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Here's ours, mostly on the (way too sunny) side and back of the ham shack, along with two of these "earth boxes." Was hot in the middle of that day, thats why everything looks a bit wilty. Need to put a shade over the tomatoes to filter some of the sun.

I forgot to include with this: If you dig through the data sheets on the "classic" cb final PA devices, you'll see that they mention that they have some sort of high-SWR protection, they can just eat that return SWR and dissipate it as heat. You've probably keyed up an older CB a bunch of times...

I initially asked here as I value the opinions of Scrappers higher than others. ;) Seems the local rag chew channel around the eastern San Fernando Valley is 12. Worked Mississippi and Kentucky on 12 AM as the sun was setting in the last couple weeks, have not worked anyone on SSB yet, though I...

So, it seems that the take-away from the opinions presented are as such: 1.) Do ya feel (really really really) lucky, punk? 2.) Find a way to get on 38 LSB.

I'd say the latter, if the bad is open, its gonna be open, a few kHz either direction isn't going to matter much.

Let me guess, you work late at night and have the Black Sabbath cranked up to 11 in there, right? ;)

Curious about 11m DXing. Whats the best AM channel that would give me the best chance to work skip with a stock radio and a good antenna? A lot of times 10M is like a morgue, but 11 is rocking! Thanks

Yeah, no, looking at how much this stuff has gone up in price! To answer part of my own question, I poked around other parts of this forum and found a big collection of free plans. Interesting stuff, especially the power combiners.

Clearly there's many in this group with a lot of CB experience, and while I did drive around with a CB in my car as a goofy 16 year old back when Papa Bush was president, there's a lot I don't know. First, what significance do the channels have nowadays? I can clearly see that 6 is "Bruthas...

Great write up! Aside from the reasons Nacho mentioned for the HT's, the investment of the time and effort and $$RIB$$ also lets you play with some of the mobile units, Maxtrac/Radius, Spectra, etc. Especially for these mentioned, you can build your own radio-to-RIB cables and save a bunch of...