On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 09:04 AM, Gordon Gibby wrote:
At any rate, it will be a huge improvement over what most of them had beforehand (NOTHING HF).? ?
I've gone this route also, Gordon.? I bought 4 uBitX units, with the intent that I will have several HF rigs for operating activities such as Field Day, and as HF rigs to loan to new hams.? For both of those use cases, a simple and efficient antenna is needed, and I've chosen to go with EFHWs using parallel-resonant matching units built around T82 toroidal inductors - T82-2 for the 40/30/20 meter units, and T82-6 for the 20/17/15/12/10 meter units.? I used magnet wire and mica compression 'trimmer' caps which I had NOS in my parts collection, so the total cost of each matching unit for me was? ~$10.? The enclosures turn out to be the most expensive part (~$2.75 each).
one year ago these hams?didn't know a resistor from a transistor.....
and that is a real WIN.
