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Yep u R right, it was a HTX 10... All I will add is that pressing buttons to change the step on a 10 meter mobile is a PITA. I think that was part of Chucks problem. He was too lazy to fine tune it - Zero Beat it to you and so as long as he heard something in the speaker, he was happy. I heard...

I have a friend that bought a RadioShack HTX 100 from a pawn shop in Colorado. Everything he buys is junk and he is always misrepresenting everything he owns as being something else - that is a more expensive model - just to make it appear that he has something. Uniden produced that model - HR...

Most people that posts what you posted, did it to brag - what a good match they got. Add to that - this is the internet and I cannot see you face, nor do I know if you are kidding or are serious. I think you take yourself too seriously and that you boast just for the sake of boasting. On...

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Get it better - HOW? If you were playing with a CB radio, where the whole shooting match took place on less than 1/2 of 1 MHz, then you would be looking for a low SWR somewhere in the middle of the band. Somewhere around channel 19. When you only have a couple of legal watts to play with...

I never put much faith in what the Navy claimed, but then again, if you are a ship, out in the middle of the ocean, there is nothing to absorb the RF or block the RF at night. Skywave vs Groundwave. If you are thousands of feet up in the air, it doesn't take much of an antenna to talk /...

My brother recently returned from Saudi Arabia. There was no commercial AM / FM radio stations of interest there, but he was able to buy locally a SONY Boombox style receiver that included Short Wave Frequencies. The downfall was that they did not use 120 vac over there, and that he had to...

I'm not really sure what you are asking here. DX means out of country - the stations you are able to receive doesn't sound to me as being out of country. The premium radio you are talking about would be laughable at best to anyone that owns even a less expensive amateur radio - Icom, Yaesu...

The last hamfest I attended, there were no computers anymore. Only one or two guys selling CB radios, most were giving away old cb radio antenna parts - free. One or two groups that were selling off the estate - minus what they kept for themselves - of a SK ham that belonged to their club...

What I have to explain to most non hams and most licensed hams that only has a walkie talkie and a Technician Class License is that 6 meters is both local and more then local when the band opens up. But as long as everyone is stuck on a FM repeater, you will not hear anyone on 6 meters unless...

My only comment would be that it is not the worlds largest hamfest, just the largest hamfest in The United States. The Hamfest was a success from the standpoint that a lot of good amateur radio equipment manufacturers were located within a 150 mile range of the hamfest during it's initial...

Forget about G5RVs and non resonant antennas, put up a simple dipole antenna for 6 meters, no tuner necessary. Call your butt off, and have a ball. No one I know of will say anything negative, unless you are camped out on the calling frequency. 50.180 Mhz USB is the best place to get your...

Try 6 meters, the band is open, just say CQ CQ CQ CQ 6 meters, Your call phonetically, Your call phonetically CQ 6 meters, and you will have more people come back to you then a possum has ticks.

When I got there this year, the outlet cover on the generator was missing. My guess is that someone broke it when they discovered that the genius that wired the outlets onto the generator wired them wrong, or it caught fire at some point and melted the plate. My CFL bulb did not blow this year...

C.K. - the whole set up is dyslexic. Instead of using a 240 VAC polarized plug into the carnival box and the distributing it all out. They used two separate 120 VAC plugs into the box, then out to the individual radios. The 120 outlets on the generator is only rated for about 20 amps, while the...

Thanks, Yes they had several ground rods driven into the ground, and a separate ground rod driven into the ground, near the job trailer I was to operate from. I have no way to ground the computer, and or the power supply. It didn't make much sense to ground the transceiver - since I was only...

If you are operating, it has nothing to do with being stupid when someone tunes up for 15 minutes, either over your QSO or a net you participate in. It just happens. I think a lot of it has to do with the person with the tuner being desperate, trying to eek out every possible watt / trying to...

If you are trying to make HAMS out of S&R people. it isn't going to happen. As you said, they only want to operate when it benefits them. If you don't operate, you can't learn how to operate or operate your equipment properly. It is hard to deploy someone when they can't do anything! Its...

I think yes, it was not a true 60 hz / 120 volts AC. While trying to plug in the interface cable between the computer and the transceiver - TS 590 - has its own sound card, an arc snapped between the cable - coming from the transceiver to the computer. I never seen anything like it before in my...

What is cheaper, a good antenna that works all the bands without an antenna tuner? Or a crappy antenna and a antenna tuner? How much does this Good Antenna Tuner cost? Add the two together and how much does it cost in the long run? My purgatory is having to listen to some Looney Tuner, tune...