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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Lancaster" data-source="post: 172338" data-attributes="member: 6154">That antenna will be used for 24 hour monitoring of WWG75 162.40 MHz weather radio. The only station in Hawaii we can catch because of our location here in Haiku Valley, is repeater station WWG75. It's located atop Haleakala on Maui. That's 113 miles south east of us here on Oahu. And that explains the big bad ass bitchen beam antenna, LOL! Brother Tom LOVES his new tuning toy. (MFJ-226) At this very moment he's working on the radio receiver's 50 Ohm input from the antenna. Everything needs to be matched up for maximum efficiency..&nbsp; After we finish the tweaking of the antenna. Tom's going to redesign a couple of the printed circuit boards in the radio. That should fix a couple of glitches that developed after a year of continuous service. I don't understand all he tells me about how radio really works but it is very fascinating and I do learn some stuff. Imagine life with no radio.. No RC, no cell phones, no GPS, no radar, no communications, no internet, no weather satellites, no nothing.. What a depressing thought.&nbsp; Fortunately that's not the case and we all can play around with it.. Happy radioing!...&nbsp;&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]23222[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rob Lancaster, post: 172338, member: 6154"] That antenna will be used for 24 hour monitoring of WWG75 162.40 MHz weather radio. The only station in Hawaii we can catch because of our location here in Haiku Valley, is repeater station WWG75. It's located atop Haleakala on Maui. That's 113 miles south east of us here on Oahu. And that explains the big bad ass bitchen beam antenna, LOL! Brother Tom LOVES his new tuning toy. (MFJ-226) At this very moment he's working on the radio receiver's 50 Ohm input from the antenna. Everything needs to be matched up for maximum efficiency.. After we finish the tweaking of the antenna. Tom's going to redesign a couple of the printed circuit boards in the radio. That should fix a couple of glitches that developed after a year of continuous service. I don't understand all he tells me about how radio really works but it is very fascinating and I do learn some stuff. Imagine life with no radio.. No RC, no cell phones, no GPS, no radar, no communications, no internet, no weather satellites, no nothing.. What a depressing thought. Fortunately that's not the case and we all can play around with it.. Happy radioing!... [ATTACH type="full"]23222[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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