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Yeah, be sure to give of some times and frequencies where we might be able to make contact.

I'd take a 64 ft tower over 1.5KW any day!

Oh, I understood. I wasn't aware that Wilson was so precise with regard to coax length and velocity factor such that a perfect 180* phase shift for "that" specific frequency was possible out of the box.

Cute, let me try again, how many feet of coax was between the antenna and radio?

How much coax was between the antenna and the analyzer?

My thought as well. You can turn it off/on by pushing the clarifier knob. Press and hold for two seconds.

If you consider that an 1.5KW amp is around $3K new. A Texas Star Sweet 16 or similar is ~$1K. That money can be spent on a LOT of tower(s) and you you can install/hang a plethora of antennas!

The beam will improve both receive and transmit. The amp only transmit, and if going into a poor antenna system it may not help on transmit either. Talking to yourself through your toaster gets old after a while.:whistle: Putting money into an antenna system will yield greater overall benefit.

Skip's dead.

Watcha trying to do with that there super type 'tenna?

It's OK, I am like a bad dipole, too obtuse to provide a good match.

I probably should have quoted the post that referenced the "resistance". It might have made a bad joke mediocre.

To the OP - as mentioned, for that short a run there will be no significant difference between the two types of coax. You may see a difference in SWR at the radio end if you were using a 100 foot run and comparing RG-8x and RG-213/LMR400. The additional loss in the RG-8x would show less reflect...

I see a lot of resistance, now how about reactance?

Turn on the NR too. What is the original mic you received with the radio - the Phantom or other?

I'd back the mic gain down on the mic to just where it modulates the carrier and use the radio mic gain to fine tune. I would need to check mine but I think mine is around 10 o'clock. That being said, if anyone says the Optima cannot sound "hot" on AM that pretty much answers that question.

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Once I get some time to sit back down in front of the radio I will review my notes. One change was the scope/meter settings based on this document - http://webpages.charter.net/n9ewo2/ic7300_scope.pdf I also know I have been riding the RF gain or attenuator a lot more while upping the scope...

Same, since we know the end goal is to pair this with a KL-203.

If it were my radio I would set it to 2 watts carrier/8 watts peak AM and 12 watts SSB PEP, but that is just me.