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I highly doubt the two flares caused any outages to the cellular network. They were X-1.7 and X-1.8 level and although quite strong, were nowhere near the class X-20+ level we had a number of years ago that occurred without any major problems. It was rated as a 20+ because the true level was...

OK that is not the image I saw on the other site I am on. I checked it again and the other tower I was thinking of was not stolen. It had its guy wires cut and it fell. THAT is the one we were talking about being a case of fraud. Sorry about that.

Keep an eye on the news. Pretty sure this is a case of fraud. One site I frequent made up of current/former broadcast techs and engineers has been discussing this and one mentioned it was a potential fraud/insurance scam.

Cannot view it. Says it is not shared.

Tantalum caps have a much better thermal stability than electrolytics and are prefered in some situations because of it such as oscillators etc. I would not simply sub out and replace them with a regular electrolytic unless they were simply in a bypass or audio series feed application.

Any microphone can be made to work on any radio if you wire it properly. You have a wiring mistake somewhere. Been using the Turner +3B since the late 70's and never found a radio yet it wouldn't work with.

A good operator will either announce his listening frequency or simple say something like "listening five up" meaning he is listening five kilohertz higher.

I did commercial electronic servicing for 22 years and things like this really get too me. LOL I get almost obsessed with trying to find out WHY. LOL

OK now that I have read it again......and again......I am thinking they left out a ground. I;m guessing the meter lights use a single power wire and simply connect to the chassis on the other side. Sounds like that jack should have been connected to chassis ground. Both + and - wires from the...

OK so the power cord is good but the jack is bad. One normally assumes the jack is good hence my suggestion that the cord was bad.

The power supply going to the meter has a broken negative lead somewhere. ONLY thing it can be. Try a different cord to the meter.

Maybe because FM is legal and some people actually like the quality of FM.

Spacing looks too small for my likings. It will likely arc. Reactance voltages get stupidly high on the lower bands. What kind of plate voltage and power output are you looking at?

It was basically a gimmick with no real world advantages other than the RF output components running a bit cooler but proper design would do the same thing.

DSBSC or Double SideBand Supressed Carrier as it is called is basically what you guys do to your CB radios aka crazy peak to average power ratios like half a watt swinging to 25 watts or the like. Granted the carrier is never zero but you can see how much louder it becomes the greater the...

Nothing whatsoever wrong with what Mike aka SP5IT said. It is all true. FWIW I actually have that MFJ-264 dummy load and there is NO WAY I would put any more than 100 watts into it. Sure it is rated at 1500 watts but read the manual with it..........for a MAXIMUM of 10 seconds. There is a...

Not exactly a daily driver. Nice VHF/UHF Rover station however.

I miss common sense, respect, and a good work ethic. None of those are very common any more.

I guess that would make the liberal party just plain ordinary morons then.

I find that most of those who do that are CBers that became hams. They are so used to frequencies ending in either a five or a zero that if you call on something like 14.221.7 they will call you out for being off frequency. If I choose that as MY frequency to call on, how can I be off frequency?