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That is like the laser I seen for sale for $75 But on the internet elsewhere is $40 Stylish 3V 405nm 100mW Violet Purple Blue Laser Pointer Pen - DinoDirect.com Damn hams

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Question to everyone, If he was able to put the apex of the dipole on the chimney and get the wires out in the open more, would that help?

I like these events, small enough it doesnt crowd the bands but big enough you can get on many of the bands and make a contact. I am not a huge fan of contesting, but I will get out there for the fun of seeing where I talked to today :)

Those do make sense, I just mean the average person who watches TV or listens to a am/fm radio, when "technology fails", then what. I just see all this interest in my town for these new hams to take the storm watch classes and they ask them to monitor HF for the hurricane nets. What in the...

In this day of technology is there really any reason for an amateur radio hurricane net? I mean, what is the benefit for anyone but other amateurs? Am I missing anything here?

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Let me ask a few questions so I might understand? Do you have a vhf/uhf antenna hooked up? Have you made any contacts at all or have you just heard other stations? What are you using to check swr? is it the built in meter on the radio? Who assembled the coax? Is shield soldered to the PL-259...

This is an interesting thread because I have a slight issue of what is "cb jargon" No I am not doubting what you are hearing is "cb jargon", but all of it? I have traveled this country quite a bit, and the dialect of some regions are amazing to me. There are some that I would think talk...