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I experimented with this years ago. If you are only interested in talking DX, there is no point in putting an antenna more than ONE wavelength high. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by going higher UNLESS you are doing it to clear solid obstructions such as a building or hillside which...

Not sure if I'll have much time for radio today. We have family coming up for a visit and my youngest leaves for college on Saturday morning so there is LOTS of stuff going on here! I will try and sneak out to the shop from time to time and see if anything happening on the radio.

JJ I heard you clear as a bell up here this afternoon. Heard 100% of your conversation with 785 & 204 Florida and 327 Alabama. I could hear both sides but you were much louder than they were. Go figure! Tried QSKing and CQing a few times but couldn't get through. Those good 'ole boys are a...

Qixiang, a Chinese company, make Anytone, Radioddity, and the newer Stryker and CRT radios. Anytone is Qixiang's "house" brand, and their most common radios are the original 6666, The 6666Pro, and a slew of versions of the 5555, the newest of which is the "short case" 5555N2. They are all...

Just got home from cutting wood. Band is open.... JJ I tried calling you but to no avail. I did end up making two contacts in Texas (again!) and one in Louisiana. S9+10 signal from 4090 Houston! Skip just needs to go a little longer for Colombia..... I'll keep trying on 37.

You may want to check your receive as well. The entire CB band has been very busy with signals most of this week. You should at least be hearing stuff on 6, 11, 19, 28 etc. If those channels are quiet too you may have more than one issue.........

The Stryker won't NEED an alignment. They are plug and play right out of the box. Any radio that needs a "peak and tune" before you can use it is a radio not worth considering........

I won't be on the air until the afternoon (our time) JJ...... I have to keep working on filling the woodshed in the morning before the heat of the day! It might be nice and hot out now, but in just a few months we'll be needing a fire to stave off the cold and damp....... Mostly been hanging...

Fantastic DX day yesterday......at least in the morning and midday. Had quite the pipeline to the Houston area and talked to no less than nine stations in a row in Houston LOL! Then the skip zone moved eastward and I had contacts in Louisiana and Arkansas for an hour. Lots and lots of South...

Check that you don't have the +10 KHz switch turned on. It should be off for normal operation.

Sounds like you have the right meters. When I do run an amp with my 5555N2 I run AM deadkey at just under 1 watt. Remember it's the swing that kills amps, not the deadkey! What kind of amp was it? The RM Italy ones seem to be ultra-sensitive.........I know a couple people that bought them and...

That's exactly what I'm referring too..... The one my neighbors had alternated between loud white noise and a motorboat sound. And just like Greg, it wiped out my receive. I spent a bunch of $ to buy the neighbors a system that didn't create RFI. Now everyone is happy.

Pretty much guarantee it. The thing is if you don't have a proper peak reading watt meter you will see less power from the 5555N2 than what it is actually putting out on peaks. It's very easy to overdrive an amp with that radio unless you've gone into the service menu and turned deadkey way...

One or more of the amp transistors is shorted internally and that is where all your current and voltage is going. Dud transistor is probably getting very hot so should be easy to figure out which one(s) are at fault. Good Luck with it. Glad it wasn't a radio problem!

Do you mean an amp you were running external to the radio, or do you mean you removed the final PA stage from the radio? Just curious as you never mentioned an external amp in your original post.........

Work day for me but I had the shop radio on 38 and later on 555 and I heard DX coming in on and off all day.......... California & Hawaii in the midday on 38. Later the skip went very very long and 38 was dead, but deep South America (Brazil, Argentina etc.) was booming in on 555USB and...

I had something similar happen recently with my 5555N2 and it was the crappy fuse holder. I replaced it with a heavy duty holder and everything went back to normal.

Conditions have slowly been improving out here. Had Southern Cal, Florida, Kentucky, Jamaica, a ton of Carolina's, Mexico & Hawaii so far today........ Second day in row with decent skip. Hope conditions come around soon for those of you without........I feel your pain!

1972. I was 7 years old and was fascinated by my Moms kitchen table radio. I was convinced there were tiny people in there singing and talking; so one day while Mom was busy with laundry I snuck some tools from Dads workshop and took the back off the radio.. No tiny people were in there but...

I'm pretty sure it will be what I suspected at the very beginning of this long thread......which is an internet-over-powerline system in the neighbors house. I had that issue here and paid out of pocket to switch the neighbor to a wired ethernet/wifi system.