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Jonny 290 posted:and surprise! cut to the nearest inch and installed within 1m of design height, it resonates at 6.2 mhz instead of 7.2 I have a Jetstream fan dipole kit strung up, but haven't put it to the final height, or slapped the analyzer on it yet. The spacers that came with it are maybe 5" long at most, and I'm wondering if I should just replace them with some longer pieces of CPVC for separation, before I even try to get the thing tuned up. I haven't dealt with tuning a fan dipole yet, so I'm expecting to take it down about 500 times before getting it anywhere close to tuned.
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In other news I got my KX3 back from repair today (a couple of the knobs were a bit unresponsive) Slapped on my sideKX's on and was farting around with the power meter I picked up in the meantime:  I'm also beyond hyped to get outside and get this guy put up:  Need a mast tho
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Apr 29, 2015 19:02
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Sniep posted:oh man that ammeter is hella cheaper than the one i got.. i got fleeced The one powerwerx sells is ridiculously overpriced.. $50 or something.
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Apr 29, 2015 20:32
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Jonny 290 posted:those radios are so gd pretty. i'm not a cw dude tho so an elecraft would be wasted on me It's making me want to learn CW tbh. Although I did squeak out some nice DX last summer, working Hungary with 5W on SSB.
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Apr 29, 2015 21:05
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Well this is promising...  Aw hell no. Got a little work to do on this thing. It's way too high for 20, 18 is almost non-existent, 15 has a dip, but nowhere near useful, and 10m is way too short, too. 
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Apr 30, 2015 00:03
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Jonny 290 posted:incidentally, the moment of torque of a filled liter water bottle on the end of a 24 foot pole as you try to lift it overhead and drop it between a fork in a tree limb is pretty impressive I had the same idea, but I had a leftover fishing reel, and used an extra antenna insulator! Worked like a charm.
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Apr 30, 2015 00:11
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we have storms rolling through and the new crop of skywarn spotters have the roger beeps enabled on their pooofuuungs the quality of these skywarn nets gets worse and worse each year QSL QSL QSL 73 73 73
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May 3, 2015 22:51
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I spent a few days this winter building a homebrew buddipole. I finally got a chance to get it on a mast and an analyzer this weekend, and it was a complete disaster. The thing was not resonant on HF, so I borrowed a guy's analyzer that went up to 300mhz or so. The stupid thing was resonant on 119MHz, even with the telescoping whips all the way out, so I think there was a short somewhere. BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD! I had a backup end-fed vertical that I put up in a tree, but HF was awful on Saturday as well.
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May 11, 2015 17:42
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2m is wide open up here in MN/WI/IA today... I just keyed up a repeater 170mi away.
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May 28, 2015 15:48
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Jonny 290 posted:holy poo poo you aren't kiddin Yeah, that map pretty much confirms the direction I was able to hit the repeater. Saint Paul, MN to Tomahawk, WI. Edit: It would be cool if the APRS site could overlay frontal boundaries: 
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May 28, 2015 16:38
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Sniep posted:yeah for real you guise I really love my F6A. I've had it for years and I've replaced the case on it etc. When I was a kid I wanted a TH-78a and that thing was a brick. with tri-band antenna everybody's got:  I've also got a shorty for when I don't need the range or don't want to get poked in the side wearing it on my belt  swoon 
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Jul 13, 2015 02:14
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Sniep posted:yeah i hear a lot of people swear by those kenwood F6 HTs... know a bunch of people who have 'em we have a couple repeaters here in the Minneapolis area but not a ton of activity.
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Jul 13, 2015 02:30
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If you're up early enough 20 is open to Australia
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are all Benchers terrible or just the one you got? I want to finish learning CW (started when I got licensed back in 7th grade, but never finished). Benchers seem like the paddle that everybody has.. tempted to pick one up.
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Jul 16, 2015 21:05
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Sniep posted:xpost from hobby thread what weather station is this? I want to replace the junk I've got now since the receiver unit crashes when my raspberry pi is reading data at the same time it's getting data from the sensors.
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Nov 20, 2015 04:04
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Sniep posted:middlin tier acurite pro setup Awesome. How are you going to get the data off it? My receivers are plugged into a raspberry pi and I use weewx to upload to CWOP, Weather Underground, and APRS-IS, but the displays have been super janky. This might be within my price range!
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Jonny 290 posted:^^ such an ill setup, i love it Will ladderline work OK if just run along the ground? I've got a similar length run, around my house, through a buried PVC conduit, to the only spot I can string up wire in my yard. I could also probably not run it through PVC if that helps. I keep wanting to get an ATU and just feed a 40m or 80m doublet with ladderline instead of dinking around with this fan dipole.
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