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1 posted on 07/04/2017 10:14:14 AM PDT by tbw2
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https://survivalcomms.wordpress.com


2 posted on 07/04/2017 10:20:36 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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This should be good. I love the ham radio threads on FR.


3 posted on 07/04/2017 10:20:45 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Jamestown1630; TxGrandMom; LurkedLongEnough; StoneWall Brigade; 45semi; AlexW; LadyBuck; ...

Pinging the list.


4 posted on 07/04/2017 10:29:07 AM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)
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Should work with my cell phone too.


8 posted on 07/04/2017 10:44:07 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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Don't need to buy a PCB antenna, can make the same thing out of a few coat hangers, a furring strip, some solder, some wire, and using a calculator.

I have all of that laying around the house here and it'll cost me nothing more than about 30 minutes of time.

Bottom line: a little knowledge, some time, and some good old fashioned American ingenuity typically means you can build an antenna for much cheaper than you can buy one and it's going to work almost as good as a commercial product.

That's the beauty of this hobby!

9 posted on 07/04/2017 10:50:09 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Fine, a broadband antenna for a range of line-of-sight frequencies that does include several ham bands, but for which virtually no commercial equipment is avaialble. So this is supposed to help “survival comms” - how, exactly?

hese LPAs could be useful for wi-fi if directionality is desired, but I can come up with 2 dozen more useful ideas for survival communications without even trying, and wouldn’t need a boring half hour video to describe them all.


12 posted on 07/04/2017 11:02:53 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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Just gimme 1000’ of wire and I can handle the rest...

All wires here.. OCF 6-80 @60’ Downsized from Yagi’s 6-40


14 posted on 07/04/2017 11:27:06 AM PDT by halfright (Deplorable in Florida)
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Are people stlll interested in radio? I’ve been trying to sell my ICOM Receiver (IC-R71A) on Craigslis. I get zero response.


15 posted on 07/04/2017 11:46:14 AM PDT by CJinVA
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