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Code has been dropped completely for several years now.Time to crawl out from under that rock. HI HI Rich

Back in the 70's someone produced a luggage rack CB antenna for shaggen wagens. Just construct a 1/2 wave bent dipole out of copper tubing, mount it as high as you can with non conductive mounts. Feed it with a 1:1 balun, and trim for good SWR and field strength. RICH

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What wou8ld I do, use it Use it like it is, it may already have filters in it, have you checked. mods.dk is where to go for mods.

You should get the coil above the roof.

I drove charter bus for a while. 40 ft Vanhool. You need to keep the top down around 13ft 6 inches. Don't know how tall the body is, but you want to get the coil above it. If you can't, then get it as far from the body as possible. Joe Walsh used to lose antennas of the back of tour buses all...

Ya, the all band doublet is the way to go. Just cut a 1/2 wave dipole for the lowest band that will fit your place, feed it with 300 or 450 twin lead to that tuner I posted and play. I have one for 75/80 meter, and made contacts from 160-6 meter.

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As far as antenna, if you already have CB antenna, that will work well on 10 meter, with the tuner. Then when you upgrade to general you can put up something for more bands. If you are using an A99 on 11 now, you have 10,15, and 17 covered already.

Stay very far away from Doosey. I would recommend a MJF949, gives you watt/swr meter and antenna tuner all in one. http://www.randl.com/shop/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=5020&products_id=24714 Rich N8FGB

Some cordless keyboards and mice use 27 mhz rc channels. I hear the neighbors on 27.145 all the time. Rich

If you cut the blue wire the radio will self destruct.

"I am not a number!" Patrick Mcgoohan, The Prisoner.

You might want to learn a little about SWR, harmonics, and what a driver is before messing amplifiers. Rich

I was looking them myself. They use Sparky to demo the device at trade shows. You can buy almost everything premade from Russia off Ebay. Those guys build some neat components, All you need is copper plate and heatsink.

Is this a different IC 718, mine has no channels or selector. It does have a VFO, A and B. Rich

I would go with the Uniden 980. Do not have it peeked and tweeked, will decertify the radio and blow the finals.Mount it in a well vented area to keep from getting to hot, and have fun. Just remember "broadcasting" is not legal, you transmit to another station. Rich

How do you get RF in and out to your radios then. If you have antenna feedlines and electrical wires coming into to you room, then EMP can enter too.

"What makes Ameritron AL-1200 stand out from other legal limit amplifiers? The answer: a heavy duty power supply that loafs at full legal power. It can deliver power of more than 2500 watts PEP two tone output for a half hour!" There is you 2250 legal limit. I like the 1200 myself, a ceramic...

Nothing worse than trying work a 5 watt station in the south pacific, and then hear, "triple nickel in the great lakes, and I just got down'