Thanks. I will check those out.
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I believe too that Amateur Radio is not the only option that we got today.
Who's this guy?
Good grounding is essential to having an exceptional noise free signal. I have seen your installation and it looks top shelf to me. A ground is an excellent method of shielding the desired signal from the undesired signal. And your radiated signal will have a pattern that resembles the pattern in the ARRL manual for your particular antenna.I don't know if it's worth the trouble on 2 m or not. I did it and a local radio guy said it was well done, but it might have been just as good without. I bought the braided grounding strap from AES, and made my own connectors with copper sheet, and soldered the strap to the copper. FOr the lip mount, I grounded the antenna mount to the hatch, the hatch to the hinge and a strap that crosses the hatch to body interface. If I get ambitious, or run out of projects, I'm going to apply the same treatment and ground the body to the frame and the body and frame to the engine. Then if I ever pass the General exam (book = BORING), I'll be ready to do a fancy HF install.
I do know, that for lower frequencies above 10 meters, it becomes progressively important to have better grounding.
So my wife and you are in a race?Very Cool-What does that mean in terms of the General exam? I'm slowly plowing through the material, but if I could challenge the test, and forget the code, I could put that effort in overdrive.
Thanks for the update, Ron.
Next is picking some equip and waiting for the call sign to become active. More toys to play with
cheers,
george.