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I've got one of the newer Chinese made Cobra 148 GTLs with the front facing microphone plug. I've used the thing for a decade or more now and the meter has gotten slightly deformed from the heat of that incandescant bulb so that the needle is stiff and doesn't move properly. I've found the...

Interesting lesson learned from experimentation today. I have a quad bay UHF television antenna. I use it along with two in-line signal boosters to power my police scanner, two television sets and an AM/FM stereo. We get 3 channels for free from a PBS tower about 30 miles away as the crow...

I wrote myself a simple wavelength calculator in Python. I did so for two reasons. 1) I wanted something installed locally that didn't depend on internet access that allowed me to just click one icon, punch in a freq, and get some numbers back. 2) I wanted to tinker around in Python. I...

I recorded this video kind of in a hurry in response to an ongoing debate on Facebook. You'll have to excuse the poor video quality, I replaced my old tablet and the camera on this one is less than impressive to say the least. I need to invest on a dedicated camera. I'm posting this because I...

So my brother recently bought a house and a piece of land in the next county over. The house is on a knoll in the head of a holler, and although he is in kind of an open/high spot relative to the rest of the holler, it's still a holler and has some hills on all but one side of him. So he...

I've got two mobiles, one in my 1999 Dodge Dakota pickup truck and one in my wife's 2006 Ford Taurus. Both vehicles run Cobra 148 GTLs (we generally use single side band when it's just the two of us). My pickup uses an oversized stud with a 6 inch spring and a 102 inch whip. My wife's car...

I just wanted to post a topic to introduce myself. Name is Marcus, handle is Retro, DX number is 323. I was directed here by 777. I met him on 39 LSB and we jaw jacked for quite a while so I thought I'd stop by and see if I could both learn something and maybe contribute a little something...