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Congrats I just got my callsign yesterday....KD2HQK.....it takes like 7 business days....at least it did for me. Hope to meet you on the waves soon.

You're a flyer, huh? My uncle Bob is a flyer too. He was an electronics engineer before he went into professional flying. He took me and my dad for a airborne tour over the grand canyon and the hoover dam and the Elvis green and stuff since he lives in Las Vegas. He's been working in...

I'm just curious where everyone came from? I come from a moderate electronics background. I went to BOCES for a technical education for 2 years, and got a cert, than went to college at Bryant and Statton for "Technical Electronics" which was basically a 2 year degree in circuit...

LOL I also share the obsession with knotted cable. I did a few years pulling cat5 at businesses all over during the beginning of my IT career. I used to tell people I was I was a professional untangler. I think that's where it came from with me.... You can give me 1000 ft of the most knotted...

Yeah I know man. I have cheat sheets taped all behind my radio. Its a wall of charts. Meters to freq conversions, frequency allocation charts, broadcast stations for other countries, region charts, Q codes, CB channel = freq layout. Cheat sheet of what freqs I can be on and if they are only...

I live like a mile from MKube in Buffalo....we are friends. We got hit hard with the white stuff. Dude Kube, that is hilarious with the Doritos truck. My buddy Tom that lives 1 street from you was telling me about watching people breaking into it and robbing the Doritos

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I just studied online....didnt want to buy anything, I'm poor. heh. Did you buy the books? Worth it?

Congrats! I just passed my tech, and general today in 1 session. I'm stoked....bet you are too. Maybe we'll meet up on the waves sometime.... I have an old Drake TR-7 from my grandpa, so with the Tech the only thing I could really use anyways is 10m because of my equipment, so it was a no...

Stupid question, but how do I make a signature line like yours, I'd like to list my equipment....and I don't see a signature option in my profile setup page.... Edit: Nevermind, figured it out...

Just got my general ticket! Bam, get er' done!

Took the license test(s) today....I killed the Tech with only 1 wrong, then failed the General by 1 question. Was bummed so I paid my 15 bucks and took a second crack at it....NAILED it. I'm stoked! Now I can legally use my old Drake TR-7 grandpappy handed down to me. Hope to talk to some of...

So I've been stuck under 6' of snow lately....how's everyone else doing? I been trying to un-bury my house.

Cable is crappy Rg-58. No amp except the one in the drake itself....I have to turn down the output sooooooooo low to have it not reboot...prob like 5 watts. Also, I've tried plugging the cable box into different circuits with an extension cord, no change. As for lightening, lets be honest...

So I tried switching the boxes today. Problem stays in the same room as my radio....no matter what box I'm using. 20 feet away from the radio in one of the adjacent walled off rooms, this box doesn't reboot either. So its definitely proximity to the radio itself causing the issue...

My house was built in the 50's. ALL my pipes are iron, everywhere. I have tried the ground radial kit, it seems to do nothing at all. I can try the coffee can trick though....Ill also try some of those chokes you mentioned. When you say antenna feed point, you mean at the radio, or at the...

Well, to answer some questions. I'm using an Antron A99 antenna, mounted to my chimney, like this. Its grounded to that huge crapper vent pipe with a couple pieces of romex I pulled out of a electrical wire and twisted together. The a99 is mounted on the top of that pole you see. I haven't...

So, I'm rocking an old Drake TR7 ham transceiver on 11m CB for now till I get my license. It works great....except every time I transmit, I am rebooting my Direct TV box.... It does this on 10M too. It totally F's up the box to the point where it reboots and needs to reformat itself, and it...