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Hello everyone. does anyone know how to do the frequency conversion on the new galaxy 99v2 ? Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance.

Hello everyone. I have cobra 25 LTD classic that i want to do the switch mod for upper and lower channels on. I cannot find any information on how to perform this mod. If anyone knows how to do this mod any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

Hello everyone i just thought that this might be interesting to some of you out there. i go camping alot and usually bring a cb radio but the main problem i had was the antenna. it had to be small enough to fit into a back pack but had to work. so with the help of the internet and my own two...

Hello everyone I recently per chased a north point NT-4-HP that has been converted. Does a anyone know the tune up procedure for this radio? It is supposed to be a 50 watt radio but is only doing about 20 and swings backwards on high power. any help would be great. thanks

Hello everyone, i recently aquired a cobra 29 LX that had no output. Turns out the final transistor was cracked and a resistor was cooked. I replaced both components and the output came back. But when you modulate, it swings backwards and i cannot figure out why its doing this. Any help will be...

Hello everyone. I have a contex 6706 linear amp that i've used for side band for years. Well recently i smoked the rf choke in the front so i replaced it. Now when i go to talk on it i will see it hit maximum power but then the power will drop to nothing. Also at this point i can see that the...

hello everyone i am going camping next weekend and want to take my handheld cb radio, but my problem is that i cant take a full size antenna with a big ground wire and hang it in a tree. So instead i thought of using a telescopic antenna with a loading coil to tune it but i dont know what kind...

Hello everyone i was just thinking about something and wanted to know what you guys thought. I am going camping in a few days and want to bring my handheld radioshack cb radio but i needed a bigger antenna. So i thought of this: I could make a "bazooka" antenna but didnt want to have to have a...

Hello everyone, I'm just wondering what is the best homemade CB DX antenna. I do not have a lot of money and was just wondering if their is a way to make a good DX antenna. Any help would be appreciated - Thanks

Hello everyone I have a president Washington cb base (5 pin mike) that sounds like it gets feedback when transmitting. I have disconnected the speaker and it still does it. The radio has two mics wired for it but both do the same thing. I have also tried grounding the mic to the radio and that...

Hello, I am trying to restore a PRESIDENT WASHINGTON CB base but it has 3 offsets that controll the the receive and transmitt frequency. No matter what I do I cannot seem to get the recieve and transmitt locked together on the same frequency. This is an MB-8719 PLL if that helps. Any help as to...

Hello does any one have a way to make a normal CB antenna directional without physically altering the antenna? Any help or ideas would be great. I'm just trying to shoot a little skip and wanted to try a directional antenna instead of an omni-directional antenna. Thanks.

Hello everyone, i have an old hygain CLR-2 base antenna and am planning on mounting it in a tree. I have already tried this and my swr went through the roof, and i think this was because the antenna was too close to the tree. Does anyone have any ideas on how to mount this antenna in the tree...

Hello everyone, i was just wondering if there was a specific type of antenna that works the best for dx.(verticle, horizontal, directional, omni-directional, ect.) Thanks!

Hello everyone I am in need of a Peak Reading watt meter but can't spend alot of money on it. If anyone could tell me where I could get one of these meters that is cheap and reliable it would be appreciated. Thanks

Hello everyone I have a hygain clr-2 base antenna from the '70s and it is mounted on the side of a tree. Would the tree cause signal reflection and high swr. It is also mounted on a metal pole and has a homemade ground plane system on it. Would the ground plane be too large with the metal pole...

Hello everyone. Does anyone know how many watts a Contex 6706 linear amp will produce. I measured it at about 55 watts peak on ssb and about 45 watts peak on AM. It does have 2 tubes that test good on a tester. I wasn't sure if it should be doing more than this. Any info would be helpful. Thanks!

Hello. Does anyone know the right way to open and unlock the clarifier on a President Washington AM/SSB base radio. I've seen and read many different ways on how to do this but nothing seems to be working right. Also does anyone know the correct value of the clarifier control, mine has a 100k...