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Exactly! It seems to ALWAYS be contest! Like I said, having someone repeat my callsign for a new personal best long distance is fun, but only for about 30 seconds. I want to TALK to these people a bit!

LOL. Some kind of huge old tube jobber....then later he got a Drake TR7.

So I'm basically a year old ham, and learning, as some of you know. I'm interested in radio tech, to a certain degree....I mean I do have a radio, after all. Heh. What I guess I miss out on is a good rag chew with some new people in other areas. My grandpa put me on his knee 25-30 years ago...

My junk, for anyone interested....

I read a couple 30-40 year old books from my grandfather, and stuff from my old electronics text books from 16 years ago. Don't really remember the titles without digging them out, but that was mostly theory refresher. For FCC laws and practice tests I got most of that info online. I didn't...

Interesting responses. I'm not planning on an amplifier any time soon. Not sure my wiring and cheap tuner, and homemade antenna will support it at this point. Nor will my income any time soon. The directional antenna sounds good, but it will be pretty much single band, right? or not? A...

I get that. I try to be polite though, and I have a got a lot of the "I don't want anything to do with the new idiot attitude" from the old timers. Just my experience. I listen more then I talk when I'm asking a question though. Some people don't get the whole idea of "when asking a...

I didn't read the whole thread....but I'll respond to your first post. I'm a new inexperienced ham operator. I'm 34. I'll give my perspective. You're right, it doesn't appeal to anyone anymore. Kids today grow up with cellphones and laptops than can talk to people half a world away a lot...

Or alternately, what length homemade antenna could I put up which would give me access to the most bands I haven't played around with yet? I think if I hang a 20m antenna its pretty much single band?

So, pardon my ignorance, but I'm new, and learning. I have my ham general license, and an ICOM 718 stock radio, with a antron 199 10m antenna which I also use for 11m, and a homemade wire antenna for 40m and 15m. I can also tune it to 18m with a little extra swr. My question is: What is the...

Me too. I had a good beer buzz going when I was using it, and I am still learning. I'm glad it was something stupid. Apparently a minor technical problem exists between the chair and the interface. I'll pick it back up from KDGOE tomorrow probably and try to figure out what went wrong in my...

That is not a bad idea.

Thank god!

I'm still kinda new to the radio scene and learning. Please bear with my lack of experience. If this question is not in the right area of the forum, I apologize. I need some help. I think my radio broke tonite. I have an ICOM 718, and a MFJ Versa Tuner II antenna tuner, and a couple...

So I've been using a modified PC power supply with my ICOM718 for a while. It works OK but doesn't really put out the amperage I need.... One of the HAMs at work gave me an old linear power supply he had kicking around for free to help me out. It says 29 amps on it, and its a heavy brick. It...

Trying to sign up...when I click the signup link in the first post, I get a broken link. KD2HQK over here....Matt. Can I sign up? Thanks.

Yeah I'm looking for another ham setup. Got CBs already....

Drake TR7 Transceiver + Drake MN2700 Tuner, + PSU + Mic This a complete set, includes mic. It belonged to my grandfather for years, who bought it new. He handed it down to me, as he's getting up there in years (92) and hasn't really used it the past few years. The good: It was very well...

Looks sweet, I may have to do something similar..... good idea.

what? no.... I'm not blacklisted from anything...nor do I run a black list myself? IDK what you're talking about.