Recent content by Daniel Maine

These past few days the SKIP on 38LSB has been awesome!!!! Ive heard lots of contacts from Milwaukee, Chicago, New Jersey, Orlando, Key West, Eastern Tenn. Arkansas, Alabama, SoCal and Central Virginia. I'm in the Norfolk/Virginia Beach Area and had small exchanges with NJ and Eastern Tenn...

Yeah with the new set up in am getting very good reports of llivery clear communication with a solid (but not overly modulated) signal.

As you all predicted it works just fine :-)

I also just thought.....if the outside of the pl259 connector is occasionally touching the metal frame of the vehicle could that cause issues or no? I never really thought of it like that before and thought I'd ask....regardless I'm gonna replace the power leads and the fuse. Also is it...

So...both on my old CB (cobra 19ultra 3) and now on my Galaxy 979F...the CB will sometimes randomly cut off....after a while, I can turn it back on again...but it's really annoying. My SWR is 1.1 on ch1, and 1.3 on Ch 40. I'm running a NMO Wilson 5000 antenna. My power leads are going...

Good to see. Thanks folks!

I figured it shouldn't damage any equipment. I was wondering how the audio might be affected...if at all.

So...would there be any downside to running rg8x on the "high side" of a linear amplifier going to the antenna and using rg58 on the "low side" to the radio where there is less power going through it? Ideally I'll have enough rg8x to do both sides....but jic...I thought I would ask. We are...