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I check 40USB every day on my lunch break around noon central just in case any of y'all are out there. Few people hear this little radio but I never get tired of trying.

Decided to put my homemade Moxon up on the painter's pole today but before I did I turned the McKinley on in the Jeep and within seconds heard 030 Ireland calling on 38LSB here in St Louis. Didn't hear anyone comeback so I rolled the dice and boom, good but brief contact, got keyed over pretty...

Made good contacts in North Carolina and New York last night, first trip to those states. Also got excellent short skip QSO to Champaign Illinois this morning from Lonedell, Missouri at our new property! Clear as a landline connection and both of us barefoot CB. Pretty cool.

I was working on the Jeep and monitoring 38LSB yesterday afternoon when the band opened up for about 2 minutes. I heard an operator in Pennsylvania (which I never hear in east central Missouri) all happy making contacts and poof, it dropped right back out. At least the locals kept the police...

Nothing but static on my mobile today just west of St Louis. NOAA forecast looks like Tuesday afternoon might take a turn for the better. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/wam-ipe

I didn't think to take any pics of the corrosion but it was a mess. SWR didn't get over 2.2:1 but I knew something was up because it was never above 1.4:1 on either end before. It has been through some torrential downpours for sure. Yep a dab of dielectric grease and a little silicone will go a...

SWR started acting sketchy the last few days. I disassembled the antenna and found the area inside the item circled to be full of corrosion. Only that area. Not sure if moisture got it from the top where the whip enters and ran down or if it got in lower and condensed up in that area. It was a...

We were both barely above the noise floor so we kept the contact fairly short and I didn't get a chance to ask him but we completed the QSO which was cool.

Made one contact today, 23 British Columbia, 16LSB!

Conditions have been pretty spotty here the last several days but I did manage to make a solid contact on 39lsb a few days ago. She's a talker! I really like how compact it is.

Neighbor rang the door bell, said he was thinning out his collection, and handed this to me. He said it's a spare and works fine. Thanks neighbor!

That was me. Conditions are strange here but I heard you calling. I'm trying to make a sideband contact on this TRC-465 I bought a couple of days ago for 30 bucks!

Snatched this off marketplace for $30 last night. All the knobs were a little loose so I pulled them, tightened the pot nuts underneath, and cleaned it up a bit. It's a talker on AM at least. I had a peak inside and it appears original. Still has the DIN mic plug too, yuk. Hopefully conditions...

Haha right on! By the way that barefoot station of yours is always sounding good up here just west of St Louis. It certainly inspires me to get something way up in the air.

Yeah it's hit and miss since I'm working with 12 watts (if I'm lucky). First antenna was a Sirio 5000 and second was an MFJ 12 meter telescopic that I only extend to 103". They both work great but all of the near by high ground is surrounded by trees and once again it was too windy for my wire...

Hey brother, thanks for getting back to me, that was my only WDX contact this weekend. Heard several other members and 16LSB was alive! I did a three day camping trip on the middle fork of the Black River in Black, Missouri. I was on a gravel bar surrounded by hills and didn't figure I'd be...

Sort of related, KDHX is an independent radio station out of St Louis, MO. They play just about every genre of music. Each time slot lasts one to three hours. You might here old country, native american traditional, metal, classis rock, soul, funk, blues, jazz... just about anything. Their...

From my driveway this morning lol. First trip across the Atlantic. Barefoot McKinley USA!

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