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John, thank you very much! 34' is way more discreet than the 67ish”. I will definitely take a look into the shorty 40

Good morning, Got a question regarding my 49:1 and wire length. Is there a wire length that is shorter than the 67' roughly that I'm currently using for multi band ? Im looking to get a short no tune 40m wire made up. The current 67ish feet im currently using is great but just looking to go short to...

Doug, POTA Is a great way to develop CW skills. The exchange is simple and there are a lot of stations to work - and they are very forgiving of newer/slower stations. Also, I need to work a park in NJ! 73, Mike, KL7MJ If you get the opportunity to do a park in New Jersey check out the parks in Nort...

Jim you nailed it! Most all of the interference was coming from my garage! Strange though it's only 10 meters. Im able to listen in on everything else interference free for the most part. Thank you for your help

Thank you for all of your advice! I will let you know what I come up with. Thankfully no interference on 40m for some reason and I can at least listen to the Morse as I learn

Thanks Jim, So I've tried removing the power supply and taking it completely out of the house to my deck same issue. I was actually looking through the instructions to see about grounding the unit and came up empty handed. Im assuming it should be as easy as running to the hardware store grabbing a ...

Good evening, so I bought my first HF radio and unfortunately I didn't look at many reviews. Im getting loads of interference all over the 10m band and I'm not sure if it's the transceiver or a setting I need to turn on. It's a xiegu x6100 using rg8x and I tried it on both xtenna and one of Tim Orti...

Just stopping in to introduce myself Brand new ham who got his license over 4 years ago and just starting to use it now. Actually haven't even used my HF rig yet. it's giving me tons of problems on the one band I can use ssb (10m) on but I'll figure it out eventually. I'm really looking forward to l...