Leaning tower of Uniden..... and a shack

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mancow

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A few 780s for milair monitoring. :D

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Wow, that is a of Uniden's. Do you happen to own any stock in the company? LOL.

Seriously though, that is a very nice set-up.

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Just recently got them hooked up so I haven't had much time to see how it all works. I had quite a bit of RCAG stuff this morning when the band was up. It's kind of quite right now but should be hopping when they start doing more training again.
 

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Nice mancow, the room lights must dim when you turn on your power supply. Clean simple set up. I could only imagine your multi coupler or antenna farm on the roof. What is your favorite antenna for 30-50 MHz ?
 

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Nice mancow, the room lights must dim when you turn on your power supply. Clean simple set up. I could only imagine your multi coupler or antenna farm on the roof. What is your favorite antenna for 30-50 MHz ?

The multicoupler is just an Electroline cable tv drop amp with a 4 port splitter on each of the 4 outputs. As for 3-50, my favorite is the home made ground plane suspended from a tree out back. It's made of 4 8ft aluminum angle pieces for ground plane elements and a regular stainless center whip. A wire crimp eyelet crimped to the whip make for a hoop to attached the string it's suspended from. It works better than anything else I've used.

The antenna feeding the 780s is a TACO commercial brand 225-400 mil antenna with a preamp and filter right below it.
 

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How are they programed, each one on a specific frequency, are they scanning, etc ?

I divided up the 225-390 range into chunks and programmed each with one of those chunks of spectrum. It allows a search of the entire range in just a few seconds.
 
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