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Crawdad, we are making progress.
She's still in the hospital, and I am still quarantined at home. But we are making some incremental improvements.
Thank you for asking.
I will go on a search for this when I get well.
Both my wife and I have covid. She's in the hospital, I am fighting it from home. Way to weak, and using a breathing machine to keep up with oxygen.
Could be all of the above. However, this is a new development. We've all been operating without this noise for a few years. It has been happening to the most distant Icom station for about 3 weeks on and off everyday. The nearer Kenwood station has seen it now for weeks, but not daily, and...
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...
1. Did you use horizontal?
2. Did you optimize it fastidious?
3. Did you use aluminumb tubing? Far superior to wire model.
4. Did you get it up as high as possible above the ground?
They work at any height, but on a short pole like the majority with 24' more vertical antenna above the pole is...
All you need is a coil (inductor).
Bottom of coil and coax shield to the radials.
Center conductor of coax to the 50 Ohm tap point on the coil. Top of coil to the vertical radiator.
The radials are isolated from the vertical radiator except through the coil itself. The radials are located at the...
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