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Could I get some money if I "sue" my cellphone?:lol: Just kidding! CWM

Try International Crystal Manufacturing Co, OK city OK. Or Jan Crystals in Florida. I think they are still around. May be expensive, tho when you can older synthesized rigs for $40. Consider this, too: Many repeaters now require a tone encode (often 100 HZ) which the HR-212 doesn't have. Nice...

Just for comparison, a friend of mine went to a hamfest this weekend and bought a KDK 2M synsithized (sic?) with a tone board for 50 bucks. Works fine (so far:wink:). He, too, is preparing to take the exam. There's plenty of better deals around and a lot of repeaters are tone encoded nowadays...

If you like to "tinker" why not make a simple 1/4 wave vertical out of a (AW, I just forgot the designator for the connector)...but it's the base version of the PL-259---the part you coax screws into:sad:! Can't think of the number right now. DRAT! Anyway, take that MALE connector and a flat...

A rudimentary way to do it is to listen to WWV, Fort Collins, CO on 2.5, 5, 10. 15, and 20 MHZ. Not a truly accurate way (other ways have been mentioned here), but it can getcha sorta, kinda, maybe close if you're looking at/for the MUF. Your "ear" will eventually become better and you will...

I don't know if the two avocations (CB and ham) can be accurately compared because it is a matter of apples and oranges. IOW, sure, ham equipment CAN be expensive, But when you speak of the value for the money, can there really be a comparison? That $1200 Icom 7000 is actually several radios in...

I can't argue with any of this. All I am saying (for me), I never ran into any situation where coax became a reason something didn't work right. I just trimmed the antenna to length, used appropriate matching at the feedpoint (if needed), and it always worked out. I never CARED about getting...

The VF thing.....that's why said I simply ignore VF. It doesn't make enough difference to worry about. So I don't even figure it into things. Besides, by the time you get it into the air, it's all gonna change again anyway due to surroundings, etc. I just get kinda amused at how people can get...

But isn't the whole idea to have a RESONANT, EFFICIENT RADIATOR (antenna) at the frequency of interest? It IS MY opinion that coax length is simply HOOEY and and a lot of false effort when one can simply tune the radiating system AT the antenna by shortening or lengthening the whip, removing or...

Now THAT's the BEST comeback I've seen YET!!! Ya gots me there!!!!!!!!! Thanks! After the day I've had today, I NEEDED that one!!:lol::lol: LMAO! (And its done with ONE coax, too!) CWM

I'm one of those who believes coax length is a bunch of ^&%#. I NEVER even consider "coax length" in an installation, and I've been doing installs since 1965! Never even HEARD of such a thing.......until I heard it from a CBer. And I :lol:rolled in the floor when I DID hear it. Sure, there are...

Aw, now you wouldn't be referring to another popular pastime I know of, now would you?:biggrin:

I've had one Yaesu (no problems until old), Two Kenwood TS50's w/ no probs. and 4 Icoms, 737, no issues, 3 IC 706's, all bought new, One sent for repair, that was 10 years ago when they first came out. The mobile (the next oldest) NO problems), One use for base, NO problems--all at least 7 years...

The government has been sued before.............and LOST! It is an "iffy" proposition. CWM

If you go back to the 'Hollingsworth era", you will see that he did exactly that! Prior to his arrival, amateur radio had become a TOTAL cesspool, and one frequency in particular comes to mind: 14.313 where you could hear the most VILE and filthy talk ever. These people, who did NOT deserve the...

[QUOTE=mackmobile43;169552]I do not hate hams, I hate that hams are allowed to control what the FCC does in that many of the top members there hold Amateur licenses and are obviously partisan. I do not believe this is accurate. If you read the "employment" notices at the FCC's site, you will...

QSL Managers Ham Links [Articles Home] [Add Article] Articles by Category Antennas Contesting DXing Editorial Emergency/Public Service General How To Humor News Operating Opinion Products Propagation Radios Regulatory Space ARNewsline # 1689 -- December 25 2009: Bill Pasternak...

That might backfire on the city AND Walmart if they lost a case. The aggrieved party just might prove in a new trial that there was prejudice against him because the other parties LOST. With the $$ he won (maybe) he could afford to shoot the city the bird, move away from the city and tell...

When I typed that post about "trapping" Walmart and the cop, I was laughing my a--off. It WOULD be fun and I believe it would work! Can you just IMAGINE the shock and horror of Walmart and the officer when you produced a sales receipt for LEGAL radios that THEY improperly seized? What kind of...

Chop and I exchanged a couple of private messages about it! What would be funny is to go to Walmart and buy a couple of legal radios. I'm not all that familiar with MURS and FRS except for the frequency allocations (vaguely). But I would, if it were possible, get MURS radios from the SAME...