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In my short history in the hobby, bad coax and a noisy power supply have been my two main sources of issues (not including operator error like the tuner I let the smoke out of lol)

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What a great read. Thanks for taking the time to post this Chris.

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I still have this. FREE to a good home if anyone would like it.

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Well good. I’m broke anyway!

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Jeff, I’m not sure how I missed your reply but I didn’t catch the notification. Congrats on your ticket and I think you made a great choice with the 7200.

For other equipment suggestions, my personal flavor (originally recommended to me by Chris K4HC) is as follows:
-LDG Auto tuner like the AT-100 Pro II
-130′ dipole (or as long as you can get it up to 130) fed with 450 or 300 ohm ladder line run as close to the tuner as possible (if not directly to the tuner)
-You can do one of two things:
–Wind a choke balun (google “ugly balun”) yourself with six turns of coax, and connect the shield of the coax to one side of ladder line and center conductor to the other.
–Or connect the ladder line to store bought 1:1 current balun which will transition you into coax to run into the house.

This setup will let you work every band from 6 meters through 80 meters. You may have to experiment with ladder line length to achieve optimum results.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by W4US.

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Mark, you probably know this already, but you can import directly into Chirp from repeaterbook and radioreference. That’s what I’ve been doing.

In case Scott’s file leaves you unfulfilled, lol.

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Jeff, I think you are right on with the choices you listed. What kind of radio and tuner are you using? If you haven’t bought your tuner yet, many of those have a meter built in. Then you may only need a meter for VHF/ UHF which is less expensive.

Just a thought.
Fred

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So tempting. I may hit you up after 13 colonies. As little as I get to chase DX, I need all the help I can get!

Great price too Cameron. That’s awesome of you to offer it up here.

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Hi Jeff,
Congrats on the purchase of your 7200. It’s an awesome rig and the built in interface works great so don’t worry! Have you received yours yet?

I was basically swapping to the Signalink out of pure laziness. When swapping from SSB phone over to JT 65, the 7200 requires a few extra menu button presses when switching modes than what is required by the Signalink. I also like the physical knobs for TX and RX on the Signalink, though all of those levels can be manipulated with the sliders in the WSJT-X program.

What modes are you planning on using on the 7200? I’ve had the IC-718, the IC-7000, and now the IC-7200 and I have to say the 7200 is the perfect ratio of simplicity vs features for the way I use it.

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Nice mods!!!

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Congrats on passing Extra Class Layman! Hope the CD’s helped you out. Richie, you need to jump on this!!!

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I have decided to keep this Signalink for use on my 7200 instead of the built in interface.

Thanks for looking!

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Did your bro come home with an Elecraft? I heard you mention he was interested in one.

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Thanks for sharing John.
I hope this is a good thing for TT/ Alpha.
I had not heard until now that Boafeng had acquired Tokyo Hy-Power.
https://factualradio.wordpress.com/tag/tokyo-high-power-labs/

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The Conover Ham Radio Trifecta! That’s great you guys are all hams. We’ll listen up for him.

Tell him careful not to spill that Kool-Aid! haha Wish I could afford one because I’d be drinking that stuff too.

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