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Crack: It's a hell of a drug.

That bit is well known, but nothing regarding the enforcement action appears in the licensee's Admin Trans Log. Interesting, ain't it? Never. Come on over and join us. We don't bite. ;)

AFAIK, that license is still active under its current holder. The previous holder canceled it in 2003, however.

I used a quarter-wave whip and an HR-2510 as my 10M mobile setup for a number of years. Worked a lot of DX with the arrangement, and with just 25w to it the antenna did most of the heavy lifting.

This data used to be available in Popular Electronics magazine back in the late 70's and very early 80's. Cobra 2000/148, Uniden Grant/Madison...anything built on that particular double-conversion platform got very good reviews, especially where adjacent-channel rejection was concerned. If...

What's it in need of, and what kind of troubleshooting skills/bench equipment do you possess? Compared to some of the stuff I've had across my bench, those rigs aren't that difficult to work on - and FoxTango has the service manual online.

Any of the SL-series chips were made by Plessey Semiconductor (UK). FWIW, here's an eBay link to the part: Plessey SL1611C IF Amp Chips, 1 ea. NOS | eBay

I keep a receiver parked on the frequency. It's rare that I DON'T hear any activity.

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!