Near the centerline should be fine.

The Icom-802 is a great rig, especially so if you also have a ham
license. I highly recommend getting a SCS Pactor III to go with it,
along with free Airmail software for your laptop. The combination is
very versatile and powerful: Email via HF radio, Navtex, weather fax,
position reporting via APRS, etc.

Talk to Gary at Dockside Radio if you need help setting it up or
getting licensed:

http://www.docksideradio.com/

Skip Gundlach wrote:

Thanks for any informed opinions :{))

Forget dubbing with an xmting whip, insulate the backstay & light it up
for HF. The insulators aren't cheap but neither is another
whip-related evolution. The stay is also a good compromise btw vert &
horiz polarization. A good tuner'll tune a backstay dowm to 1.5 swr or
better almost anywhere you'll operate. Be smart about the feedline
(get help if U need it). Elegance, performance, less junk sticking off
the boat, tuner below where it belongs.

From: "Larry"
Subject: HF antenna placement question
Date: Saturday, July 30, 2005 10:47 PM

Me wrote in news:Me-
:

SGC Autotuners are some of the worst of the lot, even if they did steal
the design from the real inventers. SGC couldn't even copy the design
correctly, and "Old PeeAir" couldn't design his way out of a "Wet Paper
Bag".

Me



Hee hee....Don't hold back, Skip! Tell us what you REALLY think of SGC's
crapware!....(c;

REAL tuners are manually operated and say Nye-Viking on the front of them.
I own the 3KW model from the 60's. Wet noodles explode above 500
watts!...(c;

You can tell if your ground is poor on big ham transmitters. You hear
screaming when you whistle, briefly, into the metal microphone...as your
hands burn in effigy.

73 DE W4CSC

Heh. It wasn't I who commented on SGC...

But now that I am connected for real vs web, I see that there are a
multitude of posts which don't show up on googlegroups' version of RBC/B.

L8R

Skip

Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2 - The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her

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didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
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