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Bend the bracket a little to make it contact the element more firmly, just my opinion but it shouldn't be loose at all

Yep, Morse code longer required,.binrat does the numbers, ask here, check the chart to see if your call.nubmer is available, lastly, no ham ticket required for cb contesting https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/wdx-roster.28909/page-10

Highland Lakes area? use to race dirt bikes out in that part of the state, nice area lots of elevation changes, I would imagine quite a difference down in Florida.

East of Austin close to College Station

t my ground plane has great ears it just won't reach back, there's a yagi experiment in the works , may be a year or so down the road before I tackle that one

I'm in Central Texas, Florida by far has the loudest stations, Carolina's have some good talkers too, hard to pick third best, three way tie between Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky

Thanks for all the responses and discussions, as fun as AM is, don't think it's worth it putting the money it would take to get out there, the advantages of SSB far outwieghs the amount of money needed to DX on AM , I'll be paitient, maybe the 5/8 wave will have enough gain to make some kind of...

the icom 718 is what I was saving up for, about 600$ new with a warranty, should be a good enough rig for a new operater to learn on I've been studying yagis, was surprised at the DB gain , will be my next antenna experiment after the 5/8 wave ground plane , didn't want to have to deal with a...

Got a decent hill for my station, right at 500 feet elevation in Central Texas, I can here Jamica, Belise, Caribbean islands, Puetro Rico, Florida, George, Iowa, Carolina's, Illinois, California, New York, Kentucky, south America ,you name it, after being on the radio for 6 months, I've been...

I'm a bike guy too. retired off road racer, 30+ years behind the counter

Nevermind some kind of problem here .....

703 Central Texas , I recognize most of y'all , and have talked with a few, my neighbor keeps telling me I need a foot warmer

Interested in the cobra 138 , can you give me a total shaped to 76556 ?

looking at this simple solution , has anyone have experience with this kind of matching transformer, I am assuming the tap point is critical depending on what frequency, this looks similar to the matching transformer on the Hy-Gain 5/8 ground plane , may just have to play with it , think I...

will add pics when completed :)

thanks binrat

going to try something like this, building my first 5/8 wave , assuming there a specific place to tap the ring and would most likely be frequency specific as to the tap location.?

the 5/8 super penetrated does something similar to this for its balancer

then this but I don't understand

Interesting reading , the pi design overly complicated for a single use 11 meter thinking something like this ?