Part of the fun of moving to a new QTH is getting to design and build a new station. My old entrance panel was very permanently attached to the old house so it was time to go buy a new one. The old panel was a DX Engineering DXE-UE-2P. It served the purpose at the […]
How long can the control cable for the Icom AH4 be? I’m not sure but at least 170 feet (52 Meters). Icom includes a 16ish (5 meter) unshielded cable (OPC-136) with the tuner. That doesn’t get you very far except for mobile and portable operation. Lucky for you they also sell a 32.8 foot (10 […]
I ordered a pile of goodies from DX Engineering including their DXE-MBVE-5AE-BRT, their radial plate, a spool of their DXE-400MAX, and a goodie bag of assorted bits. Just doing some quick test fitting before putting everything in the ground. I wanted to see if the Icom AH-4 will fit with the stock hardware.
For whatever reason, Icom doesn’t include mounting diameter in their specs. The included u-bolt will fit up to a max of 2.5″ pole. The mounting bracket is slotted up to 4″ so you could probably use a larger u-bolt of at least 3.5″. I’m not sure about minimum mounting, but I had it mounted to […]