[IRCA] A Useful Service For DX'ers

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm always tinkering, experting.. trying different antennas and set ups and
such n what not. But, the downside is, I don't have the patience or alot of
technical skills to hand build stuff, so I have to buy it premade.

Like most, I don't like throwing my money at a crap product. I have found
two different folks who make some quality stuff that I wanted to share with
the rest of you. I make ABSOLUTELY ZERO $$ from referring anyone to these
two folks, but since quality products, good customer service and sometimes,
customization are hard to come by, I wanted to share these.

User "lowbander" on Ebay makes longwires and dipoles. They come in stock 80
feet lengths with a 9:1 balun and a way to shunt common mode noise to
ground. And unlike many longwires/dipoles, lowbanders products come with
quality belden coax as well. So you order from him. you're al lset to plug
and play

His dipoles and longwires range from $49 to $59, I do believe. Do you need
a custom length? Want something shorter or longer then 80 feet? Send him an
Ebay message and he'll take care of you.

Do you need something other then the stock PL259 connector on your cable HE
an likely help with that, let him know!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/lowbander/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

My next find is Craig at K1CRA.COM. It's mainly a store geared towards ham
operators, but he also has a service useful to DX'ers.

He sells RG58 cable for 25 cents a food, that's right. 25 cents a foot.
It's the cheapest I've found anywhere. For those of us needing cable for
our antennas going to our radios, this is a good option. For $8, he can put
pl259 conenctors on each end. Need something other then PL259's? Put an
order through and add comments on what connections you need and he can do
that...I';ve had him do PL259s,1/8th" headphone jack types and BNC male
connectors on cable for me

https://www.k1cra.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=DAVISRG58C-U

Select how many feet you want by changing the quantity.. say you want 25
feet? Make the quantity 25. The option to add the connectors is a bit down
the page, with a checkbox.

Both lowbander on ebay and Craig ar K1CRA ship via priority mail. I had
lowbander send me a package from Kansas City on a Friday and I had it here
in Alaska on a Tuesday!

I have probably close to $500 worth of Lowbanders antennas and Around $150
worth of product from K1CRA.com stuff

I live in an area far from most of anything now, so finding good quality
products at an affordable price from people you can trust is hard, and I
just wanted to share these two.

Paul
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