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Redneck engineering manpack
(lemmy.radio)
An ice fishing box to house my ic-7000, an atu, a battery pack. Very crude but solid rack made of pine board I had laying around. This is cobbling of the best sort.
Love it, great job!
If I had to provide points of possible improvement:
Source: I'm environmentally damaged from doing GMDSS installs for four years.
Which antenna are you using? What's your TX wattage?
There's negligible advantage in loss going from pl259 to N connectors on HF. You don't have the kind of losses you do on VHF and especially UHF. The only time N is really nice is when you need an intrinsically weatherproof connector -but this is mounted inside the weatherproof box.
If you want slightly better loss specs AND a more convenient, quicker connector, BNC is great. But PL259, as I said, is fine.
Didn't have N connectors. They're so fiddly to solder. And rg58 is what I have so that is what I use.
It's an IC7000, so it can do 100w on HF. I will use various antennas. But all of them built from bits and pieces in the garage. Mostly eflw, dipols or verticals I think.