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Thanks guys. I'm not sure what type of radio I want to get, but I know I can't spend a ton of money. I pretty much have to sell some CB stuff to buy a radio. I just can't decide what to give up!, lol. The total money I have in CB, I could have had a REALLY NICE ham rig. I'm still keeping my base...

I passed:) I had thought about doing it for a long time, and some friends recently told me I should try, so last night I got on QRZ.com, and did the practice tests. I found out that the next test opportunity would be this morning, so I did it. Didn't miss any, and even tried going for general...

When I got my magnum M-1 done, the tech was talking to me while he was working on something, and said "peak and tune is $35". I told him I did NOT want it peaked, just aligned, variable set so that at 12:00 is 4 watts, and enough audio, so that it's not overmodulated when the mic gain is all the...

I have the same walkie talkie and same toaster....my better half would kill me if I took the toaster apart, though. lol

I use the flexible wilsons (cophase) on my work truck (peterbilt 379), and am very suprised with the performance. I chose them, because of the flexability so that I wouldn't break mounts when bending them over on tree branches. I never could get them tuned very well, but acceptable, and have no...

I replaced my old penetrator with an I-10k, and let a friend borrow my p-500, after his 3rd I-max 2000 broke. After using the penetrator, he said he'll never go back to fiberglass. I think the p-500 was better than the I-10k in the recieve department, but barely noticable. One huge difference...

I've been looking at the sirio performer 5000 lately. A local here got one, and it looked well made, so I was telling a friend about it...well, he got it and said he'll never run anything else. Said it was a huge improvement over his previous wilson 5000 in both TX and RX, and what's really...

LOL, he was quite the ratchet jaw in the 70s from what I heard, and ran big power until uncle charlie came to town.

Nice install, moleculo. That's pretty much what i had pictured in my head, but in my experience with trying to run a mobile antenna as a base, if everything isn't PERFECT, it just doesn't tune. Had LOTS of trial and error with radials, before getting even close. I think the ladder will be the...

Thanks for the replies. This has to be a clean installation, and has to be completed in one day, since I will only have access to it for one day. I wish he would have told me he wanted this done, while he was here visiting for the last 3 weeks. Now I have to get everything together, drive to...

My father in law wants me to install an antenna and radio on his motorhome, which is fiberglass. After thinking about it, I'm kind of leaning towards one of those firestick "no ground" setups with the side body mount. Has anyone tried one of those? I never liked the idea myself, but it seems...

One of our trucks at work (gravel semi) uses one. Gets out and recieves really well. Tunes 1:1 very easily.

I agree. Sometimes all it takes, is to know who they are. I did that a couple times, where one guy would keep them talking, and I would track their signal, find them, get a few blocks away, and then I'd say something like, "I see you...yeah, you, in the dark blue ford pickup... Yeah, the one...

I found a k-40 mount that looks just like these, but doesn't have a "drilled bolt". Intead, it is set up like a normal connector.

So, is it going to cause problems if I run positive from radio to battery, negative from radio to firewall, and positive from amp to battery, negative from amp to body behind the seat? to the original poster, we have a 2006 chevy HHR, with galaxy 959, plugged into the power port (cig lighter)...

I've got one of those silver streak 150s right here, that I fixed for a local girl (needed a new so-239). It seems like I can set up the radio to run it on either low or high. If I set the dk to run the box on low, then I get 120 watt dk on high. If I set the dk low enough, to run on high, then...

Every one I've seen and tested is 24 volts and drops to 17 under load, so I'd say you're doing good.

15 has been my home channel 15+ years. I've probably talked to you in skipland. 815 around chicago

You talking to me?,,, lol. My I-10k is already up. forum.worldwidedx.com/viewtopic.php?t=19352 You even posted in my thread :shock: . I could use some tuning tips... although I won't lie....I did'nt spend much time tuning it in the first place.

Here's a picture of the hinge I made. I used 400 ft of rope, up over the house to a capstan winch, attached to the reciever hitch of a heavily loaded 1 ton truck. I don't go up and down with the tower. It was mainly to get it in the air, and for any repairs that may be needed in the future...