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Yes just easier. But when the human character element is in there as several stations are in a loose informal type QSO, someone will say "heah your off frequency" well this starts the stirring of the pot. "No I am on the center slot, dead nutz on, your off frequency" And so the humor goes on...

Hello All: I take it NightOwl326 is using sheet metal type screws in the antenna tubing vertical section. Mike Sp5it is right in his photo showing stainless steel screws going thru the tubing to hold it together, that's a bullet proof way of doing it. For tubing that may need to have its...

No Modified Clarifiers that control both transmit and receive are necessary in any SSB type communications. Recite all the rules you want it isn't going to happen, the SSB Ops will always have the clarifier modified. Nomadradio is right again. Jay in the Great Mojave Desert.... "Next Gas 150...

In the old days of CB SSB you had to modify your clarifier for both transmit and receive as many stations were just a little bit off frequency, and the modified clarifier was a big help. Now a days not so much so because many are running a Yasue, Icom, Kenwood, or even a Collins radios. But...

While testing the first Interceptor 10K Antenna, a highly modified Maco V5000 at ten feet, with a bone stock Motorola System 500 mobile radio, a station breaking in wanting to know what we were all testing. MY friend was running plenty of steam, and talked to this guy from Australia, then I...

Yo: That is Bitchen Inc. Suggest you have someone raise and then lower then again raise the tower while you are watching the S-Meter on local radio traffic. You will see NO sweet spot just stations getting stronger as it gets higher. Please let us know. Jay in the Great Mojave Desert...

Yep what Handy Andy says, try another radio, try replacing the antennas with 102 inch Stainless Steel whip antennas, I've my A$$ kicked many times wondering into the house playing with my spit having technical problems. When trouble shooting these type of problems one is painted into a corner...

Ok makes me mad not having the answer, but not the first or last time I am sure. Suggest using a single antenna and see what you get with that, then add on the second antenna. If it shows a lower VSWR this may indicate something wrong with the second coax/antenna. It would be great if you...

Had a guy say my Interceptor 10K could not be tuned right, as his power increased so did his VSWR. After a few phone calls, I asked him to transmit into a Dummy Load and the results were the same, increased VSWR with increased power from a large transistorized amp. This proved that the amp was...

I wonder how that Gain Master type design would work with RG 393 Coax, surly you could run more power to it. But at its price of 9 US Dollars and up there goes the cheap and easy part out the window. If one wants to play, one must pay. The Physics of gettin out. Jay in the Great Mojave...

Hello John: Yes there are many antennas that cover the VHF Band of frequencies for the MURs frequencies/channels. My favorite is the New Tronics G7 150-1 that covers 148 to 155 MHz. The assembly instructions show how to assemble the antenna length for the within the desired frequency range of...

Hello All: Wow a Echo Box I didn't know they had such a thing. I am gonna get me one thats great! While going to work takes about 20 minutes driving time, monitoring 38 LSB some times I can hear stations from back east just starting to roll in, in the early morning before the sun comes up. If...

Yo Tokin: I am impressed with your antenna mast there, being able to bring it up and down and tilt over. That's the way to do antennas work. This has a double edge to tho. Being able to access the antenna real quick and adjust and test can get you lost in space very quickly. One must document...

Hello All: One of the neat O keen O things if the analyzer sweeps a frequency band it will show the lowest VSWR frequency allowing one to adjust O matic to were you want it. Really neat for first time designed now up in the air antennas. Measuring the VSWR at the Antenna and then comparing it...

Hello r carl: That's normal for those antennas. Jay in the Great Mojave Desert.... "Next Gas 150 Miles"

Hello All: Noise in the radio can drive one to drinking and worst sometimes, I know I have trouble shot radio noise call RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) many many times over the years. And these RFI problems many aren't easy to fix. Good call on turning off the inverter and seeing the...

Hello SS: I have used RG6 in a pinch of no other coax available. But.... the Aluminum shield will not solder to the PL-259 connectors. You will need to crimp on a F connector for RG6 and then use a adapter from F-Male to PL-259 male. I used this many times and seen around a increased VSWR of...

Yes Avanti was a big deal back in the 60's and 70's people would drive all over to see a PDLII or Moonraker 4 or 6 go up Even custom Moonraker 8 elements went up, one not being to far from Henry Radio in Los Angles. The Penetrator 500 or SPT-500 usually arc over at the vertical element just as...

Hello Cll: Rodger dat! Ive done some antenna comparison testing and when I find one antenna significantly hotter than another by 6 to 10 dB I know Ive done something wrong. Some sort of little animal eating one of the long lengths of coax, or one antenna not assembled correctly. The best one...

Do you have measured field strength measurements to support this? Jay in the Great Mojave Desert.... "Next Gas 150 Miles"