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This is a good radio! I've had one a couple of weeks, and it runs "neck-to-neck" with my old President Grant Classic "export" in all modes. PLUS, it covers all of 10 meters! Can't beat that for $320.00, as the quality is light-years ahead of the Galaxy, SuperStar, etc. stuff. (I have the older...

Good deal - I monitor that frequency 24/7 on the weekend unless I step out to go to the store or something. During the week, I usually monitor it from about 3:30-11:00 PST. I'll switch over to my vertical as you are probably too far away from me to reach very well with the loop. Oh...

CDX-007 What frequency do you plan on running this weekend? I'll give you a shout. I usually run 3.765 Mc, myself. Oh, where will you be traveling to? I've got a vertical that I'll use if you will be pretty far away from my area. Have a great week!

I hate to read that Henry isn't in the bug-catcher business any longer. He made top quality stuff. Check out any of the pages on "NVIS Mobile" through the search engines and you will find that most government users tilt their whips in order to utilize the NVIS effect. This is the way it...

That would probably work pretty well. Back in my military days, we would pull the rear-mounted whip over the top of our jeep and tie it to the front bumper with a non-conductive cord. That always worked pretty well - much better that running the whip vertically on frequencies under 10 Mc or...

I've tried a lot of antennas for 75 meters mobile, but the best thing I've found for LOCAL (out to a 300-mile radius) is: 1. Two "dummy load on a stick" 75 meter hamsticks 2. 1 Dipole adapter bracket (allows you to hook two hamsticks up horizontally like a diploe and connect the whole thing...

I use 29.050 Mc AM mode every day to talk with some fellow hams in the local area. My wife and I talk on 28.450 Mc USB fairly often as she is a "Tech" and hasn't upgraded, yet. (Sometimes I can beg her into talking to me on the radio when I go to the store or something. :-) Every couple of...

I use my SuperStar 3900 Gold on 10 meters all the time. After an alignment, crystal swap and 2SC2999/Schottky diode mod, the radio receives really well for what it is. The transmit audio sounds very nice using a Heil HC-5 element in the stock mic case. Thanks to the wide SSB and AM filters...

I prefer homemade ladder line with 4 inch ceramic Johnson spreaders. I use about 100 feet of it to feed my 75 meter full wave loop. With this combination, I can tune anything from about 3.5 Mc to 54 Mc using a Johnson Kilowatt balanced-line tuner. According to an old ARRL article on the...

I use a 135 ft diopole fed in the middle with ladder line at my second QTH. (Similar to what W5LZ suggests...) If you can find an old Johnson Matchbox tuner to tune the thing with, your power loss will be very low across the whole HF spectrum. Parts List 12 gauge insulated wire - 135...

Yep, that's the guy! I forgot the "A" part of his call-it's been a while since I talked to him... I wonder about the 375 watt carrier, too. :D Have you ever listened to his show, "Radio Timtron Worldwide" on WBCQ? He really cuts up and plays lots of great music!

I used to talk in the NOS Group on 3.885 MC. They only had one "rule" if you could call it that - NO transmissions under 10 minutes! I always found that this was good practice for the college speech class I was taking at the time! :D There is a guy whose call letters are W1HLR that...

I know what y'all mean about a lot of the "CB shops." I knew a guy who called himself "Radio Doctor," and operated out the back of one of the local truck stops. A couple of years ago, the truck stop kicked him out due to some sort of business disagreement. I heard him on the radio trying to...

I agree, there's not much that will beat the old Uniden chassis stuff. However, for a 14 year old kid mowing lawns for "radio money" in 1982, the Excalibur wasn't such a bad option. Knowing what I know now, though, I would have bought a Cobra 148 or Grant for about the same money and used it...

Hi Dirty Harry, It didn't affect the operation of my Excalibur at all. It's just that most of our small appliances run on 120 Vac, and so that's what most of the plugs in our houses supply. 220 Vac is used mainly for large stuff such as large air conditioners, electric stoves, etc. So...

Linearone, I definitely feel your pain - just about every time I hear a S9...

Yep, as long as I show 90-100 percent modulation on peaks on my monitor 'scope I'm happy. I do run a Heil HC-5 element into a speech processor before feeding it into my Uniden Grant, though. I can run 125 percent asymmetical, but the audio gets nasty sounding at that point. So, I just run it...

I'm not sure about the Kraco radios, but I have had both the domestic and export version of the Colt Excalibur. They were both good radios. Not as good as say a Cobra 2000, but just as good as any of the Midland or Ham International stuff... The Excalibur (domestic version) has 40 channels...

My Uniden PC 78XL has delta tune, and I modified it to slide between the standard CB channels. It will swing down about 11 KC and up about 2 KC from the center detent position. I modified the radio with an external oscillator to work on 29 MHz for Ham AM use, and the delta tune mod really...

Clarence Carter... Is that the same guy who came out with the song "Strokin?" :D Or, is that just his CB handle? I was looking around on youtube the other day, and a guy in Great Brittain had posted a video where he heard Clarence Carter pretty well even though there didn't seem to be any...