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The real idiot happens to be whomever buys the thing.

This individual (or a tape thereof) has made it onto 20M. I hear that bit at least once a week on either 14.275ish or 14.313. Definitely from the desert SW, as I don't hear the station unless an opening to that area is in progress.

If anyone is itching to do some PSK on 10, I just got a Signalink USB connected into the shack. 28.120 is in one of the 940's memories along with the other popular watering holes. For that matter let's do some RTTY.

I did my left hand middle finger earlier in the year with an angle grinder while cutting a bunch of steel bars inset into our basement walls. Wife said she heard me cussing but didn't hear a tool drop beforehand - she figured she'd better get downstairs. Didn't bleed much at all; grinding...

Don't know how much RAM/CPU you have on your system but you may wish to look into installing VMWare Player then creating an XP virtual machine. Give it about 1GB of RAM to work with and install all of your Windows-based software within. I've had to do this with several platforms I use...

That particular saying has even made it onto the amateur bands - either in recorded or live form. Y'all are not alone.

Have you ever tried running any of the Windows-based SSTV programs in Linux's WINE utility?

I hear both the air horn and the jingle when the band's up - strongest signal is off my SW-facing sloper.

The FCC is trying the attrition gambit: Baxter cannot legally operate without a valid license so they'll tie up his application for renewal for a protracted amount of time (pending payment of fines levied, of course) and hope he'll voluntary turn his license in, as was the case with WB2OTK...

"Set aside for administrative review" is the last I heard regarding the matter, and that particular sword cuts both ways: His license has never been officially canceled.

There are fewer and fewer CB users in my area these days. We used to have a lot of fun on 11M, and some of us still use it for bike-to-bike communications when on a run. Ch19 is fairly active during the day, as there are many nearby interstates...but just one or two 'local' channels that see...

Try being married to a PGH native/Steelers fan: I've heard ALL the Browns jokes!

I've recently been hearing a fair number of Spanish speaking stations (whom I presume to be in Mexico or Latin America) clustered around 24.635, 24.776 and 25.005. Comms are in SSB, and given the number of roger beeps associated with the transmissions I doubt they're government or commercial in...

Thread bump. Those of us who use and/or repair older, less-common gear (think Cubic, Drake, etc) find eBay a godsend when it comes to sourcing parts, rigs and accessories. I got lucky in the search for certain Cubic stuff twice at Dayton...and many more times than that on eBay. Time is...

I see a lot of references to packet radio in that list. Have any packet stations been heard recently on or around the 11M band?

I am Dyslexic of Borg...your ass will be laminated...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's picked up on that...

Anyone happen to catch the Thanksgiving weekend installment of such? Whole lotta WTF on that there channel...

Looking for a clean, working setup. Might consider a 'for repair' unit if it's all there. PM or e-mail me with info. Thanks!

You can probably thank the 3885 crew (or their sycophants) for that. Used to hang out on 3892 years ago with a bunch from OH, PA, NY and VA. Another crowd - primarily in TN and KY - operated on 91 in the evenings. As soon as the band opened to them, myself and whomever else wanted to join...