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I rarely have any problems with starting a conversation and keeping it going. But then, I'm usually going 30 WPM or so on CW. If you only operate voice modes, you're missing a lot of fun, DX, and so forth.

I thought seriously about at least saying "hello" to the ZS station. That was the first time I'd ever heard ANY station in Africa, and Africa turned out to be the very last continent I needed for WAC! Glad I waited to get one on CW!

How'd that go?

I didn't have a CB license, then or now. I was operating 11Q0082 as directed by my electronics teacher who was an "ex officio" licensee and who didn't have a personal CB license either.

Never actually owned one of these -- Hallicrafters CB-1. You can find specs and a picture of this on RigPix...It was around 1960. Las Vegas High School had received a federal grant to start up an electronics program which involved us high school students during the day and started "SNTI"...

Assuming the antenna is a textbook half-wave, center-fed dipole, the feedpoint is the highest current point; maximum RF at that point, tapering off pretty equally to the ends. With a normal "V" configuration, with the center point at the bottom, a lot of the RF that would normally radiate to...

Install it however you want. Take careful measurements, take pictures and take notes (legible ones, not like the ones I generally take). Use these data as your baseline. Then make adjustments (ONE at a time). Take careful measurements, pictures, etc as before.) Remember, when Guglielmo...

Too true. "Spot on" would be if the lab's standard freq meter or counter bears a valid current frequency sticker. And calibration isn't forever. Every 3 to 6 months is not unheard of.

And it's now back in whack?

What kind of SWR meter are you using? If it's the kind that you have to switch to adjust it to full scale (sometimes with a switch marked "CAL" or "FULL SCALE") and then switch it to "SWR", then the meter is likely the problem. It's responding to the change in forward power with a change in...

Look at Recon's post just two before the one of mine, He ends it by referring to a ratio of 2 to 3 (2:3). The ":1" to specify a Standing Wave RATIO should be a given, but when the post says "2 to 3", it's not a given that the poster meant ":1".

A "ratio" generally shows how much greater than or less than one is the variable quantity. "2" or "3" by itself is not a ratio; an "SWR" of "2" is meaningless. Compare the "2" or the "3" to one, like 2:1 or 3:1.

Green curry (take-out) from one of the best local Thai places. About a pound of rice, and a quart container of the curry. Reminds me of one of the little places I tried during a week's layover in Bangkok, waiting for our flight back to the States. Beer was Singha; unfortunately, the export...

78 here. A few of the Royal Australian Navy's newer ships were built over here and I was working on their various electrical and navigational installations. And yes, to forestall the inevitable question, I have eaten Vegemite. Not nearly as bad as I was led to believe... I worked on HMAS...

And try not to finish it with e s e e e.

Maybe in some Extraterrestrial type of code. Dah di di dah dit is "/"

Best band for mobile....??? Would have to be 15 meters, any mode. From the California/Oregon border running up and or down I-5 or other N/S roads I can regularly get Pacific Islands on SSB. What they seem to be waiting for is for me to put the mike down and grab the key. 45 mph and send/rec...

Navy shipboard HF gear used "multicouplers" to enable as many as four 1KW transmitters to use one antenna simultaneously on four different HF frequencies and modes. Frequencies had to be plus or minus x % apart and a whole bunch of other "...Oh, by the way..." warnings. They did work, however...

But you seldom hear a customer complain....

1:11 and 1:28 are not usable ratios (the R in SWR stands for RATIO), and a ratio is properly stated as a variable number to the number 1. There is only one colon in a ratio, and the colon is always followed by a 1. A ratio of two to one would be properly written as 2:1. It might be possible...