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I'm hearing Iowa, Texas, Pennsylvania on 37-38-39 LSB here in the desert southwest this weekend, but have a noise floor at S4 to S5. And the Uniden 980SSB at 10W into a base-loaded MFJ-1974 portable vertical isn't making it in the other (outbound) direction apparently, as no calls are answered.

Pair of Ch. 14 AM walkie talkies with built-in code oscillators, circa 1980-1981. Present from Grandpa & Grandma. Then read about ham radio and wrote to the ARRL in 1983 for info and got a Tech license in 1984. Used CB as utility communications at summer camps on the Chesapeake Bay for a few...

Worked 279 in Illinois on his home-made 3-element beam, Ch. 36 LSB, both of us barefoot. Here in the desert southwest this Saturday afternoon, running a base-loaded 8 ft vertical, MFJ-1974. Hearing Indiana calling Alaska at the moment. Eastern Tennessee, northwest Arkansas, and Chicago also...

Friday was good, worked Illinois and Wisconsin from the desert Southwest. CH 36 LSB as 38 is a mess. After sunset heard Melbourne Australia and New Zealand north island on 38 LSB.

Thursday was active, heard Ontario, New York Staten Island, Boston, Indiana, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, New Jersey, and Hawaii on 37 & 38 LSB coming into the desert southwest when mobile on interstate 40. No real contacts with only 10W into a NMO-27 whip. Can't bust through that pile-up...

I have nothing here on 37/38/39 LSB this Saturday morning, 12 W Uniden 980SSB into a Firestick clone on a hood/fender mount.

Deafening silence here. Nothing heard on Ch 38 LSB, not even the Ch 6 Super Bowl guys are coming in. Broke out the CB Handie Talkie to make sure the radio was still working.

Hearing Tacoma Washington at S4, Ontario Canada, the Buckeye State (Ohio), and Massachusetts come through Wednesday at the lunch hour here in the desert southwest. This is on 37LSB, as 38LSB is sounding like the Super Bowl for some reason.

Just worked the Big Island of Hawaii coming in at S5-S6 3pm Mountain time on Saturday from here in the mountains of New Mexico. Random opening. Band's been mostly dead all day, monitoring 28.400 MHz tried Vermont at S0 to S1 in the morning but no go.

I'm hearing the band fade in and out 8am Mountain time here on Saturday in the desert southwest. Louisiana, southern Wisconsin, and St. Louis MO peaking at S3, Chicago, Alabama, and Biloxi Mississippi at S5. The barefoot Uniden 980SSB not making it the other direction, though. We're starting...

HRO has them in stock.

The ACE Hardware offerings from Channel Master and RCA have the standard "nesting" or "folded in" end to enable stacking.

Ace Hardware has Channel Master and RCA masts, 8.5 ft and 4.5 ft sections. If not in stock, you can order it for pick-up at your local ACE, that's what I did for my last 8.5 ft section. ACE part #3534716 and #3534716.

I've had the radio on in the background most of today (Sat. Oct. 22). DX fading in and out, 2 to 5 minute band openings at the most monitoring 37/38/39 LSB. Confirmed Kentucky finally receiving him at S7 levels here at the end of the afternoon. S2 to S3 noise all day long.

I re-cut the 80m doublet the other weekend for 75m phone, put a 1:1 current balun at the feed and replaced the ladder line with 75 ft of RG-213. This was to optimize for the local 75m phone net here in New Mexico. Haven't tried the re-cut antenna on 11 meters until today, got the Uniden 980...

Last Sunday Sept. 25 was crazy, 10 watts Uniden 980SSB into a 4ft base-loaded whip on a trunk-lip mount. Worked Michigan upper peninsula, Chicago, St. Louis, northern Alabama, and the Big Island of Hawaii among others from the vehicle here in the desert southwest. Had to stay off 38 LSB and go...

Ch 31 (27.315 MHz) is an FM voice calling frequency in Europe in the standard 40 channels (CEPT & FCC). http://fldx.org/site/11m-call-frequencies-and-operating.php

Who knows. I think most of the European countries had FM in their regulations by the mid to late 1990s, but at that point compact/pocketable mobile phones were taking off in the U.S. for mobile car communications, so the U.S. CB market was primarily trucking, and AM on Ch. 19 was "good enough"...

On Friday morning worked NB699 on 38LSB groundwave across the median of Interstate 40 as we headed in opposite directions here in the desert southwest. Another half QSO with a diffrrent station a bit later in the morning but the band wasn't holding up for DX.

No, I used books in 1984 for my Tech/General theory and a Hypercard stack (early hyperlink/hypermedia system) on a Mac in 1992 for Advanced/Extra. Both formats worked fine, the thing is to have the book/software/website generate multiple example exams from the real question pool.