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Those antennas go for about a grand new. If the fiberglass is not showing and it still has plenty of white paint it would be worth something. Otherwise you're looking at re-glassing it and that's a project in itself. Changing frequencies involves changing the dimensions of all the copper...

What's so dumfounding to me is he had a perfectly good vent pipe a few feet away.

I've had good luck with a 1/4 wave gp, but I can hear aircraft a lot better than some of the ATC transmitters, several of which are several miles from the airport. Even the airport transmitters are very low power and are sometimes marginal depending on background noise. (it's AM after all) The...

I'm not positive, but I think most of the states that banned scanners in vehicles were almost the same ones that banned radar detectors, and the majority of those have been east of the Rockies IIRC. Typical political thinking.

Microwaves are one thing...HF another. How many alternators are you running? Buy a box of mix 31 and/or 43 ferrites and start putting them on everything going into and out of the computer. After it seems ok, put one more on every lead. If you aren't already, mount the antenna as far to the...

GMRS might get you 12 miles, with a repeater subscription. FRS definitely short range. Although during hunting season a buddy and I took a pair of Cobras along to try them out. Way out away from any noise sources you could go a mile maximum under normal circumstances. At one point we were blown...

Midland and some others tried putting a crystal scanner in certain base stations back in the 70s. They never really took off. You can sometimes find them for sale on Epay, but not often.

A lot of it is in how the auctions are worded. Ebay is fairly clueless itself, so if an obviously 11 meter amp is put up but the description says not for 11m odds are it will stay up. Same applies for the illegal "export only" radios that only seem to be sold in the US. You will never be able...

A hi-band public safety 1/4 wave whip is about 4 inches too short for 2m. Makes a great 220 antenna though, with 3 inches clipped off! The UHF ones are a tad short also, but the higher you go in frequency the broader-banded they tend to be so at low power you might be able to use one. Don't...