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And even less likely it will be available up here in Canada.

That Midland is a sharp looking radio. REALLY happy they got rid of that stupid looking "eyeglasses" front panel that the Jopix and Chierda versions have. I'm thinking about buying another radio......I'm finding myself frustrated by the wonky encoders on both of my Anytone radios and have...

The exclusive use of LSB seems to be limited to the USA, Canada, and Australia & New Zealand. Everywhere else in the world USB is far more common, and in most of Central and South America both USB and LSB are used......if you tune to a frequency like 27.415 or 445 you'll get English on LSB from...

Dumb question, but have you tried another mic? Always good to rule out the simple things first.....

You would be correct. AM has been DOA up here where I am in British Columbia since the early 2000's. The govt gave the truckers here four common VHF channels and they all moved there within five years. Our local REACT chapter (I was a 9 monitor) shut down around the same time. Everybody else...

Great thread all! I love this kind of esoteric CB radio history. I knew Australia had a somewhat different history than up here with the 18 channel band and all that. Great to have the timeline be clearer. I wonder when they came up with the current UHF CB band down in Australia...

Conditions have been good but not great out here on the west coast of Canada. Didn't get a lot of radio time in this week.....hope to get on a bit more this weekend if I can squeeze it in.

There has been a fairly active SSTV group on 27.700 for the last few skip cycles. Mostly French and Italian ops, but also in several other European nations, as well as some in the U.S. and Latin America. Callsigns follow the same protocol as on the triple nickel, with the first number...

Yep. This train has completely left the tracks and is hurtling over a cliff and into a deep canyon.......... :LOL:

If everything is done right with the antenna installation there shouldn't be any change to SWR, especially with such a small extension. As a general rule in a base station setup, if changing the length of any coax changes the SWR significantly, then there are other problems with the antenna or...

That's a nice looking amp....never seen one of those before which makes me think it's not super common. You may have to buy a dead one for a parts donor. It's also possible that the switch was used in other gear as well. Is there a part number on the switch that you can try and...

FM is amazing that way! I talked to a guy on 26805 a year or so ago who was running 2 watts FM into a 3 foot firestik taped to a metal fence post in his yard. We had a nice long QSO with almost 100% copy. He did fade out briefly a couple times.... He was in Arkansas and I am on the west...

You guys put way too much significance on the DX forecast! I've made some very very good contacts in the last 4-5 days in spite of the bad DX forecast. I've made it to 90 countries now and hoping to get to 100 before this cycle is done. What I've noticed is that the skip has gone very "long"...

There are indeed. Even more, there are LOTS of people running Anytone, CRT, Radioddity and other radios made by Qixiang. Great audio and bang on frequency right out of the box. I also think that a lot of the folks who were running the crap class C gear were "old school" CBers who have passed...

Nailed another new country! 131AT/0 from Guyana on the northeast coast of South America. 27.610 USB. 5/9 copy. Huge signals from all over South America this afternoon........

Hit and miss out here on the west coast. Conditions have been excellent in the late afternoon/early evening for a couple hours, but kinda ho-hum the rest of the day. Still making lots of contacts though, mostly on 36 LSB and 26805 FM.

Finally made contact with Vietnam! 242TW001 on 27.580USB. Just barely made the trip though......bad QRM on both sides. I figured I had a good chance after DX Man worked the same guy a few nights back. 150 watts and a homemade horizontal delta loop. Heard everything from Alaska to Australia...

Thanks for the correction Nomad!

Totally agree. Back over 25 years ago I had one and while it had a couple of quirks it was overall a great radio. After a time I decided to sell it and upgrade to a 2970. Oooof...... That 2970 was the biggest turd ever made. Within a couple months of me owning it the problems started and...