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There is a big difference between dozens of idiots yelling for "SKIPLAND" and normal operating. Yes, we cannot control the atmosphere and skip conditions but we also cannot seek it out and exploit it on CB. Can't exploit is in any other communications service aside from amatuer radio. My...

I have the older model 817 that I got first for portable ops. It's a nice little radio but the ND is much better with digital signal processing. If you want to do QRP, it's fine. I've used the 817 and 897 portable QRP but the 897 can work 20 watts on batteries while the 817 can do only 5 watts...

You would do very well if you were to obtain a multi-band, multi-mode radio to use in your shack. All big manufacturers have these sorts of radios and some of them are mobile, some are portable. All will work in a fixed station with a high current power supply. I'm familiar with Yaesu radios and...

I've seen many bowed=in steel frames after heavy fire. It can fail from the heat of a fire. It may not melt, but it sure can get bent!

Yeah, engineers have said the WTC collapses were due to extreme heat causing the steel trusses to fail and that was due to missing coatings of the trusses that would have prevnted a heat failure. Plus the steel was not I-beam type, but looked more lake tubular ham radio towers turned on the...

The WTC survived the crash. It collapsed due to the fires in the towers that was hot enough to melt the types of trusses used and the trusses then collapsed on each floor due to overstressed mechanical limitations of the trusses as each floor caught the weight.

A whole bunch of novices and techs in my area went to get 220 radios. A small local ham store was running sales on 220 HTs and everyone had one.. There are four repeaters up. We made heavy use of em til the novices upgraded to tech and everyone went to 2 meters. Dunno if its still being used or...

I won't get into which service is "better" or more "legal." Completely different cultures with completely different technologies and goals. They're not alike. CB is hobby for many, many people but still has personal uses as between family members and various groups. My position here is that...

Dunno, but obviosly the mod means that the warranty is void. If you can find out which parts can be used to unmodify the radio try to deal with it. If not, you can send it to CA and ask them to fix it, but it is gonna cost some $$ to do it. As if another 50 watts is gonna matter.......

PopComm was the first mag I ever saw once I became interested in SWL and that introduced me to ham radio. I had my parents' console model shortwave radio of the sort families would gather around in the WWII era. I occationally still buy copies. Depends on what subjects the mag is featuring.

I have been trying to download the Comm Act of 34 to read it and I cannot seem to do so. But Congress passed the law and told the FCC to regulate wireless and wireline communications and when an agency is created to "requlate" something it does so by making rules and regulations and enforces...

And you have the authorization to do so, correct?

Congress passes enabling legislation that allows regulatory agencies the power to make rules and requlations to carry out the jobs they are given by the law which Congress passes. The FCC's jurisdiction is contained in the Communications Act of 1934 as amanded. Those are the things that the...

I would not waste time waiting for a drop for the code test. You have 365 days from the date of your certificate to pass the code test. After that time you have to retest. I have no idea if the FCC is going to do anything about the code test in a year's time and if they change the...

<major snip: You misunderstood me, or perhaps I was not clear in my mssg. I STRUGGLED to learn the theory. It took me a long and difficult time before I was able to understand electronic theory and its math basis. I'm not stupid, I have a college degree and worked in a professional setting...

I don't insult posters' handles here. If you have a gripe with me, bring it out like an ADULT; don't play foolish games. If you don't agree with what I write, bring it out on that level and we can get right to it. I'm questioning this business decision to sell amateur radios as a commercial...

Wrong! The FCC is decidedly NOT opening up the ten meter band or upgrading anyone or doing anything with tests, aside from PROPOSING that it may simply do away with the morse tests. And the only reason for doing away with the code test is that internaltional law, as overseen by the ITU, has...

So, if every single person on the FCC's database of current licenses buys an amateur radio from the commercial electronis stores were to buy one, about 600,000 radios would be sold. That's poor performance according to the smart boys who make up the commercial theories. Hardly a drop in the...

Uhh.... Unless that radio is certificated for use by the FCC, it cannot be sold in the USA. I don't know what the "proof" being documented is, but unless the FCC has approved it for use, it remains illegal to be sold. It's the FCC's ruling that it's illegal, and the FCC's ruling has to have...

The exam can't get much more simple than it is now for Tech. Most of it IS common sense once you learn some basic theory and rules and regs. A smaller number of questions is ridiculous. How much more easy is it going to get when the questions and answers are freely available?? I'm no elitist...