Those binding posts are great to have on hand for making quick and easy antennas. I made a linked 1/4-wave vertical that I keep with my 705. It works on 20m and 17m, since I wanted a WARC band if I'm QRP and the bands are busy during a contest. But the whole liked idea came from my build of the CaHR Mercury!
Some 50 years ago when my ham radio friend and I were wild and crazy teens, we found about 150' of old 300Ω twin lead and ran it from my Hallicrafters SR-150 xcvr, out the window, put it on the top of a picket fence and terminated it in a swamp. Guess what?...we talked with eastern Europe on 125 watts of TX power. Why this worked at all goes beyond reason.
Aloha Don, it’s good to see ya here in the comments. I have the XPA125B that came with my second G90 that I bought on base at JBPHH from a Ham that’s in the USAF and maybe he is changing duty stations but it was a super great deal. I was talking to another ham on the linked repeaters when this guy called me on the radio to say that he has a G90 with all the cables for FT-8 and the XPA125B 100w amp and the price was fantastic for the whole box. I just connect the coax cable to the amp, radio, and antenna without the CE-19 and manually go to the band that I want and it works just fine. I hope this is a safe way to operate the amp with my G90 that I have set for one watt only? 🤔
Nice ingenuity Chuck I use those binding posts for 1/4 wave verticals .. great pieces of kit
I see that 705 in there 👍
Those binding posts are great to have on hand for making quick and easy antennas. I made a linked 1/4-wave vertical that I keep with my 705. It works on 20m and 17m, since I wanted a WARC band if I'm QRP and the bands are busy during a contest. But the whole liked idea came from my build of the CaHR Mercury!
Some 50 years ago when my ham radio friend and I were wild and crazy teens, we found about 150' of old 300Ω twin lead and ran it from my Hallicrafters SR-150 xcvr, out the window, put it on the top of a picket fence and terminated it in a swamp. Guess what?...we talked with eastern Europe on 125 watts of TX power. Why this worked at all goes beyond reason.
That's awesome! thanks for watching
Get that vertical above the trailer and elevate the radial.
Yea I wanted to do that but just didn't have the time, but I will do that the next time!
Hey Chuck I didn't see a shot of the bike.
There was one , but not a good shot sorry!
Not sure why you are using a buffer on that amp. Nice video, Chuck.
Aloha Don, it’s good to see ya here in the comments. I have the XPA125B that came with my second G90 that I bought on base at JBPHH from a Ham that’s in the USAF and maybe he is changing duty stations but it was a super great deal.
I was talking to another ham on the linked repeaters when this guy called me on the radio to say that he has a G90 with all the cables for FT-8 and the XPA125B 100w amp and the price was fantastic for the whole box.
I just connect the coax cable to the amp, radio, and antenna without the CE-19 and manually go to the band that I want and it works just fine. I hope this is a safe way to operate the amp with my G90 that I have set for one watt only? 🤔
@@digitaldreamer5481 TO has some videos on that. I believe that is the case.
Great video Chuck! Your advertisers might be a little sketchy! Hi Hi 73
I can't seem to find the adapter for BNC to SO-239, do you have source?
What did u you say ,?