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BINGO!!!! You figured it out!! I didn't know that about the carrier watts, my radio only does 4 ish watts and on the low side it will do 2 watts. After reading your reply I immediately went to the radio and checked, 2 and 4 ish watts nothing, but after I turned my little 250 watt amp on, I only...

I don't know how im just seeing this video? But I am the kid that could never find the Easter eggs!!! That is the exact Diawa meter I have. I did go up and down the band above and below 40 but still only had the slightest movement of the needle. If i don't figure it out I'll take it and let...

You may be right about my SWR. I hooked my Diawa meter backwards like Nomad suggested and the opposite needle moves, so it should be working correctly. But as I started really looking at the scale I noticed for the first time the needle sits at 0 and just a little further down the needle is 1.1...

AWK did get back to me yesterday morning. He explained they are a small supplier and that they have some limitations on what they're capable of but offered to work with me. I'm sure we could have worked it out but I was dead set on buying an antenna that very minute. I thanked him for getting...

OK, here's a little update. I worked nights last hitch so I haven't got my days and nights straight yet, in about 2 hrs I will have been up 24 hrs. So I've been spending money. I ordered the 4 element delta loop from AWK and 3 hrs later they canceled the order because they didn't realize at...

After several weeks of going back and forth over should I buy this beam or not, I finally pulled the trigger tonight and bought a 4 element delta loop from AWK antennas. I looked at the SmarTech 4 element delta loop also. The AWK is very similar in build same square boom, very similar in the...

I'll try that

I'm kinda leaning towards broken. With the Power Scanner and the old Rat Shack meter my SWR reading isn't flat but they aren't far from it. I guess I should hook it up to a completely different radio set up and see if there's a difference.

I've looked at that manual 6 way to Sunday, and all I could ever get to move was one of the needles. I've even watched some videos and can see both needles move and intersect giving an SWR reading. But when I try, only one of the needles move no matter what ive tried. It's pretty much just...

I don't like my Diawa 901, I'm either to stupid to use it or it doesn't work right? But I do like my old school PDC 700 Power Scanner, I have no problems using it. Don't think they make them anymore.

Reading through the comments, Unit_399 made a comment that jarred a memory. I remember our parents bought me and my brother some walkie-talkies for Christmas around 1975-76. Dad was messing around with my walkie-talkie setting inside the house, he was talking to a guy in a neighborhood back...

57yrs old. In the early 70's my neighbor Richard (part time babysitter, I was friends with his kids) had a base station in his kitchen that I thought was cool. Then in 76 Daddy bought a JC Penny Pinto 23 ch CB that I would mess with. I dug it out of his closet about 1990 and have been in and out...

My first beam I ever owned was a home brew PDL 2 HomerBB gave to me . It was pretty impressive I thought. That's another option I could take.

After I get finished talking with some young people, I'm not so sure they're teaching them anything down here.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! ENJOY AND STAY SAFE!

I have an old V Quad antenna which I actually liked when I had it in the air. But I was thinking about buying a new one, because I ran across some specs for a 4 element delta loop. With two V Quads I would have the option to semi home brew a 3 or 4 element delta loop if I wanted to. Just...

Same here, conditions really took off about the same time in SE Okla. Talked to a couple of Houston stations normally I don't hear a lot out of Texas. I just didn't have as much time to DX as I would have liked.

I Got around to swapping my fire stick ground radials for some SS 102 ground radials today. Made a few short DX contacts into Houston , TX and one very faint station in PA, I was actually surprised he could pull me out of the pile on 38 lbs. I really enjoy this home brew antenna. Next I plan to...

I didn't do all my jugs that way. I kinda thought the same thing it might cause more trouble. But I did set it out, We did have a good time didn't keep any fish because we have plenty in the freezer. We had fish every time we ran jugs, now if I needed fish it probably wouldn't have went that...

Redid all my jug lines only to go out to check them this morning and one had the line cut off of it :mad: This sometimes happens when you've caught a good fish and some lowlife run your jug. So I add a message to this one, I think I'll do them all this way.