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Amazon.com has them (hosting for some company named Advanced Specialties Inc.) Amazon.com: Uniden BEARCAT980SSB CB Radio: Car Electronics

aluminum antennas do not survive well under the ravages of severe thunderstorms, microbursts and winter storms, and i do not feel like lowering an antenna for every storm that blows through

if you do not know the seller just remember "Caveat Emptor" (buyer beware) it could be anything, it might be a decent radio in need of a little TLC (an hour on the workbench and its as good as new), or you could get some broken junk that was used as a guinea pig by an armchair hack of a...

if you liked that one, you'll love this one by Mark Twain (another favorite of mine) "A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life...

"Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or versions of Microsoft Windows...

I wished Icom still made the 703 which was all band HF but only QRP power (10 watts pep) on ssb, also another good QRP rig is the SG-2020 ADSP2 Transceiver which only has SSB and CW, LSB & USB, No AM mode i dont want a lot of power, i refuse to use more than a stock radio, (10 to 100 watts)

i seen a short tower that is about 20 feet high and it does not have guy wires, it is free standing and is wide at the bottom for stability, looks sort of like a windmill tower, if i was to spend money on a new tower that is what i would do is either build or buy a "windmill style" tower that...

yeah, it looks homemade by Otis the drunk from Mayberry

looks great in Firefox on Linux, the slide thing works good as soon as i enable javascript, i normally browse with javascript disabled until i find i need it for something to function correctly (javascript is too easily exploited so i leave it disabled by default)

I never could trust ebay and paypal, too easy for a sneaky shyster to scam people through that. i always buy brand new

i wont criticize, i been a shortwave listener for many years, so i am always on the hunt for something different or interesting to listen to, shortwave pirate radio is a favorite catch for listening, so if i heard some music on a CB frequency i would enjoy listening to it since it would be...

there is always going to be the "Buzz Kill" types who will find something to complain about, if it isnt a little music it will be because someone else's comment went against their politics or religion, some people just want absolute control over everyone and everything, and they will if you let...

i bet the only real difference is the IC-718 steps through the amateur bands, and the IC-78 is set up for easy access the maritime frequencies, (other than that i dont see much difference) other than the VFO knob = the 718 has the finger dimple and the 78 does not

buy one of these and you can make a dipole out of a pair of mobile antennas, i made a horizontal out of two 102 inch steel whips and they sag just a little bit making it almost an inverted V but just a little wide to call it a V, i am sure it would work just as well vertically MFJ Enterprises...

Japanese radios getting more expensive? probably radioactive too? and not just radios, i would hope US Customs runs a geiger counter over everything being imported from Japan