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    I used to know this...

    Just talking legalities here... isn't there some class of license that you are supposed to have in order to repair CB radios? It seems that I remember something about that from years ago but now it has faded. Can anyone tell me?
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    Here's a question on a base antenna

    This antenna is an old, early 80's Radio Shack 5/8 wave vertical, 3 ground plane radials flat, all aluminum, no coating or anything like that and back then, it did it's job reasonable well. Now it is over 20 years later and I have re-connected it to a radio. The first thing that I saw was that...
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    Push up poles?

    I'm curious about these. Where can you get them? ( I have browsed antenna areas on a number of web sites and I cant find them.... perhaps I dont know where to look!) Are they worth having in the first place? Push Up implies that you can loosen, raise, tthen tighten. Assuming this is true...
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    Mobile problem...sort of a RF grounding theory type question

    Back in June I resurrected my old '87 F150 Stepside bringing it back from the dead. In so doing I had to troubleshoot a taillight/brake light problem that wound up being that the bed was not properly grounded to the frame (never could find a ground strap and, when I jumpered the lamp ground the...