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I hear both the air horn and the jingle when the band's up - strongest signal is off my SW-facing sloper.

The FCC is trying the attrition gambit: Baxter cannot legally operate without a valid license so they'll tie up his application for renewal for a protracted amount of time (pending payment of fines levied, of course) and hope he'll voluntary turn his license in, as was the case with WB2OTK...

"Set aside for administrative review" is the last I heard regarding the matter, and that particular sword cuts both ways: His license has never been officially canceled.

There are fewer and fewer CB users in my area these days. We used to have a lot of fun on 11M, and some of us still use it for bike-to-bike communications when on a run. Ch19 is fairly active during the day, as there are many nearby interstates...but just one or two 'local' channels that see...

Try being married to a PGH native/Steelers fan: I've heard ALL the Browns jokes!

I've recently been hearing a fair number of Spanish speaking stations (whom I presume to be in Mexico or Latin America) clustered around 24.635, 24.776 and 25.005. Comms are in SSB, and given the number of roger beeps associated with the transmissions I doubt they're government or commercial in...

Thread bump. Those of us who use and/or repair older, less-common gear (think Cubic, Drake, etc) find eBay a godsend when it comes to sourcing parts, rigs and accessories. I got lucky in the search for certain Cubic stuff twice at Dayton...and many more times than that on eBay. Time is...

I see a lot of references to packet radio in that list. Have any packet stations been heard recently on or around the 11M band?

I am Dyslexic of Borg...your ass will be laminated...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's picked up on that...

Anyone happen to catch the Thanksgiving weekend installment of such? Whole lotta WTF on that there channel...

Looking for a clean, working setup. Might consider a 'for repair' unit if it's all there. PM or e-mail me with info. Thanks!

You can probably thank the 3885 crew (or their sycophants) for that. Used to hang out on 3892 years ago with a bunch from OH, PA, NY and VA. Another crowd - primarily in TN and KY - operated on 91 in the evenings. As soon as the band opened to them, myself and whomever else wanted to join...

I ran a '2600 and a '2510 for years as part of my packet BBS/gateway setup. Those radios saw a bunch of activity when propagation on 10 was up and they never faltered.

Sorry for the long delay in responses. For dealing with the sort of EMI 'hash' you're experiencing, I would have a look at MFJ's 1025/1026, Timewave's ANC4 or DX Engineering's antenna phasing units. These allow you to use a sense antenna for phase-cancellation purposes and will make short work...

I generally don't have a problem with unlicensed folks as long as they keep themselves and all traces of their signals OUT of the ham bands...but....this guy really takes the friggin' cake: http://www.eham.net/forums/mailto/12?id=10692 How many points of "fail" can we find in that proposal?

Was my first receiver as well. Copying Morse on that thing was a true PITA, as you had to let it stabilize long enough to stay tuned to a station you wanted to decode and you still needed to keep a steady hand on the bandspread knob. SSB/CW selectivity? Riiiight...but I built a multi-section...

Excellent. Welcome to the ranks!

Not familiar with either of those two, but Yaesu, Palomar and Ameco offered both passive and active preselectors at one time. If MFJ's designs are functionally similar to those, you can expect about 10-15dB of out-of-band rejection on both sides of "tuning center". Is the undesirable signal...

Probably a Good Thing, as those who know how to fix them can pick 'em up cheap. ;)