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    Any FCC busts for DXing?

    & thanks too, n0zna. Letters, calls, for spattering make sense.
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    Any FCC busts for DXing?

    Thanks K9GAS, Wrench, & a couple others. Kinda what I figured, kinda what the FCC site showed. And given the number of aircraft comms interference & bootleg FM station cases the FCC site listed, it looks like they're putting their efforts in the right places.
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    Any FCC busts for DXing?

    Cool! Does that mean the DOJ is going to start giving us free guns? BTW, the FCC site turned up 8 CB-related busts in the last two years. All were running amps or export radios. Most were warnings, one guy had to "voluntarily" destroy his amp, one got a $4000 fine, and another guy got a...
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    Any FCC busts for DXing?

    To anyone's knowledge, has anyone anywhere ever been busted for talking more than 150 miles / 250 km on a CB? I'm not asking for hypotheticals here, or about using the range limit for a "pile it on charge" for a guy who's already breaking other laws. I'm asking if the FCC ever goes (or has...
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    Skip, seasons, solar cycles: what’s next?

    Suh-weet! Thanks y'all, it's good to hear that the fun's not slowing down for a while.
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    Skip, seasons, solar cycles: what’s next?

    Having just gotten a base antenna up last fall and gotten started DX’ing, the skip has been pretty good, and it’s been surprisingly easy to make contacts 1200 miles away with nothing more than a barefoot 148. I’ve also played around with VOACAP Online - professional-grade 11M coverage area...
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    signal loss using RG8x with couplers?

    These two papers say PL-259's/SO-239's are fine under 30 MHz: ‘UHF’ Connector Test Results | Ham Radio Help Desk The UHF type connectors under network analysis OK, the second one has 50 MHz for the lowest frequency, but it still looks pretty good there.
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    How bad is it in your area?

    Not a lot of local traffic here. Occasionally hear someone on I-10 passing the time on 19, or asking for a radio check around the neighborhoods, but that's about it. Apart from the yell-fests on 6 and sometimes 21, and of course the skip traffic, it's really quiet.
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    38 LSB "Day after Day after Day"..biggest loser on the air.

    Over here too. Can we DF on the guy and send in a hit team? I don't mean for him, just for his coax lead: *snip*, crimp on a dummy load, problem solved. He'd never know the difference.
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    VOACAP - point-to-point propagation predictor ...

    Been playing with this for the past hour, and it's awesome like a possum! Thanks!
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    Best DX contact of my life......!

    466 miles worth of awesome! Congratulations!
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    tin roof & base antenna questions

    Thanks for the answers folks. Looks like it boils down to "if you're going to do it, put the antenna in the middle." Putting it out at the back end of the shed would probably point the rudimentary beam toward Mexico, which is not exactly what I'm looking for. (And no, I am not going to mount...
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    tin roof & base antenna questions

    I’m thinking of putting in an A-99 either on or near my tin-roofed shed. The roof is 50’ x 25’, with the ridge of the roof running longways; top of the ridge is about 20’ above ground. The roofing metal itself is unpainted galvalume-coated steel -- about as conductive as a roof can get. Due...
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    What Is Your Handle # & Location

    Like the name says: Prime Number, Coastal Mississippi. Why "Prime Number"? Ever see the movie "Contact"? OK, I'll never get DX like those Vegans (and neither will you), but it is something to aspire to.