Recent content by Backwoods40

If you want to play "legal-ese" with it, then the people with a simple noise toy that may play a sound effect (With similar length to a roger beep) should be in prison, while 111 guy is perfectly legal since he wasn't doing it to "amuse", "entertain", and definitely didn't want to "attract...

I tried for you. Nothing but static.

Which conveniently doesn't mention the transmission of a brief sound clip. I mean, I don't particularly care for roger beeps myself, so I guess one could argue that transmission of those tones are electronically induced and not required for normal phone operation and therefore "illegal".

Let's see that law in writing from a legitimate source that says I can't play a sound clip OTA.

My neighbor with a cochlear has never complained. I would imagine it's not something common.

East coast here. Strong contacts today to Cuba, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, California, and Dominican Republic. All were between 27.42 to 27.55

It was either Monday or Tuesday night, don't remember which, I made my furthest contact. Had a quick chat from the East coast to Victoria Australia. All previous QSO's were U.S., Canada, South America or Europe, so I was happy to reach some place new to me.

Wasn't really sure where this should go, but figure the hams would best be able to answer. I recently got an SDR, installed the software, and since a 10/11 meter antenna is all I have at the moment, decided to connect that to see what I can receive. The antenna is a half wave & can be tuned for...

Can something like this be used to run a single antenna to both CB and SDR?