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I Love my wire dipole. For my location and conditions, a dipole is my best option. Always did good for me. But for the last year, I've been looking for more. The wire dipole seems to be a static sucker. If there is any static in the air, the wire will vacuum it right out and down into my radio...

I have an early ZD Mk0 model and am looking for 11m crystals for it. I believe they use Type: HC49 crystals. They look very similar to the HC25 crystal, but with thin wire legs instead of pins. And I need the 41.4875(27.0-27.5) and 41.9875Mhz(27.5-28.0). Anyone know where to get any?

My 101ZD is doing this sometimes, and I have noticed other rigs would do it also. Good loud Receive coming, Key up to reply and it seems like it takes 4 or 5 seconds for the Receive to slowly fade back into hearing range. Anyone know the for sure cause of this?

Last year about this time and my location, I had zero DX RX or TX at all for 23 days. People thought I was lying or doing something wrong, it was my antenna, my radio, my location or maybe the moon. Then one day, BAM, skip was back like it never left. People in the region around me were getting...

After replacing the two finals and the driver bi-polar transistors in this radio with a new Mitsubishi driver and matched set of Mitsubishi finals and aligning them to specs, I am putting this back on the market. It was laways a good talker and great receiver and I have talked to much of EU...

I had heard there was a good replacement speaker for the old 2985DX base radios. Not a stock replacement part, this was supposed to be a better unit. Anyone know what this might be and where to get one? :)

Does any company make a dual final TRANSISTOR radio anymore? I am so fed up with worthless FET's that I will never buy another radio with FET finals. I will go to the dark side and buy a 30 year old Yaesu first. All I want is a nice strong, long lasting radio with some 11 meter channel spread...

Can someone help with the wiring of this Mic. I am attempting to come from my computer sound card to the RCI mic jack. I have a replacement cord with the 6 pin socket end and the other end is just the wires. I have it figured out how to trigger the PTT, but which pins then allow the audio...

I have had this radio since May of 2013. It works great and I have talked to Europe and all the US on it with just a simple dipole and a little power. I had hoped my bad habits had died out with my past photography hobby, of buying new camera models just for the fun of a new toy, but apparently...

As you can see from these images, the inside, when I opened it, was clean and did not show any signs of arcing or smell of smoke or heat. But, I did not get a manual, although I do have a PDF copy. My problem is, I can not get it to work consistantly. The question is, what can go wrong with...

Just wanted to share my successful fix for curing radio interference from my wireless mouse and keyboard to the radio. I would hit a key or move the mouse and hear static on the 2985dx. Even worse, if I had the amp on and keyed up, the mouse would freeze, the computer would lock up and not even...

This radio is about 2 months old. I used it less than 1 month and put it back in the box because I bought a base station to use. The Uniden was never mounted in a vehicle. I used it as a base and ran it with a computer power supply. I talked all over the USA with it, barefoot on a dipole. I was...

Hi All. This particular forum seems to be languishing from lack of interest or some other reason not visible to me. We have a lot of members into CB and I am wondering why no active CB Nets? I think they are fun and interesting, and at least give the mindless collection of logged contacts...

The price was right, from Redman Cb Inc. Shipping was very fast, and the delivery date was revised to 4 days earlier than scheduled, I guess that would be an advertising ploy from UPS. A nice touch with a 3 day holiday coming up. First impression was, this sucker is heavy, 29 pounds. I got it...

I'm wondering what the conventional wisdom is on newer transistor radios and amps and tube amps. With propagation being so dependent on the ionosphere and that being such a flip-flopper, Leave them on all day, or turn them off when it doesn't look promising? What do you do? I have been...

Can a cold solder joint on a PL-259 connector on a jumper cable cause an amp to show high SWR? I don't know enough about theory and don't want to get into another discussion about it, but could that be one obvious cause?

The radio is a Uniden 980ssb, no power amp, and just a meter in line. However, this happens with meter or not. So here is what happens. Whenever I turn off an incandescent light bulb in the room or in the bathroom, I hear about half a second of static. Radio is tuned to 38 lsb, and the light...

While I was sitting here staring out the window at my bird feeder, I was totally bored and wanted something to do, since skip isn't going to cooperate at all this month. The Uniden 980SSB comes with about 4 feet of heavy Ga stranded copper wire with a fuse in line. For most of the length, the...

A friend has "a 2 pill 110v amp does about 125w on AM hi and what ever the dk is on low & swings to about 70w". It has a premap, but does not work. Anyone seen anything like this, or know what it is?

Watching paint dry. Waiting for glue to set. Waiting for my ship to come in. Counting to 100, getting to 63 and realizing you skipped 8. Singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall. Over and over. Looking for the remote. Watching grass grow. :tt2: