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  1. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    wow. we had a thunder boomer here yesterday. pulled the cork n let er sleep
  2. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    last night i talked to 245 in smoky mtns along with a couple of his neighbors. we managed a breif but quality signal till somebody jumped in speaking a spanish direlect
  3. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    you were diving? listening to radio? haha ive hit wrong keys also.i worked all day n got home radio was on but showered ,are n went to sleep
  4. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    i had em again from 5 pm till way up in the night.odd we got 2 inches rain in our parched area. very very rare to see rain early august. usually at the end as we get ready to pick corn n get stuck
  5. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    sad part there are many still operatable stations everywhere but choose to rarely talk. 3 or 5 not far from me that talk skip but they never talk to anybody local. odd way to be but takes all kinds i guess
  6. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    nothing yesterday.no radioing last nite due to very rare occurance in my area.lots of rain n lightning in AUGUST. trying to remember last time we got much needed rain in august
  7. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    few far away voices mainly aus,and fla ,nj but way weak. glad you can talk to your brother. my closest cb friend moved back to pa. then next close friend died. 3 in springfield mo but noisy n hard to break through the noise. sadly used to talk to few on 2 meters some died rest quit and cb same thing
  8. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    might say im like a buzzard o a limb waiting to pounce on varmin,cept im watin to pounce on dx
  9. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    no radioing last night .got home hurting bad nuff i showered ate n went to sleep
  10. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    last nite 1 contac 141 doug in east tennessee and he was local using a k40 on his car,and J.J. UNIT 99 he was using new q6666 like yours
  11. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    had long hard day yesterday. i ate supper showered looked at radios n was naaa n went to sleep.hope somebody got some dxin in
  12. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    Thank you captain killowatt .it was in my mind but foggy old brain was holding name down
  13. Rwb

    anybody try a yaesu ft 3185rasp yet?

    And farther up same story
  14. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    There are good points where you are id say lots of math and trial n error but him being ex military radio guy he probably had some idea.a compas might be a tool as well as ,dang it cant think o its name now but they use em on ships to look at a star to get angles and refrence point?
  15. Rwb

    anybody try a yaesu ft 3185rasp yet?

    Dont say much for technology progress and yeasu does it captain killowatt?
  16. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    dont as k how he did it but a guy down on table rock lake bought a property in a revene thats very narrow. a sight unseen buy. but set up a tall rohn tower . went up sides of the revene and placed sheets of reflective metal and worked till he was getting out .he secured the reflectors. has it...
  17. Rwb

    anybody try a yaesu ft 3185rasp yet?

    must decided to expensive to sell. and when i see the size ,its huge. that decided for me. since the fluke covid hit it sure tore the world up
  18. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    when limb broke coupler on my sirro 2008 i didnt get it fully extended. made a jib pole and put pully on it. hand comealong pulled the needed 10 feet up to where its 35 ft to base of antenna, swr flat very flat on 11 meters 10 and 12 it rises to 1:2 to1 to 1:3 to 1. anyhow heard stout...
  19. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    wasnt good here. lots of voices signal strenght was good but never got a comeback
  20. Rwb

    11 meter is very quiet?

    shut swr meter off. antenna is close nuff . i got rid of my 6666 i never grew to l shut swr meter off.6666 meters are scrwey. and leave antenna alone.its at the point trim a 1/16" n it might go up elsewhere. i traded my 6666 off never got a liking for it