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my megawatt 400 has been powering my TS-2000 ans some other UHF radios for 4 years now never even turn it off.. only thing so far was the fan starting to make some noise.. but i am still planing to get 1 more to pare them up.. there Good PSU's!!
Yeah he was never intending to go with a coil of feedline or "dirty balun" he was looking in to a MFJ-918... i suggested he get one on his 40/20m antenna then a guy at his work is a Ham and he all so told him to run one...
what was all so confusing is he posted "Pick a balun, ask the...
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All say 160 m to 10 m with my MFJ analyzer and 50 ohm dumby load on my 1to1 balun i get 1:1 from 1.8mhz to 30mhz 50mhz get up to 2:0
On my 4:1 i get near the same readins
As a Note i had to cut off 10' off that RG58 coax he is using before i got to good copper..
I never toll him "Belden" was bad cable just that That cable is so so i would not trust on a $600+ radio.
And Quaz you still need to fix your pl-259 connector with the cable falling out..
i have never...
ok it is working good now o_O i think it may had some thing to do with the temp in the room and having a fan in the room when i was setting it up..
I had it running for 1 hr and when i had the lid off it cooled down.. i may have taken to long to make the adjustments..
The coax he is talking about was legit sitting in mud under a friends deck for years with the metal spool nearly rotted away. It was originally just to git him going with his CB Radio... now that's he is running the Icom soooo yeah i would play it on the safe side....
Edit: I restored this post...
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