking to South Carolina

Good group of old operators, most of those folks have been on the radio over 50 years, couple of them are my neighbors, they have been helping me get back into radio

http://dx-antennas.com Some good reading there, cleared up some of my confusion, thanks wavrider

that's what I was thinking

Putting up 5/8 Ground Plane , Don't have it yet, (still playing with the home brew 5/8) I like the zero five but probably going with the hy-gain due to price, got enough rohm tower sections to get feed point to 30 or so feet, my elevation is right at 500 feet and the terrain is Sandy soil with...

antenna building is quite gratifying

Is that what's causing it? On 4/20 in Central Texas we we're getting a pulse beep feedback noise on all bands showing a full S9 on my meter, most of the day, it was coming through car speakers, and the SoundLink, went away the next day

10 + thats lota of gain

My 1/4 wave antenna is grounded with it's own wire to a copper rod just below the antenna, it's connected to the mounting lug where the radials and jacketed part of the coax meet, this was done so the antenna would work and have an acceptable SWR, Lighting? My rig is always unplugged when not in...

I'm thinking of hanging my ground plane from a tree , what do you about earth ground for the antenna?

YouTube , he knows FT-101

More often than not, when AM is dead here in central Texas, 24, 32, and couple more have skip out of Mexico, I don't speak Spanish but it's interesting, my radio has been off, I run the channels in the mobile, nothing, even on 6 and 28, staying on 19 till solar cycle turns

I'm WDX 703, name should say LongStride not Christopher 12, and location Elevation Texas, sorry about messing that up

Copper wire for my 1/4 wave radials also, set our cabin station up with just 2 it works great for what we use it for, 4 on the one at home , used that design that BJ posted

Ok, element not loose just the bracket, I would leave it alone too, that way you can retorque if they work loose over time as opposed to bottomed out