I had an argument with someone once in a KZfaq comments section when I pointed this out. He was adamant that I was wrong and no amount of trying to explain on my part would convince him otherwise!

👍thanks for sharing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

maybe he did see the vids on how to may one lol....

nice vid... getting the base up another 15 /20 should be perfect.... rx will be well up.. dunno if you have a variable RF gain on that.. with the cycle so good.. 120 miles hill to hill should be possible and continental contacts... especial to Germany (they like FM) and France easy... even Australia 🇦🇺 was done again... recently..

It depends of the other tx brand... In France we use AM since mid 80 and I prefer AM for mobile and local chatting. I use rarely FM except when I try to contact someone on the other of the channel 😁 or Germany.

So I need to install an electric fence without the fence charger. I'm sure there are better antennas out there and more matched for the frequency I'm transmitting on. 73

@@ronb6182 There's no telling when it comes to random antennas. This could have been anywhere between a mile and ten miles of wire. How many wavelengths? Who knows. Just on that day, at that point, it worked great.

@@josephcote6120 yes just like using the old fashion bed springs for a TV antenna. We had a bed that had bed springs. I also made copper coil antenna out of telephone wire. It had green red and yellow wires it was only three conductor phone wire. Our farm neighbor worked for the phone company years ago and dumped the black two conductor steel copper clad wire and also the wire that hooks to the telephone we would untangle it and bring it home. My nephew made wire animals and I had coiled the wire and attached it to the antenna clip that clipped on the back of the TV. It picked up VHF real good for an indoor antenna that was analog days it don't work on these digital TV's not good you might get a broken picture but no sound. 73

right because mast through the coil!

Yes there would be lose on the voltage in a very small gauge but you could calculate it and increase it for the said length.

If possible you could then remove the battery & that would help with the weight lift of the thin cable. Just think full wave CB antenna for a couple of quid if you already have a drone. The coax would exit at the top floor so no weight for the drone to lift that. I know I'm going to get slatted for this crazy idea!

Totally agree. I've got 3 Hawkins and they are excellent! Well made and work much better than home made wire antennas!

So òn stock antennas are these radios any good

Hi I’m new to all this. If I bought the TX what thunderbolt would be best for me. I would use it outside on a fishing pole outside my camper van. Thank you

And miraculous,, I think Yaesu would have made it possible 50 yrs ago

Just look on KZfaq how to make the T2LT antenna. You can do it yourself. Its not that complicated.

Very low modulation and muffled sound, you're right 😁

Sundays Pmr 446 that should say

Thanks very much for giving me a beautiful memory recall! 55 years ago my uncle used to take us up Rivington Pike kite flying after we'd made them out of plastic bags and bamboo sticks. Sometimes they flew! 😂

Not really a T2LT, smaller diameter coil with a lot more turns.

​@@philthehmk8752 The coil is a coaxial choke and nothing more, also the rest is exactly an T2LT. You can build chokes in different diameters even with more turns. Don't be fooled by what you see here on KZfaq regarding the T2LT. There is not a single video showing how to build the improved T2LT. Only those cheap, poorly performing versions are shown. The Thunderbolt SSD 12 shown here can even be improved. Electrically, this SSD12 is excellent, but when you look at the efficiency, the radiated power and the reception quality, there is still a lot to improve.

This exactly. The coax is wound into a choke.

I don't know how carbon fibre compares to fibreglass, but my base antenna is a solid copper wire 103 inches long fed through the middle of a fibreglass fishing pole. I think any non-metallic material can work fine as a mast.

It’s 1.1 across all the uk 40

BNC From the radio to a pl259

@@RingwayManchester thank you

@@RingwayManchester hi is that a male connector

You don't need to but you should do.

Probably very well

It’s the calling channel

Was always channel 14 for calling around here back in the 80s

Its full of idiots who can't be bothered to move to one of the other completely empty channels. It never used to be like that. This is what spoils CB today.

​​@@adamhousden6349not the same frequency... Ch 19 with Cobra 148 gtl is 27.185 MHz and AM mode

LOL 🤡