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LOL its all good, I just lament the normal bureaucracy and its, how shall I say penchant for sloth and inefficiency. Especially since I am a person who takes great pride in my own work ethic and efficiency. but trying to rush anything bureaucratic is basicly beating a dead horse because it...

day 5, I really will lose it...... its like waiting for Christmas to come. Oh yea I'm waiting for that too. :headbang

90 days! god, I would lose my mind. hopefully it will only be a week or two.

Yes, thank you very much! :D

just off hand here can some one throw up a link to the site I have to look on to find my callsign once it arrives? Please!

already doing that.... but most of the local cb'ers are friends of mine so I can't really be uber snobby about it.

The wait is killing me... seriously I could be dead before my callsign makes it to the database....:lol: its been 24 hours and it feels like a week.

I intend to keep going onward and upward both in licensing and antenna, so the double meaning was intended. :thumbup1: I actually tried the general test too but I hadn't studied for it so I didn't come close to passing, about 50% without reading anything about the general license requirements...

It's exciting for me! I pretty much aced the test only missed 2 questions out of the 35 on it. so just need to chill for a week or two until my name hits the data base then I get to play HAM.

I have an RCI-2950DX that does 10-11-12 meters that's three slots in one radio. since you have your tech you have 10 meter phone so you can use it there and if you graduate to general class you'll already have your 12 meter radio. I so far like this radio, I havent had an oppourtunity to use it...

I was just going to say "WHY NOT!?!?!?!" but booty's answer works too.

that's cool as hell. that guy spent some serious time building that thing.

any how here is where I am at, for my inverted v the calculator says 14.83 feet per leg. so I cut wire to 15 feet 1 inch then stripped 2 inches on the outer of a piece of coax and one inch on the inner core. and stripped one inch on both wires or legs rather. soldered them together heat...

what type/brand of antenna tuner do you guys recommend for this dipole to be?

its all a learning process beetle, just learning that I should start with a Di-pole instead of a long wire is learning. I don't have to wait until its up and running to learn something. That seems to me to be a very narrow view of the definition of learning. granted I'll learn more after...

I really like that antenna and mast set up.

my friends make fun of about half my hobbies untill I get them hooked on them and then I make fun of them for falling into my hobbies. had a friend razzed me about golf, got him to play one round now he's a golf nut....... I rag on him endlessly. same guy used to make fun of my deep affection...

LOL thanks, its all relative I guess. I will pick one of the longer measuments and go from there. and it will be an inverted v formation which lengthens it out some more. no worries. this is half the fun of starting up in a new hobby, asking all those questions that makes oneself feel ignorant...

if I divide 468 by 28.4 I get 16.71 is that feet? if so convert to inches at 200.57 using a random wave length calculator on line I resolved that 1 full wavelength at 28.400 Mhz is 421.7 inches so half that would be a half wave length correct? for a total of 210.3 inches for a half length...

so, for a 1/2 wave length dipole I need 196 inches of wire split in the middle, sperated by an insulator each half of the wire connected seperately to the inner and outer conductors of a piece of coax. prefferably a full wavelength off the ground which I think I can get if I run an inverted v...