Recent content by BC Coyote

Welcome to WWDX! From a fellow British Columbian.........

I have reached the point where I simply DON'T pick up unless I'm 100% certain I know who's calling. I have voice mail, and I figure anyone who really needs to reach me and who I don't know can leave a voice mail. If they can't be bothered to leave a voice mail then the call probably isn't very...

We're out here! I heard a couple of Oklahoma stations as recently as two days ago. Not a super common state to contact from here on the west coast, but I do it a few times a year when conditions are good.

Greg I'm curious what you mean by "background for my station". Are you making CB YouTube videos? Or do you just mean for room decoration? The background for my station is an ugly wall with some QSL cards and other important pieces of radio-related paper tacked to it LOL!

No it's 23 Sean, I'm on Cortes Island. Crazy conditions for after 11pm that's for sure! Just talked to 677 Tasmania & 612 New South Wales a few moments ago. Off to bed now, gotta work in the morning.....

Absolutely! And some of it's really short. Talked to Wenatchee Washington the other night.......that's only 280 miles from my QTH up here in the Discovery Islands. Lots of Saskatchewan, Alberta, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado contacts for me the last week or two. Even talked to a couple...

If it's the Radioddity version (the QT-40) and you bought it new, then it is covered by a warranty. Send it back and get another one. They are not really repairable.....it's essentially a computer/SDR in a CB case! From all I've heard it's a fantastic radio and I've heard very few complaints...

Has it had the MARS mod done to make it useful on 11 meters? That's a good looking Icom....always liked that vintage.

That's because unlike regular watts, Dosy watts are shapeshifters and can morph and enlarge themselves at will..........:LOL:

Early in my CB journey, I built a 3/4 wave vertical and it surprised me with how poorly it performed compared to the 1/4 wave that preceded it. So I wrote it off and never looked back. BUT now with the wisdom that comes from putting six decades behind me, I realize it just had a much higher...

Conditions were pretty good out here up until yesterday when it really thinned out. Still managed to talk to Hawaii, Nevada, and Idaho. But today is absolutely dead except for a couple locals. Thank goodness for locals LOL!

You just reminded me of the days when every drug store (and electronics retailer) had a tube tester! As a pre-teen I would visit the local dump, extract as many tubes as I could from dead TV's and radios, and then haul them all down to drug store in bags to test them. Good memories. I still...

I think you meant "revealed", but depending on what the inside looks like, reviled may end up being a better word LOL!

It looks rough. It almost looks like it was damp for a long time and got corroded, but maybe that's just dust. Hard to tell from the photo. If the insides look as rough as the outside it's going to be a major project to get it back to good working order!

It's been booming in from every direction up here on the west coast of Canada! The last few days have been a skip bonanza! E-skip to California and all up and down the west coast. Very short skip to Alberta and northern Idaho. Hours long openings to the east coast and deep south. And then...