The easy thing is for me to swing by your place with my antenna analyzer and dummy load and we can sweep your antenna(s) and cables and see what’s what. Downside: I am traveling and don’t get back unt

Several points: 1. It takes about 2 minutes to sweep a VHF/UHF antenna on both 2m and 70cm, so it’s not like it’s a big deal. 2. I’m not only *willing* to help folks with antenna issues, I’m *delighte

There’s a lot of emcomm infrastructure in the US that consists of 2m fm repeaters. A lot of them get light use, or virtually no use at all. The folks who want the spectrum have a lot of money. It make

Look, folks, you’ve got to make tinfoil hats out of *tin foil*, not aluminum foil. Aluminum won’t block the mind control rays! Of course, it’s hard to find genuine tin foil now, because it’s been disp

RCW 46.61.667 appears to have been repealed in 2017 and replaced. So probably handing that to the nice police officer is not going to get you much. But if the cop insists it’s still in effect I would

Powerwerx makes a little tester - functionally the same as the one Lynn showed us, but much smaller as it just has a single dual color LED and the LED is mounted right through a weather hood on the ba

Schedule allowing I would take the class for sure. -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

That’s one of the cases I considered using. The really good news is that, once you build a box into a rack mount case, you can pretty easily put the entire setup into a different rack mount case just

None of these cases are waterproof but the SKB case I’ve got actually has a gasket, so when the end caps are on it’s probably rainproof. I have no plans to submerge it so weather resistant is fine. Th

The radio, head, power supply, speaker all have mounts that can be screwed directly to the shelves. The pwrgate I will mount with velcro on the shelf and on the pwrgate. The SLA battery will be held i

I’m totally up for giving people lessons on powerpole installation. I have already found 127 of the nearly infinite array of ways to get it wrong. How many folks want to participate? Howard, when woul

If we do something tomorrow afternoon (all are welcome) then you will be able to make progress to show us on Thursday. So how about tomorrow, say, 1pm, at the club shack in Carnation? -p W7PFB 73, Don

I’m glad I was able to help. I will be happy to do as many little Powerpole Elmer sessions as needed to get everyone up to speed on how to install Powerpoles. Folks need only ask. Having made many of

I don’t think I see the email message you’re suggesting I should see. -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

I think ‘intrepid’ might be a better word than ‘crazy’. But the folks headed to that rock are *seriously* intrepid. It’s all well and good to say “Oh, helicopters are going to drop us onto the rock, n

Does anyone have contact info (e.g. email) for Richard Gibbs KA7AEF? -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

I like building antennas, so count me in. That said, you may find that depending on what band/bands you’re interested in, and how much gain or f/b ratio you’re trying to get, if the yagi is for 2m or

Somewhere I have two articles on the Quagi, both supplied I think by Dan when I expressed interest back when Dan showed his at a meeting. I also have a Quagi UFO (Un Finished Object). -p W7PFB 73, Don

Thanks for sharing your lists, Mel! My comments on emergency bags in general, and not at all directed at Mel’s arrangement: * It’s really worth identifying what scenarios you’re trying to address *bef

For HF work I’m of mixed minds about N connectors. I’d prefer to use them but I’m guessing you’ll find any HF rig has an SO-239 on the back, so you either need coax with a PL-259 or else you need a N