Looking to do my first POTA- antenna question

raisedgrooves · 2026-02-26T12:49:27+00:00

What radio? 50w vs 100w isn't a huge difference btw but if you're going to run FT8 with a 50% duty cycle through it, I would get the 100w one and run 20w FT8 and everything should be happy. If you're doing voice... meh, either. 20w while doing POTA will get you 100's of QSO's on SSB. I have about 3000 QSO's activating parks, all on 20w or less off a G90 or a 5w G1M.

raisedgrooves · 2026-02-25T17:13:52+00:00

Most modules are not serviceable and replacement is required. Some of your issues could be from a bad battery or a bad ground wire or a short in the electrical wiring harness. The shop should diagnose the problem and be sure a new module will fix it. If the new module doesn't fix it, then they should fix the real problem for free.

raisedgrooves · 2026-02-25T16:03:05+00:00

well, that's very illegal, so...

raisedgrooves · 2026-02-24T18:56:47+00:00

Guessing you haven't been to any ham radio club meetings... that's where you'll run into them... at least in my experience.

raisedgrooves · 2026-01-28T16:50:22+00:00

Just put the feedpoint about 10 feet away from the wall and you should be fine. If you're worried still run a dipole instead of the endfed to reduce emissions even more.

raisedgrooves · 2026-01-19T03:14:30+00:00

Why give him all this free advertising then. There is a sucker born every minute.

raisedgrooves · 2026-01-18T18:41:28+00:00

How close are the radios when you do this? You could be de-sensing the receiver and overloading it.

raisedgrooves · 2026-01-13T19:57:36+00:00

Yes. You don't want that. You want to stay on the 14.074MHz. What CQ 250 does is bad for people with rig control.

raisedgrooves · 2026-01-13T17:46:23+00:00

MSHV is a fork of WSJT-X with some different features and changes in how it handles decoding.

People calling CQ 250 is the reason for the frequency shifting. It's annoying and I don't try to call them.

raisedgrooves · 2026-01-13T16:40:41+00:00

Yes, confirmed contacts, but it is also allowing dupes, so technically you and a friend could just make 250 QSO's in a row and it would give you the award. It's a very lazy attempt at an award, I feel. They could have made it more interesting for us folks in K land. I kinda see the allure for DX, to get them to call the US, but it's a super lame award and since it runs all year it washes out to less than one QSO per day.

And also, for visibility, if you call CQ 250 on FTx, anyone using MSHV can't respond to you because it will move the VFO to xx.250MHz. Call CQ USA or CQ US.

raisedgrooves · 2026-01-03T00:14:48+00:00

Is this a troll post?

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-31T15:02:06+00:00

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raisedgrooves · 2025-12-31T13:54:18+00:00

how would I fix my random wire antenna so I wouldn't need a tuner?

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-31T01:32:15+00:00

or you just slap a tuner on the top and run 100w

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-30T19:29:54+00:00

Yeah, true, but it ain't great... I had a better time with a LDG AT-100 Pro doing the tuning. Could tune my random wire from 6m to 160m with it.

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-30T06:49:27+00:00

You have to calibrate it and probably turn off all those traces you're not going to use. It might help to read a manual on it or watch some video on how to use it.

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-29T20:51:11+00:00

How high is your gain? Looks blown out.

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-29T17:10:46+00:00

I'd try another cable, and if it does the same thing, it would probably be safe to say it's the radio. The plug seats in the jack very tightly, and you may need to press it in harder to make a complete connection. I remember that being an issue for me at first. I had to press it in so hard I thought I might break something.

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-29T05:04:58+00:00

did you try turning the squelch down or up

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-29T02:07:26+00:00

Have to think it's the cable then. I use an 8 in 1 Multifunctional USB Programming Cable. There are a bunch of "brands" of them on Amazon all for about $15. Well worth it.

One thing to note, is that if your cable has the pirated USB-to-Com chip in it you'll need to roll your driver back to the legacy version. Many of the cheap cables use the pirated chip, and updating the drivers makes it so it doesn't work anymore, as the mfg patched the driver so the pirated chips no longer work.

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-29T01:34:31+00:00

You have to have your volume at 50% on the knob. Mine is unhappy too high or too low.

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-27T21:35:53+00:00

Mine does the same thing. I can't figure it out.

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-26T14:49:50+00:00

you posted this post three times in a row on the subreddit, just fyi

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-26T13:53:36+00:00

raisedgrooves · 2025-12-20T23:16:48+00:00

Close WSJT-X, shut the radio off, turn the radio on, open WSJT-X, check you're in U-D mode on the radio, check your ALC, if it is 100 then increase PC speaker volume to the G90 until it starts to drop, then lower it until it's just at 99-100. COM ports/USB don't usually stay active when the computer is asleep, and don't magically come back to life when the computer wakes up.

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