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Finally chased down the bad component in my 139XLR. C104 shorted. PITA to find. I should have it on the air this afternon. CH 37LSB. 73. - J.J. 399

WDX1863 - A couple of days ago I had a ton of contacts, including 3 from the Keystone. Heard one PA station today, but couldn't quite pull him out. If you're gonna be on tomorrow, I'll listen for you. Channel 37LSB. Hope to hear you. 73. J.J. 399

Dx looks a little closer to normal today . gonna head down to the shack and give it a try. J.J. 399

Yesterday was the feast . . . Today was the famine. I could hear all sorts of stations, but no one could hear me. I guess it was a huge pileup in the mid and south west because I couldn't punch through no matter how hard I tried. Stations that did come back were so deep in the mud that all I...

Strange day for DXing. Turned on the Q6PRO at 10Am and just lots of static. About 11Am I heard 427 Arkansas call CQ. Shouted back and had a nice QSO. Then 142 N. Carolina, 141 Tenn, 411 ohio, 50 Louisanna, 707, 0507, 307, 972, 320 and AK5 all out of the Lonestar. 313 PA, 3164 PA, 124 PA, 383 FL...

COBRA 139XLR (or any Uniden 858SSB chassis.) Great audio with built-in mike amp and speech clipper. Super receive with adjacent channel rejection mod. Easily modifiable for extra freqs and zero channels. Easy FM conversion available. Built like a tank. J.J. 399

About 10 minutes after I hit the shack, it started raining - HARD. Then came the thunder and lightning. Off and on the rest of the afternoon. No radion' for me today. Maybe better manana. Forecast is for sunny skies. Crossing my fingers. J.J. 399

MIdwestern and Southern US looks good, so I'm going to give 37LSB a shot at 1pm today. J.J. 399

Brandon - I believe your theory has merit. However I think it would only work on a freq completely free from any other rf signals. In the periods of no voice (and no carrier) the receiver's AM detector would latch on to another carrier, garbling up the audio. Similar to SSB relay chatter in an...

I copied the mail on 37LSB most of the day. Lots of traffic, all from central and southern US. Never keyed up. Working on my sick Cobra radio. Still needs more work. Hit it again manana. 73. J J. 399

Live propagation shows a lot of DX into SA, but not much into Colombia. I'll fire up the Q6 at 12-12:30 and give it a try. 23 BC Coyote and DrDX, I"ll be giving you both a shoutout. 73 all. - J.J. 399

I recently bought a RETEVIS TR635 Digital AM/FM/SW radio for use in my shop. I chose this radio because I had purchased a TR618 AM/FM/SW Analog dial radio for my son-in-law and it was great. The 635 was a total disappointment, and I posted a review on Amazon saying so. I tried to return it, but...

Conditions were pretty sketchy today. Made a few contacts with stations in Fl, GA, S. Carolina, and one in TX. But no one had the "robust" sound I'm used to hearing. I heard Mark, 4D29 calling as I was shutting down, but didn't hear Dr.DX. Maybe tomorrow. 73 J.J. 399

Someone tried to hack my WWDX account this morning, so I changed my password. Evidentally, this signed my off of the forum, and when I attempted to sign back on, the page was loaded with look-a-like WWDX sign-on pages telling me to re-register. Hacker Bullshit !! I deleted all of this crap and...

Buenos Dias, Amigos - I guess this time of year, earth's northern hemisphere is the most sun-facing and suffering the most effects of the solar flares. Here, we are technically in the northern hemi ( 200 mi N of the equator). But this morning DX is strong from the Eastern US, and the Mid and...

There are several Mistakes/Omissions in the TRC449 Schemo. Especially in the driver/final area. Maybe others too. J.J. 399

Had a nice long QSO with 338 (Kevin) Lake Wells FL yesterday late afternoon (5:30 pm) and 561 (Nick) also out of Florida. Both 9+ into my receive. Kevin on an ICOM 7300 and Nick running a Quad 6 PRO. Both still coming in strong at 6:30pm when it started storming here and I signed off for the...

People always make fun of something that they don't understand. - J.J. 399

SECRET CB Volume 3, page 25. The illustrations in the early SCB volumes left a lot to be desired. But I think you will figure it out. - J.J. 399

Same strange conditions here too. Everthing East of the mississippi was in the mud. West of Ole Miss was a different story. Calif, Arizona, Colorado and Washington State all sounded like they were my neighbors. Totally in the red on my old Cobra. 101 Socal and I hooked up for a solid 20 minute+...