Ok well my information is not necessarily wrong it is my experience ,maybe I have just lived in the suck for radio over the last 26 years . I use a little Tar heels HP with the longer whip( I believe it 55") for portable QSO's on a diamond K540 mount on the back of my chair , at home I have an alpha sloper 160-10 couple of tuned dipoles and 3 dedicated hamsticks, and a diamond X 500, a dual band beam 2/70 it is my opinion from my experience , YMMV I do have a very high noise floor of about s7-s9 and get frequent interference from an electrical substation( they find problems when I call them ) and AM broadcast tower with tuned counter poise fence around it's perimeter 1 /3 mile away.my yaesu handheld is a VX 5R , purchased new back in the day at Lentini communications in Newington,on a visit to the league , it does have the SU -1 installed with no mods what so ever , with the drop in charger , my portables and mobiles consist of various big three , and 1Alinco DJ 580T ,my base rigs are an IC 910 AH an IC 756 , FTDX 3000 , TS 990S , Any questions ?
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