Recent content by BC Coyote

It's either an inverter, a solar controller, or a noisy SMPS. Almost certainly in or very close to your home. Shut off your house breaker and see if it goes away. If it does you can turn them back on one at a time until the noise starts up again....at that point you know which circuit the...

Not radio at all actually. If you're going to call that radio, then by extension talking on your cell would be radio too, which it kind of is, but you would never call it radio!

I built a horizontal 11 meter full wavelength loop and it was insanely noisy....even worse than my Antron 99. The horizontal delta loop I run now is very quiet by comparison. So while they are both loops, one is much quieter than the other for some reason.

Decent DX the last few days. Had a pipeline to South America this afternoon and made contact with not one, but two Brazilian stations and one from Argentina as well! 65 watts from my 5555N2 and a delta loop antenna.......my amp is still offline. I even got a 5/9 signal report from one of the...

Yet another reason to avoid Ranger and anything else made by RCI.

I think the sun must have burped out a flare or two....... pretty poor conditions up this way today after a week or more of the band being on fire every day. Hearing the Aussies for sure, and some weak Florida / Gulf Coast stations but that's about it.

Highly likely. I heard several stations from there on 27.555 an hour or so ago.....

I've been hearing AI voices here and there on the band for a couple of months now, mostly the usual political rants and personal differences shit, but using a female AI voice. There's been one going on channel 38 periodically for the last couple days targeting a certain CBer in Texas. Idiots...

Classic move for RCI. Cut corners everywhere you can to save a penny or two. I notice they also skipped the choke on the RCI version of the little PCB board.........

Some really interesting stuff heard tonight after sunset. Had 224 division Tarawa Island, some 91 division stuff from Indonesia and heard two calls from 60 division Hong Kong! Several stations from Chile and Argentina in the mix as well. All up on 27.555 USB. I hollered in vain for the Hong...

My philosophy on lightning is: Why even take a chance? Sure, I could leave everything hooked up and hope that my ground and lightning protection systems will deal with the hit. Or I could do what any smart person would do and disconnect everything; power, antenna, and ground, before the storm...

Nothing seems to have changed with ebay listings up here in Canada. Just checked ebay.ca now and Anytone 6666PRO is top of the page. Some Ranger export radios for sale there too. Interestingly, many of them are WAY down the page. But they are still for sale right now. Usually ISEDC...

Not quite a heatwave here, but it is a beautiful sunny day on the BC coast. 17 C right now, which is 62 F or thereabouts. I did hear that snow fell on some of the mountain passes in the interior last night.

It is somewhat directional off the sides of the horizontal part, but not as directional as I thought it would be. No rotor.....I have it strung between two fir trees. It is indeed a very quiet antenna, especially compared to my A99. I found the basic design for it on a ham website and then...

Absolutely. Mine has been my primary DX antenna ever since I put it up. It massively outperforms my Antron-99 on DX contacts. Needs to be up nice and high to work properly. The horizontal top of mine is around 35 feet above ground.