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With this Chinese stuff, you never know... but I will stick to my old saying that if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. Hope all of you get your money back. 73, Brett

Man, this is an old thread. lol 73, Brett

Man, 160... I only dream of it. lol Take a look here: http://www.balundesigns.com/content/Wire%20Lengths%20for%204%20and%209-1%20ununs.pdf There is other stuff out there, but I am personally running a 4:1 for my delta loop, and a 9:1 for an end fed that gets me to 80 meters. Both seem to...

I've heard of a lot of guys running the EARCHI end fed. It is around 50 bucks, and is set up to use your coax shield as counterpoise. Really considering one for my go-box project, but haven't pulled the trigger yet. You might want to check out Balun Designs web site. Bob Rumsey makes some...

Possibly, but it's going to put him in too close of proximity to the antenna. That will throw SWR off, and if he uses the amplifier, will make his head glow at night. ;) Should work ok for monitoring, I would guess. I DO like how the box came together... looks really nice. 73, Brett

I was thinking that he showed a pic of it with a Firestik attached. Not going to work very well that way, but it is what it is. As others have stated, you need a vertical antenna for local talk. 73, Brett

I used to use a hand ptt switch, but after playing around with my vox settings, I am "hands free" now. Takes a bit of fiddling to get the sensitivity and hang time, but once set, it works great. Just remember to turn off your mic or Vox when you are going to sneeze. Or fart. Or when your xyl...

I've never seen one of these, but it looks really nice. What transistors inside? 73, Brett

Good info, Tib. I sold mine a while back, but it did have the 11 meter selection on the rig, and only covered 27-27.5 as you mentioned. 73, Brett

LOL... good memories! My first was a Browning "Brownie" 23 channel mobile, very similar to your Pace. Mag mount on a pizza pan, mounted to some sort of tripod, and an old battery powering the rig. I didn't get out very far. Dad later bought me a power supply (mostly because my Mom didn't...

I'm doing a ham go box, but may add a CB just for the extra coverage. I have an old Uniden Pro 520XL that is nice and compact. Also have my FT-891, MFJ power supply, LDG Z-11 Pro tuner, and TYT 8900 vhf/uhf. Went with this box for the rigs...

Old pic, but still have all the rigs.

I've never played on a 940, but hear that they are pretty great. I have an FTdx-3000, and love the receive on it. Also has rx out, so I run a panadapter from an RSP-1. Really a cool setup. Still, I love to listen to my old tube rigs... a pair of Drake C line "twins", Kenwood TS-520, and...

Robyn T-240D, Cobra 139XLR, Cobra 2000GTL, and Galaxy DX-2547. Still have all but the DX-2547. The 139XLR is probably my favorite, but I like all of them a lot. 73, Brett

That one seems to be a winner. Discussed a lot here on the forum... I almost bought one, but when I got my Palstar tuner, it had a meter built in. I'm going to bet money you are going to be very happy with your Daiwa meter. 73, Brett

I think they are neat. Old school look. My Panther lights up the meter in red when I key it up. Had mine converted to a 4 pin, and like I said, added 36-40 so I could actually talk on sideband. lol Rig looks a lot like this one:

lol... thanks. I have an old Pierce Simpson 23 channel mobile. it is crystal based, not pll. Modified it to have 36-40 by adding crystals, which was way more money than I should have paid. Really kind of a cool old rig, though. 73, Brett

I'm guessing more stable than crystals over time, cheaper due to less crystals. You can probably mod it for 40. I seem to remember there being a kind of "tweener" stage when a lot of the 23 channel rigs went PLL, and then all the 40 channel PLL rigs came out a bit later. Also remember there...

Yeah, that's the one. Lol 73, Brett

Yeah, I was teasing you. But you do have quite a farm going! 73, Brett