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Problem solved. I just cut the whip. I just got home from installing it on a friends house and he's talking all over with it now on skip. He likes it so far.

I dont care if they are as you say "crappy" as i have run all kinds of antennas and if you guys dont believe me then that's just fine with me because my friends are the only ones that matter anyways and none of you are my friends... Besides if you want to run a better antenna just put up a...

I really don't care what some snooty ham has to say i go by real world exp and i'm saying the A99 IS NOT THAT BAD!!!!!! I know lots of guys that run them and they work just fine. Sorry but i don't go by fancy formulas and crap i go by real exp. Liker i said i own all kinds of other antennas and...

Im going by what most people run. A lot of them on the air. they are a simple antenna to put up and doesn't require as much maintenance.. Yes i have run better and i own better but for what it is its not that bad....

LO, i am over it. Don't like what i say dont read it...

Didnt Cobra discontinue this radio?

I lived with a lady in an HOA and i painted an A99 cammo and put it in her pine tree and nobody every saw it... That was my way of sticking my middle finger up at the HOA. LMAO!

No it's not. if it's junk then why do so many people use them including myself?????? I have owned all kinds of antennas from huge metal monster beams to simple stick antennas so i have all kinds of exp...

No i just think its kinda bad that one cannot come on here and ask a simple questions and not get the third degree. It's no wonder the radio hobby is dying and new people run away it's due to the older guys treating the new/newer guys like crap. I see it all over the internet like on the CB...

Yup they were a bunch of a*******!

I love how you all just gang up on someone... Just like CB tricks they all ganged up on me there too.

No inflated ego here....

at least 36' apart....

Whatever you do dont turn it on until you clean it up and find someone with a variac that can power it up slowly so you see find issues with lowered voltages..

The 23 Ch sears i had were dogs...

Best thing to to do in regards to anything old thats tube is to use a variac to powder it up SLOWLY!!!! I have one and i use it all the time for powering up stuff that hasn't been turned on in years.... That way you can see issues that pop up at low voltages.

Yeah me too. I live in a very small town that don't have any antenna codes and i live in an older home that well, doesn't look like a showplace. LOL

Thats always the answer to everything. Not all CBers want to be hams...

Dude thats why i live in a dumpy town and in an old house so i can put up what i want..