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I ordered another type of 300 to 75 ohm transformer from amazon and opened both of them, they are both using ferrite cores, no capacitors (I don't know what that trash is about). So the reason I was having such a terrible quality before is because I was using a 3/8" pipe with 1 side cut for...

I thought the radiation pattern of a dipole is perpendicular to its length, shouldn't dipoles be vertically mounted, how come yours is horizontal?

That antenna appears to have a horizontal polarization and is too big at 30ft length: West Mountain Radio - Double Extended Zepp Antenna Calculator

Any links to guides, pictures and how it's assembled as well as tips, ie basically a cookbook, would be appreciated.

Yes, I'm making a dipole for CHP reception. ANT42D -Folded Dipole Antenna 38.5-47 MHz - Telewave, Inc looks nice, with a center freq of 42.75MHz, however $2300 damn... :D A year or two back, I read a lot about current BALUNs and how to make them, but forgot it all. Was interested in spectrum...

I bought Amazon.com: 75 to 300 Ohm UHF/VHF Matching Transformer: Electronics but I don't think it's working like it should, although perhaps my weird dipole I built long time ago is to blame, a 1.2m leg with 0.45m leg dipole made from copper pipe. But I did not notice that it was isolating the...

Hi, I'd like to build my own RECEIVER ONLY center fed 1/2 wave dipole for 39-45MHz antenna. While I'm reading through quite a few resources, I thought I'd ask for pointed questions and get direct answers. I'm currently reading through Audio Systems Group, Inc. Publications and trying to figure...

Hi DC31, Thank you, it worked. I installed darkice, and icecast2. Configured icecast2 using the installation prompt. Configured darkice1.cfg from provided radioreference tar.gz IceCast2 was already launched because it is a service. DarkIce needed to be manually launched using sudo darkice -c...

Hi, I installed Raspberry Pi 3B+, have a USB Sound Card, can change the volume levels using alsamixer or the GUI version, in the process of installing darkice. However, since I currently don't have an approved feed, I was wondering how can I listen to the audio I am receiving in order to tweak...

Listened to Fremont PD for a year but not recently, didn't notice any interruptions on bcd436hp. Fremont talks way more than other cities in south east bay, so I turn it off sometimes.

Wow LOL, I bought a NEW one from amazon for $351 last week, direct from amazon.com sold by.

I doubt they check for any kind of problems unless they are the obvious ones and even then I doubt it. Never had earphone jack issues, 2 years of use. Yes, clock does not hold time is the recall/repair issue.

Yes, that's the problem they will fix. The RTC battery went bad and doesn't hold charge so the real time clock gets reset. My screen was doing weird things in cold temperatures, bad contrast, and light was a bit dim, so I asked them to replace the LED screen and they did. I left a note in the...

Forgot to mention: AUTO-TURN ON at USB power I got a 2nd Uniden for the same reason, and it took me a year to send my unit for repair, just because I liked listening to highway patrol and local PD at the same time and couldn't give it up. Just got my unit from repair, and it looks good. Also...

It'd be interesting to see if they fixed a lot of the complaints people had re: 436 like: auto-record on startup auto-on background and I can't remember the rest.

Bought my 3rd 436 direct from Amazon for $351, some reseller dropped amazon's price with the algorithm by $70 for a few hours, and I snagged it after being notified by keepa.com

Ah OK, I haven't noticed the Scanner->Clear User Data window, I did look for it though. This deletes all user info if any and writes all scanner necessary files to that drive and then you can "Write to Scanner" to write your Favorites and DB.

FYI, In order to write to microSD (card only, not sure how it works if the radio itself is plugged in with an empty microSD card, but I suspect it's the same issue), it must contain a copy of files that the scanner use to boot up. Sentinel apparently looks for those files in order to identify...

I've been procrastinating for a year in sending mine for repair, I used mine for CHP and bought a second one for replacement while I wait for repair, but I installed the second with local PD and have been running both in parallel in my car ever since. Was relying on it tonight to hunt for a...

I bought BC23A and BC7, will see what they look like and how they work.