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    who's got the best price on a Wilson 1000?

    Watch their shipping and handling fees. Its more than just the shipping cost. Sometimes paying them to put it in a box and giving it to the mailman can more than make up for the good deal you think you are getting.
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    Dead Hobby?

    I appreciate the responses guys. Switch, I'm not quoting DTB, just going by what I remember, but I do believe he said that MOST people he explained it to wanted a properly tuned and aligned radio. When you say "you could beat them senseless and it still wouldn't matter", I'm surprised you...
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    Dead Hobby?

    For those of you who think the radio hobby is all but dead, here are a few recent stories from the local paper. Balloon Lift Pint-sized Communicators I know some will say that it is not like it was "in the day", but it seems to me that the hobby became a fad and is now back to being...
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    MC Happy Hamer, Can't Touch Thay

    Hamer, since deleted posts aren't ever really deleted, just moved to a moderator-only database(I think I remember that being said somewhere, sorry if I'm mistaken). How about reposting the deleted posts here in the General Discussion area. That would save us from having to start from scratch and...
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    Nashville TN, Gatlinburg TN

    Hamer, are you going to go by Ten-Tec? You are just down the road from it.
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    Nashville TN, Gatlinburg TN

    I'd say your right about a lot of the noise from the hotels and cabins with their mood lighting (dimmer switches), flourescent lighting, etc. There is also many old electrical runs that haven't been updated and repaired. I have a hard time getting away from noise and I think some of it is...
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    Happy Father's Day

    Happy Father's Day. I Know there are a few of you out there, live it up! A couple of quotes: If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. - James Baldwin My father hated radio and he could not...
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    NOAA

    Who else likes browsing the NOAA website and all it's related links? I can spend a lot of time looking at satellite and storm pictures and even learning some stuff too. Some of their cool links are: SEC's Radio User's Page NOAA Photo Library National Geophysical Data Center Operational...
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    Has anyone seen or heard about this?

    I bet I did! Their abduction, torture, and discovery all happened between between the several miles from where I live to where I work. It has been such big news here that I didn't realize it didn't make national news. Here is a little of what the families said to the local newspaper...
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    EVEN RETARDS CAN GET A LICENSE NOW

    I'm going to get a little off topic, sorry, but here I go. It would be great if we had to take a test to qualify to do everything and the tests were always as hard as possible. We could really weed-out the riff-raff. For example if to own and operate a car you had to take a test on the...
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    NEW ANTENNA

    Doc, I think these are pretty neat and would be good to experiment with. This particular one is obviously a archimedean planar spiral, but it would be cool to see the effect of using a conical spiral or better yet a fermat spiral. I think I remember the direction of the winding affecting the...
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    I-10k 5/8 WAVE ?

    Often, when someone asks for an opinion on a product, Happy_Hamer will say that it is garbage and they should send it to him for "disposal". Is calling this antenna scrap and offering $100 for it really that different? I don't think so, I think they are both harmless, serious or not. Being...
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    Fuel pump noise elimination

    Here is a link to a pretty long list of car acronyms: www.donsautopages.co.nz/autoacronyms.htm
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    MY 2007 JEEP WRANGLER

    That doesn't look like his wrangler. Isn't the image below from his earlier thread? In the above image, the air vents are right under the dash, but in the below image the radio is between the dash and air vents. The one above looks like a Liberty to me, but hey, what do I know, I've never seen...
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    68XL 9/19 switch mod

    I believe they are talking about instead of the switch taking you from normal to 9 it will take you from normal to 19.
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    THE SUN ? DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENTS WITH CONDITIONS ?

    I'm by no means educated on this stuff, but I have some ideas on what might be going on (that is, if we rule out you losing that last marble). Someone else will probably have the right answer. The clouds could make or signal a change in temp, pressure, or humidity in the troposphere which...
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    SUPER TINKER "VICTORNOX" SWISS ARMY KNIFE

    Victorinox now calls it a "multipurpose hook", which I guess means there is no longer a purpose for it. Originally, it was considered a "parcel carrier", that was from when parcels were wrapped in brown paper and bound with twine. You would hold the knife body as a t-grip and put the twine in...
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    static ball necessary ?

    From what I've read, corona balls are good for dealing with rolling static and dust static, but most are too small to do any real good. If you are going to replace it, put a larger one on and let us know if it helps. k0bg's site has some info that is a pretty interesting read with some practical...
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    Happy Easter

    Thought I would say happy Easter to all. It is a pretty busy day. Church from 8:30 to 1:00 then to dinner at 1:30. After that, catch a nap before going in to work at 9:00. I hope ya'll have a bit more time to relax and reflect. Anyway, God bless ya.