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So I bought an Opek VUG-270 through the glass antenna for my wife's new Subaru XV Crosstrek. Yes, yes, I know, how can any self respecting ham put such a blasphemous piece of equipment on his vehicle. The wife says no holes in her new ride so that's what we are stuck with. Anyhow, the best...

A question for anyone more qualified than I. I have a CR8900 quad band antenna mounted on my pickup truck which is connected to a Yaesu FT-8900 in the cab. A couple weeks ago I noticed that one of the repeaters which usually comes in at full quieting had a lot of noise on it and barely...

Hello all. I use my VX8R all the time, especially at work. I never bought a cover for it and now some of my buttons are becoming unreadable. Is anyone aware of a black paint or rubber coating of some sort which I could applied over the white worn through areas before buying a cover?

So Motorola offers the really cool DTR series radios with true VSELP digital modulation and FHSS but the units are pretty pricey. TriSquare offers their line of fairly cheap FHSS 900MHz radios but they are not digital or very robust. So I was thinking that the Sprint/Nextel phones with the...

Considering the desirable low radiation angle and resulting high gain from a Slim Jim type antenna, one would think that someone has mounted one in a mobile application. I've searched the net but can't find anything about mobile Slim Jims. In my mind at least, it would seem to be a fairly...

Why don't we get the 4 meter band in North America?

What gives? How is this allowed by the FCC?

I'm sure that I'm just missing something in the menu settings, but sometimes my VX8R will change volume settings apparently by itself between one day and the next. I use it at work to scan local EMS and Law Enforcment channels. While scanning the various banks which I have set up, it sometimes...

For the past week or so, I have suddenly started getting some crazy loud static on 29.600MHZ, which is the 10meter FM calling frequency. It is so loud that I can't squelch it even with the knob turned all the way up. If I tune 5Kc to either side, I get an easily squelchable noise floor. The...

This is an interesting move by the FCC. FCC Tells Wireless Mics to Get off 700MHz Spectrum Band - PC World

I am awaiting the arrival of the Opek HVU200 quad band mobile antenna I ordered last week and am trying to get everything else in place for the install. I have decided on a mag mount for now due to the fact that I will eventually move the FT-8900 from my Jeep to my truck. So my question is this...

Last night I ordered an Opek HVU 10,6,2,440 antenna to use with my soon to be acquired Yaesu FT8900. I would also like to put a CB in the vehicle just for laughs. Has anyone ever added a clip on stinger of some sort (maybe an alligator clip) to a 10 meter antenna for such a purpose? How badly do...

I guess I'll have to make my first post sometime or another, so.... It looks like there will be the possibility for some good VHF Dxing early Tuesday morning. Leonid meteor shower to peak Tuesday - CNN.com If I get a slow moment at work, I'll try monitoring on 6 meters with my HT. You...