Recent content by BC Coyote

It's been very slim pickings up this way. Most days nothing happening on the radio at all until late afternoon when we may or may not get a bit of short skip towards the southwest states. Hawaii still makes it here reliably almost every afternoon and evening, but the usually loud Australians...

Same. Had a wee bit of Hawaii this morning and that was it for the day!

In this case, replacing the caps is likely to be the fix. As you said, they are 50 years old which puts them about 20 years past their best before date. Many of those caps will be way out of spec. Recapping the radio or at least the modulation section should fix the issue.

That is one of several Cobra radios that have a known issue with the AWI, where it lights up even if there is nothing wrong with the antenna system. It would seem that the 29LX model does disable transmit when the AWI is activated. The fix may be as simple as adjusting the correct VR in the...

Not much happening here, just a few murmurs from Hawaii, which is in the wrong direction. Hoping it swings around towards the US later so we can try and reach some of y'all on 35 USB..........

Hawaii is just smoking in here right now! Several stations from there coming in on 38 all with S9+ signals. I hear Hawaii often, but today they are LOUD!

Sounds like he doesn't care for the CB/11 meter crowd, but he can't afford to say no to business coming his way...........amp building nowadays is such an incredibly niche occupation and there's a limited demand for these things even within the CB hobby. And before someone tries to tell me CB...

The band has been dead up here for weeks. The coffin is in the ground and they're backfilling on top of it. Every day I listen for vital signs, but alas there is nothing but hisssssssssssssssssssssss........

I heard you! Gave you a couple calls after you wrapped up with DX Man, but it seemed like everyone in Cali was trying to call him at that point LOL! Did make a bunch of other California and Nevada contacts. Nice to see the summertime short skip season beginning!

Love the idea of a 399 JJ memorial weekend but other than a three day window last week I've had essentially zero DX conditions for almost a month now. Not sure about the rest of you........maybe I'm just too far north these days and skip is booming where you are!

Yup! Sitting on the edge of my chair I am..... Hard to believe they could make a SSB rig that small. Hoping for good reviews so I can have an excuse to buy one LOL! :LOL:

I'm tempted, very tempted. I like the size. I like the form factor. It's too bad it doesn't have a little more wattage.....I've been spoilt by my 6666 with its 50 watt output on FM and 60 on sideband! I guess with such a tiny size heat dissipation is a big problem with higher power output...

The DX has returned out here on the west coast of Canada! After hearing very little of anything for over month we have had lots of activity the last three days. Making some Gulf Coast, Louisiana, Florida and Caribbean contacts by day and Lots of Hawaii and Australia booming in again in the...

Thanks! That all makes a lot of sense. Always interesting to know why people do the things they do with radios!

Maybe I'm missing something, but WHY would you use an SDR for a receiver when you're using an IC-7300?? Surely the 7300 is a superior receiver in every way to the SDR? Just curious..........