Have you ever had problems operating your radio near commercial communications towers? Maybe you were a victim of front-end overload? Find out what transceiver front-end overload is and ways you can mitigate it in this video.
If you participate in Summits on the Air, it’s very likely you’ve seen this. To demonstrate, I activate a SOTA peak with a large group of communication towers on it, which is notorious for causing problems on 2 meters FM.
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