Recent content by Dragon449

'Won't hurt to give it another go Rick330man. Do we keep it open ended as far as time and date(s)?

Great idea and looking forward in taking part.

Working DX in the Key's on a boat sounds like a dream to me :) cool write up Rick330man. I was away from the radio for the most part this holiday weekend. I just got my cobra 139 (23 channel) worked over and back in the shack this Sunday and plan on having this radio parked on 16 lsb. I hope we...

It certainly was a fun couple of weeks that is for sure. Indiana, Iowa, Green Bay, lots of Ohio and KY contacts made radio a blast. All barefoot contacts with a President Mckinley from an almost subterranean mounted A99 - give me more Sun, give me MORE. :)

Not to be a jerk - please, just tongue-n-cheek here, sort of... but what about a nice, thick, and affordable rubber band? :) But I get the idea..

Using a multimeter check power adapter to make sure its putting out voltage or the correct voltage.

Yes...you know I am the kingmaker of CB blogs. ;)

My involvement with the hobby has ebbed and flowed for many years. Mainly due to work, marriage, kids, etc. I guess you could say that I was a member of the early 90's revival when I was a young man and had a blast (junior high-early high school). I was living on the west coast (Anchorage, AK)...

I know this is a bit of an old thread but thanks for this link. This guy's blog is pretty interesting - his Ammo Can radio kit setup is pretty darn clean.

Great idea on CH16 LSB. In fact during the pile up this afternoon on 38 I was thinking the very same thing... lets try to spread out a bit and use other channels. I run barefoot to an A99 and with a little effort I was able to talk to a few stations in KY and 33 in IL though it really was just a...

Sorry to hear that it didn't go well. I have made a few T2LTs before. Most recently I tested one out in my yard attached to just a piece of PVC in a tripod on the ground. I was able to talk with locals ~5-15 miles that day and I was just messing around for a half and hour or so trying to make a...

NF822WNY : Thanks for sharing this with your thread. I have been interested in doing something similar myself and getting into this smaller niche of the hobby. Have you ever played with the T2LT vertical dipole? All you need is some coax and a collapsing fishing pole and you have a very portable...

Grogan, it's mostly pirates.. love that scene.. ever since I was a kid, it has always captured my interest. However lately I enjoy chasing Brazilian and other exotic South American domestics.

I moved into the area in 96 actually ha! Snow not so bad this year... but I hear ya.. we definitely get our share.

Thanks guys for the welcome. Here is a radio that I just picked up and received yesterday, it's an Otron CB-400 40 channel AM, Korean made, included the box and all of the paperwork. Decent shape, almost like new it appears. Internally it needs some cleaning and aligning though. Audio has tons...