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    Posted: 20 Jun 2013 at 10:00pm
Originally posted by techntrek

So is that a DX contest weekend again?  

BTW, studying for my General right now.  I had the Tech tests licked every time I tried them on qrz.com, need to read up more for the General.  I'd like to do both on the same day.



Yes, contest weekend. Passing the tests are one thing, knowing the material is most important and I WILL quiz you after you passWink
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Posts: 9062 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Jun 2013 at 10:48pm
LOL.  Currently reading through a borrowed ARRL Handbook and taking more General practice tests.  Won't be able to test until at least August though. 
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Posts: 9062 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Jun 2013 at 8:37am
I was reading through someone's site on mobile HF installations (I'm not planning on mobile HF, just absorbing...) and their section on RV mounting had a pod at the top of the page:
 
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Posts: 1447 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Jun 2013 at 11:20am
HF mobile is a gas! I have spent hours in traffic jams in conversation (QSO) to exotic places. It beats sitting in the truck getting mad. I have a radio for mobile HF that has dsp, and that helps a bunch. Lots of noise out there!
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Maybe you'll talk me into it eventually, but I need a decent HF transceiver at home first.  I'm seriously considering SDR for that.  I like cutting edge. 
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Posts: 1447 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Jun 2013 at 10:12pm
I have a Ten-Tec Jupiter for home, and use an old fashioned 80 meter flat top dipole fed with ladder line and a roller inductor tuner. I am not a big gun on the DX bands but I rag chew with the best of them.

The Jupiter can be run from software(I normally do) or by twisting knobs like us old timers always had to in the old days.
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Posts: 113 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Jun 2013 at 5:25pm
Originally posted by techntrek

Maybe you'll talk me into it eventually, but I need a decent HF transceiver at home first.  I'm seriously considering SDR for that.  I like cutting edge. 



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Posts: 9062 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Jun 2013 at 9:19pm

I've heard good things about Ten Tec.

Definitely not cheap, but for the advantages the Flex-3000 isn't too bad.  It would be nice if it covered all bands and didn't stop at 6m. 

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Posts: 1447 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Jun 2013 at 10:15am
We all have our own wants and needs.  i do little on VHF these days.  I used to do a lot on 2M sideband and 6m sideband, but hardly ever go there any more.  It would be a waste for me to have an all band radio.  I do fine on a HF only rig.
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