Recent content by BC Coyote

Oh please let's do that! And the "crying baby" guy too..... And the guy who plays Fox news all day every day....... And the guy with the Hitler speeches, And the guy with the air-raid siren sound effect........ And a whole bunch of other radio misfits. I'll happily contribute to the cost...

One less company making drifty substandard outdated radios. I won't be shedding a tear for Galaxy. They had years and years to pull it together but they just kept churning out the same junk. In the tech world, you either innovate or you perish and Galaxy choose the second option. CB and 11...

Mildest and wettest winter in decades out here on the west coast of BC. The coldest it got all winter so far was -2C. Sitting at +2C right now. Been up to +10C lots of days. We have however had biblical amounts of rain.....lots of flooded river valleys and such. The big concern here is...

Sorry I missed you! I've had only an hour or two on the radio all week. Life gets busy with other things sometimes..... I'm also dealing with another noisy powerline issue. Fortunately this one is a couple blocks away and is only affecting my A-99 vertical (which I only use for local talk)...

Ah yes, the pig returns once again, with yet another layer of lipstick applied. And the price.............have they lost their minds completely? No FM, same old subpar noise reduction, same ugly styling, and probably drifts on SSB like they all do. As Retro said above....UGH!

That's considered a bad three letter word 'round these parts there pardner......

That's really sad news! I had the good fortune to QSO with him on several occasions. He was a fine operator and he will be greatly missed by many. May your radio room in the hereafter be filled with the all the finest gear JJ......

That's awful. My Antron 99 does over 2 MHz with less than 1.8:1 SWR and my delta loop does even better than that. If you need more bandwidth than 1 MHz spread then 5/8 wave GP is not the antenna to use!

I've been wondering the same thing! My rule of thumb for AM is that max swing PEP should be no more than 4X the deadkey. If you're running the 6666PRO barefoot you should be good with 15 to 20 watts deadkey. That will give you swing to about 80 watts. And if you're intending to run an amp...

AAAAAAARGH! I had forgotten about that P.O.S. I never owned one, but once made the mistake of offering to repair one for a friend. It didn't go well and I turned it into a brick for the unhappy friend. I had to pay all costs. And find friend another radio. Ugh.. One of the few times that...

Made contact with Darran a couple days ago on 610 USB and heard him again yesterday several times as well. Both on 555 and 610. Not sure how much longer he's active from there...... 56 Division Finland in here strong over the pole this afternoon. Been in and out on 555 for a couple hours now.

You're not kidding. Very little heard here on either 37 or 38. Even 6 & 28 are at a low level today. South America however is just booming in! I have several Brazilian stations having a QSO on 40 USB and splatter from a Spanish speaking station on the lower side. Went up to 555 USB and it's...

Pointless on 16 today. I checked at 11am PST and there's about a dozen AM conversations going on, the white-noise jammer is going, and worse of all the Splatterbox Kings on 6, 11, 15, 17 & 28 are doing their thing and making a big mess of the entire band. I'll pass.......

Nailed country #88 this afternoon! Darran 70DA/OC077 operating a special activation from American Samoa in the South Pacific. 27.610 USB Great conditions these last couple days.......wish I had more radio time!

I heard you 226! I was taking a break from work and radio just happened to be on 580 USB when you and 316 came on..... You were about an S 5 or 6. Couldn't hear 316 at all....not a peep...but that's just conditions. Phone rang and I had to go back to work for a bit so didn't get a chance to...