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Ahh, what a deal. God knows how much we value him. "God go with you, greatheart."

Look here: https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/tip-over-tower-wooden-homebrew.74530/post-232566

The problem with the 108" is it's too long. Also, if it is a yagi you're building the driven element length is affected by the parasitic elements on the boom with it, their diameters, the spacing between, and proximity to the earth, and other influential structures nearby. Some of these same...

Two of my seven HTs are GMRS/FRS only.

Makes sense. OTOH, 'sun' spots effect the conditions that promote propagation, and the 'sun' (solar) storms are effecting the conditions that are stifling propagation. So, I, unfortunately, still find this solar cycle to be terrible so far for radio. When -if- it gets better before it ends l...

Thanks for the review. I do not have this HT, but I do own the first generation that some, it is said, "sent back". I did not send mine back. It works well, easy to program, l get good reports on the audio, it has respectable volume, seems of good weight in my hand, and has given me no reason...

I read that, too. Whether it's true or not, I don't know. I do know this cycle, so far, has been pretty weak by comparison to any others I've experienced. I'm not on the radio as much as I have been before, but when I can, the pickings are mostly slim to none. On all bands of interest to me, at...

Gotta catch them CMCs!

For all this you earn the coveted antenna homebrewing award:

I had not noticed a difference when I also replaced the original whip with a SS whip. It could be that my reason for doing it was because the original had been broken and I wanted to get back on the air not paying attention to any improvement except for being operational again.

Caliman409, please do as you wish. However, I personally hope you'll hang around. I've gotten my nose bloodied a few times, but love it here. We don't always agree with each other, but we all learn from each other. Writing things down is nowhere as near effective as having a personal...

We agree, and, yet, not everyone can reverse out of their current setup and make a second purchase. And, actually, the OP was asking advice about whether adding a SS whip would maximize his current gear. Instead, he got numerous telling him how comparatively bad his antenna is, and "what's the...

They told me it wouldn't work, but it did. They told me it wouldn't work well, but it did. They told me something else would work better, but I wasn't using something else. They told me I was crazy while my logbooks filled up. They wrote some math hieroglyphics on the internet to prove me wrong...

DB, not vague at all. We've seen other phenomena that defies the general perception of things as they relate to the earth and antenna types. Notice the overlaid models (thank you, Marconi) of the AP and A99, both 1/2 wave antennas of different types, at 65' upper tip height. The AP clearly has...

@DB Perhaps there is additional capacitance to the earth, it being closer to the antenna, that benefits the model... At 30' and free space such capacitance is not influencing the outcome? Maybe adding a slightly higher value capacitor to the 30' & FS models to see what happens might give...

I have found 43 mix to be the most useful across the HF spectrum, but I've seen other types recommended for various uses. The T200-2 is often recommended for 9:1...

I'm slow, too, but it's old age.

Let's say your got into your Concord jet and flew to the Southern USA. There you ran into your shack to work those conditions you saw on the QTH Europe map. Alas, they aren't there... why, because the atmosphere isn't the same everywhere at a given moment, and the conditions are different...

I use the one that when I turn on my radio if I hear people I've got propagation, if it's silent, I don't have propagation. Never used those maps, but it seems to me that if the colors represent varying conditions it makes perfect sense that they would change based on where you are at. There...

In the attached photos you'll see two different styled baluns, both 4:1 transformers. I do not recall the mix of the two sleeved toroids; I built it 3 or 4 years ago to use for a low band 5:1 (it worked out being a 4:1) as the feedpoint transformer for a loop on the ground receive antenna...