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I read here and other places of people who have difficulty with learning code. I am one of those people. Years back I was given and foreign language aptitude test. Well I was told I would never have to worry about needing to be sent to a foreign country on any church mission. I would be...

My HOA does not have antenna restrictions. Yet I know if I erected a tower it might attract undue attention from whoever found it offensive. Neighbor and wife come to mine hear. Anyway I now have 80/40/20/17/15/10 meter antennas on my small lot. You see the town I live in is nicknamed the...

What was nice was just after this contact I heard a operator from out of Humboldt County California talking. That was my old stomping grounds growing up. He was pretty weak so I did not try to contact him due to the Net going on.

Well the 5btv teamed up with the Icom IC701 got me checked into a net today. This would be my first contact on HF. So I got from Boise Id. to Grants Pass Or today. Kind of happy with that performance. I was on 80m and using a tuner to get the match a bit nicer for the Icom. I did want to...

Yes I would have preferred some other location. My wife did suggest another after seeing I had so much trouble getting the antenna tuned. So with her suggestion I have acted on using that part of the yard to begin a new project. I am in the throws of building a 40m full length vertical in...

Yeah I have seen PVC antennas all over the net too. Antron 99 comes to mind. I did my last 11m antenna in some PVC and hung it in a tree. No leaves yet but they will come. The antenna is doing very well. Tuned pretty well at 1.1:1 across the band. Antenna is a quarter wave vertical. Two...

Good to know. Was looking at my 80 meter SWRs today. Jumping all over. Other bands seem pretty stable so far. Good stiff wind blowing today too.

Oh by the way here is an after shot of the 15m trap. That wire brush on the end of my cordless drill did a great job. The dab of lemon juice went on the tab under the rivet. I did not clean the clear coating on the coils that seems to have crumbled. I don't think that effects the performance...

This may be a bit long and drawn out. Sorry for that but I will also be posting some photos of my project. I am new to the hobby. I am pretty excited about building my first station as I am sure many have been, are, and will be in the future. This is for those now and in the future who may...

Thanks all for your replies. I don't know for certain about the metallic properties but I do know that in some of the antenna DIY sites that it was said DO NOT use black PVC to build antennas inside of. Use the white. Now I can't recall exactly why but my old brain goes to the metallic...

I asked by friend Google but there was no response that made the answer clear. I do see photos and write ups of those who have built fan dipoles or dipoles in general and they were white or gray. Now I have so much of the black PVC but no white in the 4 inch size. I collected it for making...

Hope you get better Riverman71. I'm getting to an age I wonder how long I will be able to successfully navigate ladders. Being a satellite installer has kept that skill well honed but one day, yup one day... Anyway hope all goes well for your healing. Hey Mudfoot the video was very fun...

I am now setting up my station in a corner of the garage. More on that later if you would like. If not OK. The corner it is going in had such easy access to house grounding point. My equipment will be grounded to this point. That project went pretty well. There is so much to do. Coax to...

How I made the ring was I used 3 strands of 12ga solid wire that I had from when my dad and I rewired a house we were living in decades back. I have held onto that leftover roll of wire and this antenna project used up the last of it. Some of the wire now is in ground as radials. I removed...

I ended up putting 28 radials in the ground. Behind the fence is a common area of the HOA. 8 of the radials found their way into that section. No one ever goes back there. It is a service area for the irrigation water company if ever they need to access a pipe for inspection. I have seen...

I did cut the pole down to about 18 inches out of the ground. As you can see there is a ground rod. It DOES NOT go into the cement. I mounted the vertical and as you can see it is hidden in some junipers growing in the back yard. This hiding was for a neighbor who complains about the CB...

So I thought a few pictures might be in order. Often there is those who say no pictures it didn't happen. So here goes. I dug a hole for the pole. Pole is in ground just about 3 feet in a wide hole and a pad at the top. I was lucky to get down as far as I did. Soil here is very rocky here...

So I have been busy with the Hustler 5btv antenna. I have it cleaned some parts replaced. More caps have also been ordered for the traps due to age and cracking. I had to do some adjustment on the traps to get them tuned and then did some more fine tuning. I am familiar with tuning SWR on CB...

I recall reading about the DDRR antenna in a ARRL antenna book I bought as a kid back when I got into CB radio in the 70s. I was fascinated by this antenna. Maybe it is time for me to revisit it?