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You are not the only one, and you should talk to your primary care doctor, I have been diagnosed with essential tremors, it started several years ago, I found it was getting harder to do fine detail work, soldering is now difficult because of this. Essential Tremor shakiness is often called an...

California Highway Patrol still uses low band currently, 36 something to 45 something MHz, that's going to be a hurdle and I know that there is some military traffic in the low band range. If they were T mobile with a fat wallet they would stand a better chance.... Maybe they can carve out a...

It was great to have that local face behind the counter, some of the guys that worked there we went to school with. I'm going to go drink my root beer and listen to the blues while I reminisce about way back when, back in the day before the Internet 73 Jeff

When RS didn't have it, there was a drive to Sparkys Electronics on Blackstone in Fresno, electronics warehouse. 2sc1306 or 1307 you ask? How many do you need Motorola RF transistors by the handful, crystals, transformers, audio stuff, radio stuff, antenna stuff, general electronics stuff and...

The glue, actually Sonybond, has resulted in as many dead radios as dried out caps, even worse when it starts eating the leads off of components. Nasty stuff, if you see anymore get rid of it. 73 Jeff

Yes, and there was a older thread from concrete that had pictures of the antenna in his shop long before the DM version showed up. I don't contest that the Vector is a interesting design, the are hundreds of pages of info and debate and modeling that show it can be a very effective antenna when...

'm sounds like mine's bigger than your's kind thing, but hey it's only money right? No one thinks of RX. Actually there are a couple on .025 that do, Prime is running a small beam on his little station, and some cat called motor mouth maul seems to get out.... 73 Jeff

The shack back then had almost everything we needed and the guys behind the counter actually knew what you were asking for. Ic's, transistors, capacitors,tubes, diodes ,batteries,lamps, breadboards, tools, solder, wire, cable, radios,antennas,scanners, shortwave receivers, all right in front of...

Ten Roger Right On 73 Jeff

Search for the " Dave made Javelin Antenna" Someone, I think it was Concrete, was working on a big beefy model of the Vector years ago, there might be a picture or two still on the forum, it was many years ago. $1200 is a lotta money for a single vertical antenna, unless you live on top of mount...

He has it posted on his YouTube page, he isn't a full time radio shop it's a second job so to speak. Here is a screenshot 73 Jeff

Did you use steel wool or stainless steel wool? I used to work in food processing and have seen regular steel wool leave contamination behind that later showed crosion on both aluminum and stainless. It's even worse on stainless, if you did use regular steel wool I would suggest you go over it...

It's crazy open, must have made 30/40 mobile contacts so far this morning, calling for WWDX members, none answered but lots of others are in there. 73 Jeff

Birdman in Dayton Ohio is s-9 plus, good QSO.

Bahahahah Someone is playing a recording of Todd KC4TVZ calling CQ on .385 funny stuff right there. 73 Jeff

Channel 35-36-37-38-39-40 and up full of signals. Where's everyone at? 73 Jeff

Wow Contacts in Kentucky Florida Pennsylvania S-7/s-9

North/South Carolina Tenn Florida Several other stations in right now 38 73 Jeff

The band is open for the moment 73 Jeff

Hey @unit_399 New radio from Ranger Looks like a older Uniden case, recognize it? 73 Jeff