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Thanks i switched it. Did I fry my Radio?

User error always a possibility. Just checking.

I don’t have one handy, but once I find one what will it tell me? I just ordered one.

I just installed an MFJ SURGE PROTECTOR and noticed that when I modulate on AM side the wattage drops on my meter. My SWRs are perfect. any ideas?

i just went with a little velcro and spent the day making cables LMR-240 soft!

you mean sans coax?

Save space. Economy of motion. Everything is right there. Could be misery memory from using stiff buryflex as jumpers, bored nothing better to do for a few weeks. Is the antenna function for field strength useful for anything? When would it change or be different from swr?

I have finally had it with the leftover Buryflex coax as jumpers….what a PITA. I am making some custom length jumpers with 90 degree pl259 connectors. Can I stack these like this? I have never felt the amp even get warm.

I am about 4 feet short of 6ga solid copper. Always something. How can i splice a few feet onto the end?

I tested continuity from a grounded 3-prong outlet to different plumbing pipes in the laundry room and they were all bound and continuous, even the sewer dwv pipe. The outside hose bib isolated by multiple sharkbite fittings that originates from the laundry room (pic) is bound and continuous. (...

the antenna uses the greenhouse as a support for the bracket and the pole is anchored in a custom t-bracket i embedded in cement in a cinderblock. The house is not visible but it is to the left out of frame. The coax (feedline?) comes down, enters pvc conduit then is buried about 10” as it heads...

This is a comprehensive resource for grounding, after reading it a few times, I have a better understanding of the path forward and will just go for it... I appreciate the responses from everyone for this common topic. Can I bind the grounding rod to the nearest house fixture which is instead...

move on, with thanks

Look, with all due respect, I DO NOt come here to be entertained. Period. This is a technically leaning forum with serious answers to technical situations loaded with electrical terms and concepts that I didn’t study in college or learn OJT. I, and am sure others less versed in the...

I cannot tell if you are being serious with your recommendations.

Yeah, very funny-har,har…….now for the rest of you, is there a practical reason to want to bulk up at the top of the antenna or down at the grounding rod attachment With any excess if any?

What do i do with any excess braided copper ? Bind it in the ground rod clamp?

Can I spray paint the stranded wire running up my pole? The pole and antenna are painted forrest green so it disappears against the trees, the highlights are showing, but it is all green. Braided copper I would afix on the backside with zip ties….the buryflex goes into pvc and runs underground...

That’s where I was today i think around noontime, LSB 38 and 37.

Whoa! Outstanding!