I was operating from my son's HOA house with an off center fed dipole cut for 30m, around 47 feet total fed at one third point with ladder line. The longer side put near peak of rafters, straight from

Doc Many of us enjoy the ubitx from hfsignals. The latest version requires less assembly. Covers 80 to 10 meters. Easily the lowest cost for multiband. Less than a used K2. Curt

Indeed. Many of these folk with interesting end fed wire solutions have a power supply feeding a rig. Attached to AC mains. Well they have an extensive conductor already on the ground terminal. Ground

Leon You can apply to join any io group, no parents required. Many rig projects have their own group. Difficulties with rig building is rather common, so check in there for help. ID parts can be a cha

Appreciated OM. All of us began once, let's insure Markus gets the help he needs. If we can guide him into fixing it, then we will accomplish something. Yes he needs more than a few inches of wire, an

Markus Ham Radio is a life long learning permit. Even though my boss considers me an EE, I am still with you learning. You need a headphone that has wires that properly connect. I am thinking traditio

Doc I use an 80m efhw as one of my home station antennas. The middle is over a tree limb at 30 some feet. The coax end is up about 15 feet, maybe only 5 feet on the far end. I think the inverted V hel

Geert Relative to the filter, measure its response somehow. If you have a nanoVNA that will work. But since you have a rig, use audio software like spectogram to see the pass and just with received no

Doc If you do mobile operating mostly in place something like the wolf river coil could work. I just received mine and quality is quite good. Curt

Doc If you will rarely qsy across a band, check out wolf River coils. Manual tune version of a Tarheel. The smaller one will do 40 and 20 meters, works with a standard mobile whip. Curt

Doc Are you getting signals with your regen? Curious why you ask about ground? Curt

Doc usually regen receivers do not require an earth connection or a very long antenna. I have a homebrew ozark patrol regen here, I just recall using a decent length of wire. Getting the gimmick corre

I don't know asking the community to price kits is dangerous. Me places more value on unassembled kits, my bias. Its a unique treasure, I have one. Somewhere between 60 and 80 dollars if not packaged.

I think possibly some is fewer big stations, with big antennas, are doing CW with the rise of ft8 ft4. Sometimes I operate successfully events at qrp, lots of cw activity there. I did operate my ft817

Geert You may have a huge cheering section. I suggest taking this off line with email to Johnny, and helping him with an international shipping suggestion and its cost. Perhaps he can quietly sell you

Even arrl is offering a efhw kit for 40m and up. Myantennas also sells them. Qrp only recipes are out there. They can be erected other ways besides horizontal but the feed end does need to be elevated

Doc If you can sufficiently hide your home antenna, you won't want to be frequently moving it. An efhw sized for 40m would work nicely, they can be oriented various ways, but of course needs 60 some f

Johnny Thanks for listing the original features, I need go get mine out to find the dummy load (-: See my list from earlier posting, I still think its got the most usefulness to fill in gaps that buil

Jim much appreciated. Here is my brainstorm on what to consider for HF test set II LC meter frequency counter from the original 2 level xtal signal generator like NorCal s59 audio oscillator few watt

Excellent idea to provide a useful tool to kit builders and homebrews. Seek to add an LC measurement capability. NJQRP once offered it in Elsie, maybe George Heron could be asked for coding help. I su