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I run a sirio P5000 with the fold over lever on a permanent mount on the roof of my old Ram. Works great. Only dump around 200 watts into it but swr is great. Good bandwidth also. My mount is a Diamond or comet... think it's a comet so-239 (uhf). Its been several years since install. All good.
I have run all three flavors and have all three I rotate in and out of the lineup.
The old orange face is fine but covers only to 26.000. For most this isn't a big deal but having coverage to 24.000 (for 12 meters) is nice in my opinion. The DX and "CD" offer this.
I currently run a CD in the...
My old 465 has an Expo kit. It has 39 above 40 and 39 below 1. It has one channel of overlap. Channel 1 in "high" toggle is 27.405. Channel 40 in low is 26.965. Other than that it works great. Opened clarifier as well. Great old rig...same as PC122
It's takes a certain kinda buyer.. I agree for $600 you could pick up a used ham rig for ssb/freeband work and a power mic & Cobra 29 and with a little tune for AM.. This would be a better option in my opinion for around the same $.
14 to 14.5 is a safe range to stay in. If you're getting big voltage drops when keying up you should look at a better power supply. Sounds like it has poor regulation or is simply to small for the radio...
I tried for about a half hour on 12 m today. No luck. 100 w and a vertical hard to get through the pile. I will continue to try and should succeed eventually on 10 or 12.. This will be a new one for me. Looks like they will be active for a couple weeks. I might have better luck after a few days..
I went through this about 10 yrs back with my old next door neighbor. I installed an old Bencher YA-1 low pass filter. I also knocked on his door and offered to install a high-pass pass filter in his TV antenna coax. I explained I had installed the "newest latest and greatest" filter I could...
I looked at this on Walcott and it has button for GNF. ? It's a "Gabble Noise Filter" wtf is that?
According to the definition of Gabble:
"talk rapidly and unintelligibly; utter meaningless sounds"
So does flipping this GNF on channel 6 allow one to finally understand what these guys are...
Last night was rough. Temp dropped to 16F with 40mph winds. Worked til 11 pm outside getting the lights back on. Of course the winds took down a tree in an easement (not truck accessible). Was in my hooks on poles for a few hours. Happy to get home to a hot shower and warm bed.
It's dropping to...
I remember occasional late night openings to the east coast sometimes lasting to 2am or later. That was last cycle. This cycle I haven't heard any...unless I missed them while sleeping?
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