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Ok this is going to sound really dumb... The past 2 days I have been receiving DX from the UK, Ireland, Italy, Australia They use call signs like 26 SD 117 Are these from another DX club? Then they add in their frequency. I find it very confusing when they only coming through in...

Skip was thick today, to say the least. I was tuning into some guys on mobile rigs talking ssb on CB ch16. They sounded local so I broke for a radio check. I have only yet talked to my wife and neighbor in their cars on AM. The one guy comes back and says he's in Los Angeles. It blew my...

I have a couple Motorola microphones. Brand new, never used, never hacked on or chopped up either. 1.) HMN1080A 2.) HMN4069D (w/ RJ45 modular connector) You get them both for $10 plus actual shipping to your location. I prefer paypal.

...after sitting in a box for 20 years, I pulled it out to see what horrible things I did to it: I lost "all" the screws, the rubber feet, my soldering was disgusting... and I broke a screw off in the base. The screws to the base are tapped 6-24. Try finding those at Ace hardware. I drilled...

I picked up a supposedly 5/8 wave version of the Astroplane made in Italy by Halcon. The instructions are for setting it up for 10M. I have little interest in that. The last pipe is supposed to be 34.5". There is plenty of pipe to extend another 18" beyond 34.5". Anyway...to rough set swr...

On a garage sale run a couple days ago I found a very strange (to me) radio. Its called a Pace Roadtalker. it only has 16 channels. The case is very plain and black. The heat sinks on the back of this mobile are enormous. It is a very heavy radio. Is this like a 2M or 136-174mhz like a...

Hello new guy here. I have 3 Motorola professional radio microphones that I picked up at a garage sale. I believe the radio provides power to the microphone (electret?). I doubt i caN reuse these for cb, but I wanted a better opinion

Hello New Guy here . I have been into since the 1970's. My old call sign was KLW4293. I picked up an HR2510 several years ago and haven't tried to use it. I was very happy with my Grant XL. It is very tired so I brought out the HR2510. it has been in an environmental controlled room for...