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I always heard you need 3 Teams... one at the shop one ready to go to the shop and one to talk on hopefully till you get the one back lol... I have a D201A that Nomad has worked on for me and it's held up pretty well... just make sure use the VFO leave the channel selector alone lol
When the DX is really running hard 38 lsb is almost useless to have a QSO of any length. When the DX is running from other countries you can get on 27.555 and usually make a contact and move to another frequency and have a decent conversation. Now and then though it is fun to pull out the big...
It will well worth the drive to get Nomad to do that work for you. He is the only guy I have had to do any work for me for over 25 yrs. He is the real deal.
The best description I have heard is ham radio is like a formal affair and 11 meters is like a back yard bbq lol... one black tie the other cutoffs and tee shirts lol
Back in the 80's I had a set of those stacked in the other shape. They worked very well but like you Saud it takes away from horizontal and vertical both in that position. Can't hurt to try it if you can without a lot of trouble
Good luck on finding a used Bird for under 200 that doesn't look like it's been drug down a gravel road. I have 2 43's and half a dozen slugs and bought them used and have as much in them as that. Like Nomad said they are more than just a power meter. If I were going to buy a new meter t I day I...
We have timber rattlers and copperhead here just gotta watch out. Curios if you measured it to see how long it was. Also they make pretty good table fair.
I ran a set of stacked 2 element v quads back in the 70s and 80s and talked all over the world with them. If a ground plane or Super Scanner kicked their butt then something was not right with them if the locations were similar.
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