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Try a Beam Antenna Hay I use a pair of home made 7elm beams at 50ft. You can work DX on 151 also I live in West Virginia. We have done contacts from mtn. to mtn. at 150mi plus.

Well ? From what I see they need to work on south of the border! I hear them all over 10 meters outlaw 10 meter rigs. Yes we have them state side too but most of the problem is South of the border! The other day I saw 3 guys on 28.495mhz. Most state side cbers don't do this.

Power! I run 50 to 60w on that band and use two home made 7 Element Yagis up about 50ft never had any problems here!

FRS Radios? If you stay with in FRS/GMRS or MURS channels. And don't get stupid with power levels no ones going to come get you! Use a Ham Radio VHF/UHF opened up to cover them freq. cushcraft antennas has a line of antennas ringos that work for you.

6 meters Hello I have a old AR10 here and I found that its real easy to mod over to 6m all you do is remove top 2 tubes and change the tap to other side. If you download the AR6 and AR10 manuals it is very clear what you need to do.

painting antennas I had painted a Hustler Antenna with brake caliper paint. no remarks on can about metal in it that messed it up real bad SWR of 2 to 1 . So I striped it found a new paint (red) flat and clear coat also redid paint job SWR is just find now. O if your redoing a old antenna...

Hustler Mobile Hello all I use the big one for 10 meters but I don't use the Hustler bottom I got my lower mast from DXEngineering. My mounts from Breedlove mounts By the way it tuned 11 thu. 10 meters I can run 500 watts ok on it. 73s Al

Sigma 4 I Saw some replys here talking about the ground cage on the Sigma 4. This antenna is called acoaxial sleeve antenna The sleeve opens up at top to for a wide banding the antenna. I wish the copy cats were made as good as the old Sigma 4...

Niose Toys! O I Hope Not! Please keep that junk off MURS and FRS/GMRS!

Wallmart! Yes they use 154.600 almost in any state. You have not done anything bad as long as you do not jam there coms. I always say hello to wallmarts when going near them but try not to upset them! The store at martinsburg wv has a bad manager who will get upset when you come on that...

YES Hello and YES I have one too I have it programed with both MURS & FRS/GMRS bands but the stock antenna is not real good. I put a Diamond ht antenna on my ht also if you want max range on UHF put a pig tail on your radio. All you need is a tem.lug that fits antenna and 6" of wire that...

FRS/GMRS antenna Hello I use a moded ham radio with home made beams on both MURS and FRS/GMRS range I get is 40 60 mi MURS and 10 20 mi FRS/GMRS but I also live in the mtn. of WV. MURS beam is 7 elm. and 14 on UHF.

Antennas Hay good work looks nice to. But what kind of frequency range do you have with your antenna. I use both 10 meters and some free band on a I-max 2000. Al N3IZR:thumbup: