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I love my dog more than I love some family members.

Like Will Roger's said."be happy your only getting half the government you pay for". Thats the problem with price increases. Once is never enough for burocracy.

I did something like that. When I was working I saved $5 bills. Whenever I got one I put it away. Didn't count it or looked at it for well over a year. Maybe 2 years. Well, visiting the local gun shop they had Socom 16 up on the rack. I went home and counted it up. $1200. I dont any longer have...

I can see your point as far as it being a bargain for 10 years of enjoying our hobby. I use my rig everyday. But its the upfront cost, $50 for the fcc, $15 for the testing . How many non active hams are there ? I know $65 bucks won't send me to the poor house . TODAY. What about 10 years from...

Apples and onions. I put my shack together on the perverble shoestring. I enjoy the hobby greatly and think that this increase will impact the number of new hams. This is just another fleecing. Whats next? Arrl membership down so they raise the subscription to $75 a year? Its bad enough that one...

MFJ-4416C, BATTERY VOLTAGE BOOSTER,13.8VDC, 25A,INPUT 9-13.8V Thanks for all of the help. I think this will do the trick. I like that it has jumpers to limit the amount of battery discharge. 9, 10 or 11 volts and it will shut off. Please keep in mind this will only be used under emergency...

I'm a fan of overkill as well. I would rather to have it and not need it than need it and not have it

I'm a little confused with the carrier signals. The owners manual says Tx (100watts) .. 23 amps. Geeze, what could draw 23 amps at 100 watts? Reason I'm asking is I found a quality converter that will give out 13.6 volts. Max of 15 amps. I think its output is 200 watts. I dont use am. I do use...

I'm still working this out. Getting closer to deciding what I can use. I have a pertinent question though. If my radio pulls 23 amps, at 100 watts, im assuming thats a full carrier, how many amps will it draw at 100 watts on ssb?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/254375574086 Something like this. But I would need for it to handle 23 amps

I found some dc stepups on fleebay. They have some that go from 9.5- 12 input to 13.8 output. Personally, i have a self imposed moratorium on buying anything Chinese. But this may solve my challenge. Now to find a product made in Japan with Chinese parts.

I'm thinking about and looking for a variable dc to dc converter. Something that i can manually adjust for 13.8 volts. Just really became aware of dc to dc converters. I completely forgot about stepups and step-down.

Think I found some info.http://www.chargingchargers.com/converters/converters.html

Moving the batteries would be near impossible for me. I could put a 12 volt marine battery next to my rig and see how that works. But just a question . Is there a way, a device that I can buy that may be able to up the voltage to required levels at the radio. Or am I challenging the laws of...

yes, i mis spoke. I have an inverter to run the household items. Thanks CK and 2N. I didn't think the 10 gauge would have that much loss. I really only need around 40'. I could also go with a 40' run of 8 or 6 gauge. Keep it just for emergency power for my radio. But now for the Elephant in...

Thanks six shooter. I like my 1200. Its my first ham rig. I'm going to do some searching for a booster. I did a quick search and found some elcheapos on Amazon . They only had a max of 3 amp output. The radio needs at least 23 amp to operate at full power. So says the manual. I kind of have a...

I was going to operate as 1E this field day. After I hooked up my ftdx 1200 to my battery bank I realized my radio shuts off when transmitting. Here are the particulars. I have 10 Trojan T 105 6 volt batteries. They are 225 amp hour @ 20 hrs. They are wired in series and parallel, making a 12...

Thank you. I made 167 ft8 contacts on field day.

this is really my first June field day. I'm operating as 1E. I have a question. Should I only target other field day qso's or do all contacts count for points?