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  1. Captain Kilowatt

    Pagers .... Now Handie Talkies

    Great job by Mossad agents Moti Rola, Sam Sung and Gal Axy
  2. Captain Kilowatt

    Chinese cb base antenna

    100 watts? Remember those are Chinese watts. Just like everything else from China the specs are inflated. Figure 25 real world watts. :ROFLMAO:
  3. Captain Kilowatt

    Anyone Know?

    Well Inam an admin here and I never saw a request to change your name. Where did you post/request it? Tell what you want as a new name and I will do it. As for the premium membership, Moleculo will handle that.
  4. Captain Kilowatt

    Ground mounted cb vertical antenna

    Just a note but elevated radials versus ground radials is quite a difference. Four elevated radials will more than equal 32 radials laid out on the ground. The reason is ground losses. ANY antenna with radials will perform much better with fewer elevated radials than with a similar number of...
  5. Captain Kilowatt

    Hustler btv5 revisited. Again

    When I bought my 5BTV I followed the instructions in that link. The resonant points were centred much better in the bands and overall performance was not too bad considering what the antenna is. I took it down last year but now with NO antennas at all up I am considering putting it back up for...
  6. Captain Kilowatt

    What is the best Braid to use for removal of solder.

    FWIW I have used both Chem-Wick and MG Chemicals and like both. They come in various size braids so choose the appropriate size and you should be good. Sometimes on an old joint I will add fresh solder before desoldering tghe entire thing.
  7. Captain Kilowatt

    WTB Quansheng/Anysecu UV 5K Setup as Single Band 11 Meter

    Yeah, OK then. I knew for a FACT it was NOT able to do as stated with a simple software mod even with a firmware update.
  8. Captain Kilowatt

    WTB Quansheng/Anysecu UV 5K Setup as Single Band 11 Meter

    That is a VHF/UHF hand held with FM only and a range of 50-600 MHz. Full power and all modes on 11m? Is it April 1 already?
  9. Captain Kilowatt

    Summer has arrived!!

    That is almost disgusting. My cold water runs around 52-53 degrees.........summer or winter. Then again it comes from 100 feet down in the well. Had to install temperature balancing taps in the shower to keep from getting scalded if the wife started the laundry while someone was in the shower.
  10. Captain Kilowatt

    Lets logically end the LMR-400 debate.

    On any reasonable run of cable the dielectric losses of the cable will far outweigh any ohmic losses in the centre conductor. IOW.......don't worry about splitting hairs over whether the centre conductor is solid or stranded unless a rotator is involved and then there is NO question that...
  11. Captain Kilowatt

    Who else thinks they are blocking the skip with chemtrails or haarp?

    I have seen pictures of the aliens captured at Area 51 back in 1947 too, but that doesn't mean the pictures were real.
  12. Captain Kilowatt

    Who else thinks they are blocking the skip with chemtrails or haarp?

    I think he is saying sit back, chill out, have a beer and learn something about CONtrails.
  13. Captain Kilowatt

    Who else thinks they are blocking the skip with chemtrails or haarp?

    Well the several Earth directed CME's over the last several days has a LOT to do with it. Sunspots=good. CME=bad.
  14. Captain Kilowatt

    Freebanding for Beginners

    OK call me brave but since I am on a laptop with REAL virus protection I clicked on his link above. All good as far as I can see. I won't comment as to quality but will let others decide for themselves. All I will say is that I have no problem looking at his stuff which is stored on a cloud-drive.
  15. Captain Kilowatt

    Portable Generator Power Quality Questions

    I have never had a problem with my generator. I know the waveform looks pretty clean but honestly never really looked at it REAL close, mostly because I never had a problem. The brand is a Wallenstein, made in Ontario Canada. It uses an Italian made alternator unit driven by a 13 hp Honda engine...
  16. Captain Kilowatt

    TV Commercial Volume Stabilized.

    To be completely honest, I wasn't even thinking about digital TV. I’m still stuck in an analog world. LOL You could be right about the higher dynamic range available. Something else to consider too is the knowledge........or lack thereof.....in today's broadcast techs. Back in my day, we did...
  17. Captain Kilowatt

    TV Commercial Volume Stabilized.

    Yeah.....that's not exactly what they do nor is it the reason they do it. For YEARS commercials have seemed louder than program content due too higher compression levels. Compression can have the same peak volume level but higher average levels which is what makes the commercials sound louder...
  18. Captain Kilowatt

    Landslide blocks river in BC

    Yeah I forgot the year they had the big burn but that is sure a big part of it. With the recent rains the entire area was pretty much saturated with water. That along with not much for vegetation to hold things in place is what lead to the slide.
  19. Captain Kilowatt

    Landslide blocks river in BC

    They expected it to overflow possibly late yesterday or today but I haven't heard anything about it yet. Hopefully it will simply overflow as expected and gradually release pressure and headwaters. It is 2000 feet long and over 100 feet deep right in the river channel so it likely will not let...
  20. Captain Kilowatt

    High Gain Mobile Antenna

    By contrast I also have a really old.......25 years or so old..........Comet CA2x4SR dual band mobile antenna with the same fold-over base. I had it for YEARS before I even knew it had the fold-over feature. LOL I don't remember how many times I mounted/unmounted that antenna until one day...