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Re: How rude. Thank you. The advice I gave was practical, field tested, and guaranteed not to smoke your radio. I was a rough framer for time and once in a while we would get blueprints for a house and the roof would be off by about 2 feet. The math worked just fine, but I don't think that the...

The thing is that problems that will occur with an antenna with too high an SWR is that it is a gradual thing. But, I know it is well below 2.0 so I am cool. Just have to make sure I buy Hustler next time.

I can pick up other hams at least 150 miles away. And they can hear me fine and no smoke has escaped my rig so I guess I am doing fine.

O.K. after this, I am ignoring you. I don't need a search engine, I just need word of mouth. And the word on the street by nearly every truck driver I talk to is that the radio shop at the Hopi Travel Plaza will turn your CB into an over modulated dirty sounding piece of crap.

How rude. You my friend are an abusive fuck and I really don't care if you are the reincarnation of Guglielmo Marconi himself. Your attitude is arrogant. You are rude and frankly, I don't care if your knowledge came from God or MIT. I will ignore anything you have to say. Like I said in the...

I plan on getting the 259 or 269. Money's tight right now though. I just ran the numbers of the antenna through a design program and it is supposed to be 12.1 turns on the coil. It is at about 11.9 right now. I had a feeling that it needed more turns, that is why it wouldn't jive when I shorted...

Freecell, I noticed that you have a link to the CB shop in the Hopi Travel Plaza. Are you affiliated with that shop? If so, I wouldn't let that get out too much aside from the few people that are bedazzled by your "skilz". Most truckers that I know who have had them work on their radios have to...

Dude, you are just hateful. And you are arrogant and that is a bad combination.

I love people who try and make everything too difficult and belittle people who simplify things. I follow what I preach and my Wilsons are at 1.1:1. I wouldn't know how to modify the coils of a wilson 2k to get it to be an 11 meter antenna. Some things I need help on. I am learning lots of...

I would like to get the thing down to 1.1:1. Is there anyone who can tell me how many turns I would need on the coil to make it a 2 meter instead of a 6 meter that seems to work on 2 meter?

I just found this home.comcast.net/~ross_anderson/quadix.htm on the internet. I was wondering if the dimensions can be brought down so it can be made smaller. 2.5' x 4' is just a little big for keeping in my truck. I would like to bring it down to about 1' x 2' or maybe even smaller. Any ideas...

Yep. We worked with it and it now is at around 1.5:1 from 144-148. Guess I can live with it. I also have a 1/4 wave paperclip that works great and I am in the process of making a cop-per cactus j-pole. Just have to get it tuned and the coax cut. I am also going to build or get a beam to try and...

Always chose your antenna that handles double the power that your linear puts out. So to be safe, if your linear puts out 750 PEP then you need an antenna that can take 1500 watts.

No, theres not a whole lot of math involved. You either get an NMO mount with 18' of coax and mount the 102 dead center on your roof. A mobile home has plenty of metal to provide a sufficient ground plane or you get a second 102 and 18' RG-58 dual-phase cable from the local truckstop (and make...

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O.K. thanks

It's a joke. Those are all of the stops on the itinerary of the originator of the virus in the movie "12 Monkeys" Now, can I have my username changed to my call?

Yea, my name is Shawn and I live in Springfield and yes, I have only had my license for about a week. What is your point?

If this is possible, please change Xy3lon4 to kd0afk Kilo delta zero alpha foxtrot kilo 73's

I need some help on this. Is there a list of repeaters that are WIRES capable? I have the FT2800M and it has the wires button. The instructions in the manual say to hold this button down and dial in the code. Unless the repeaters have codes like code-a, code-b and so on, it won't work.