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If that is what your radio had, and it should be, than the chassis/frame of the radio, and the shield of the antenna, are joined electrically.

so you're saying your SO-239 does not look like this?

what vehicle?

another day with the band wide open, many contacts to south america and a few into alaska

I guess it must be working, 3 days in a row, had contacts on 10M from 3500-5500 miles, longest was from here in Va to CA7CAQ in Chile

Well..went from a stuffed basement of CB gear to turning the basement to storage, now it's the start of the budget ham shack. When from bare walls and floor to freebie cabinets/counter tops, next was lighting, more outlets, and 12V wall plates to a remote power supply. 2M radio is a Motorola...

looks like another good band opening, plenty of west coast in strong to Va, and some international

booming again tonight, farthest contact to date to Brazil/CA7CAQ who is approx 5613 miles out. Amazed how well my ghetto setup is doing

it was nice walking out with 2 bags of stuff for $30. Guy at register did the "man thats cheap, what are you gonna use it all for?" "I dunno, but I'm gonna get it before the next guy does"., I was bored, totaled up the "regular prices...$214. Not that I would have ever paid it

I just picked up a PILE of stuff as they're doing inventory. Most stuff I got was 75+% off. Picked up the 8 terminal binding post plates Eight-Terminal A/V Wall Plate : Wall Plates | RadioShack.com for 0.97 among other things, work great for quick connection of radios for testing and...

another booming afternoon...

Larry, I guess it's time for me to find another 11M rig to fire up and see if we can get a QSO in. It's been a while since I've been on the air, been playing around on 10M a little more as of late, but I have had a pile of contacts in WA/NV/AK, so the conditions have been your way. I'll see what...

yup, I shut off at 11PM EST and there were still a fair amount of stations out there, for once I wasn't run out by the "south of the border"crew

nice band opening now..working coast to coast with an HTX-10 and 16' of speaker wire shoved in a piece of pvc

sounds like a plan, 10 was pretty busy this afternoon, had 2 2500+ mile QSOs with 25w and a speaker wire dipole 8ft off the roof.

easiest solution, put a switch on the speaker leads. I did the same thing years back in a mobile setup. 3 position switch on one of the speaker leads, you're done.

So in the quest for more gear, I have acquired a couple different radios, which aren't going to end up being as useful as I had hoped(for what I want at least), so they need to go on the chopping block so I can get what I want. All radios are set up currently for low band freqs(46-48 range)...

haha, it came in the package when I went to get 2 freebie tv antennas/2 rotors and 2 tripods. I got the parts I needed for a couple HF beams, and well..I guess I get another 11M antenna in the process...trust me, everything I get is in that price range...

That's what I'm seeing if it is the same model, I was figuring that odd base on the second section would be a giveaway to somebody. But it def appears the thing was a funky powder blue color at some point! Debating at this point if I want to invest too much effort in it....but hey, the $ was right!

Hey Jeff, long time it has been! Sold all my radio gear a while back, but then for some reason I went and got my ticket, now I'm back in the radio game... I'm looking at the RS info now to see if it a match.