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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Love it, great job!

If I had to provide points of possible improvement:

  • N connector instead of PL259
  • RG214 cable

Source: I'm environmentally damaged from doing GMDSS installs for four years.

Which antenna are you using? What's your TX wattage?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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