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Turning watts into heat.

Only joking! I don't think the benefit of having a less flexible antenna is worth the cost. In order of rigidity, what I would run: Ratshack 102" stainless tapered whip 96" fiberglass whip Lowes special copper tube Saw the plans for the Lowes special antenna online. 10 ft piece of...

Sooo... What does this have over a regular 102" whip exactly?

Just a word to the wise. Coils are lossy and produce negative gain (loss of watts in the form of heat), while the straight unloaded 102 inch whip is a 0 to +2 dBi gain. Loaded antennas are typically a -1 to -6 dBi loss depending on the coil wire thickness, stinger length, and overall design...

Punch cards are no longer in use. However, probably 70% of amateur radio operators still use morse code. SSB and CW are the two most used modes on amateur radio. Vacuum tube based amplifiers are the extreme majority of the market, cornering probably 97% of the market. Digital modes are...

I'll give you $40 for it, you can double your money. :laugh:

I'm not offering anything as I'm a poor pre-law student, but here's some cheap suggestions: Package of Amphenol SO239 or PL259 connectors. Who doesn't use these? Jumpers of RG8X or LMR240 Handhelds (Wouxuns maybe?) Deep cycle batteries Solar panels HV transformers Solder Soldering stations...

Tubes, morse code, digital, etc are all used in amateur radio. Thus, you should know about them.

My setup: Behringer V63M condenser (about $60 on closeout) Behringer UB802 mixer (About $50 on closeout) Q-Mic arm (Ebay, ~$75) -20 db attenuator ($15) Misc cords & adapters ($35) I run that all into the PHONE-IN on my FT101EE. Nothing but solid reports of crystal clear audio. I...

Switch to a 102" whip in a solid mount and blow some doors off. :D

Are you running a "peaked and tuned" radio? Clipped limiters cause overmodulation, spurious emissions, dirty outputs, and an overall bad / distorted output. Modulation should not exceed 105% with you screaming into the microphone. I dial mine to be at around 90-95% or so at casual...

Wow. This is one of the cleanest station setups I've seen in a long time.

The FT270R is not your atypical handheld, it's definitely designed as more of a "Vertex Standard" radio. The battery life blows the VX5/6/8/8 out of the water, and it's not excessively complex to operator. It's not fragile either, I've dropped mine a fair share of times. It can receive...

Why don't you get a couple Yaesu FT270Rs and call it a day? VHF does better over longer distances anyways.

I just assumed it was another ~7 ft "monkey made" style loaded antenna with huge coils and fragile bullshit bolted on.

:huh: So the "Rod of God" is 18 feet tall and the coils and caps are the matching network? If that's the case, I rescind all comments, as the antenna is clearly not a mobile antenna, thus, cannot be measured against other mobile antennas as most states cap out your maximum height from the...

In short, yes. In long form, the "Rod of God" is a gimmick because it's almost entirely coil. Coils do a great job at turning wattage into waste. Now, in theory, a 1/2 wave antenna would have a superior radiation pattern over that of a 1/4 wave. However, a 1/2 wave antenna vs a 1/4 wave...

With my FT101, for PSK31, I run my laptop headphone jack into my mixer, then to the phone patch in. I run the speaker-out straight into my laptop. The downside is it's not auto-keying, and I drift a bit due to the age of the rig.

You need a dual-band antenna. They do make dual-band J-poles, however, if yours is not one of them, then it will obviously not work. It all depends what you want to do. Higher gain antennas are taller, and produce a low angle of radiation. To work well, they must be mounted 30+ ft above...

I would highly recommend just making a hole and going the solid-mount approach, it guarantees a good ground plane. But, a quality triple magnet mount should do the job.