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I have the antenna about 20' feet up right now till I get the stuff I need for the guide wires, my friend that is 9.80 miles away (straight across) said I am coming in at 5 S-units. I haven't checked the SWR yet, and I am using a Radio Shack TRC-483 40 channel. He is on a Cobra 2000 and a A99...

All what work? I mailed in a money order and drove up the freeway to get a mast.

Picked up the 30 and 40 foot mast today, thanks again to DXman! Now just waiting on the postal service.....

Will do. Could somebody give me a brief explanation of how the sidebands work? I found that if I use channel 8 (where all the action was) I can flip it to LSB and fine tune it to hear them normally, or turn it all the way to the right and make them sound like aliens. I wasn't able to hear...

She works! As far as I can tell. I powered it with the converter and ran an extension cord out to my truck and pluged the truck's antenna into the back of the radio. I parked my other truck about 20 feet away and cranked the volume on each one and its transmitting and recieving, although I...

Lowes didnt have anything, just 5 foot pieces that slip into each and you stack as many as you want. DXman, would you be available this weekend if I can make it up that way?

You thought right. I was going to get a new A99 from somebody local at first but they sold it before I could get it so I ordered the A99 and 100' coax from Sparky. DXman, what do you have?

Hey Beetle, where in Western Washington are you?

I got it to power up 8) I took my 13.8vdc radio shack power supply and I got it to power up with this combo Top O O+ O- O O O Bottom I decided I better try it all with 13.8 volts first before 120. When I get my A99 and coax in the mail I'll test it out. What...

Haha, I wish you didn't say that :D Thanks for the help, I'll see what happens.

I talked to Sparky today on the phone, he seemed like a pretty good guy. My order is shipping out today.

Whoops! I didn't catch that. Heres a few pics.

How do I know what wires to use for the 120v though? There is just one big plug on the back. Does anybody even sell a power cord like this anymore? I'll crack the thing open tomorrow and see whats inside of it. EDIT: I opened it up and I cant really tell what I should do. On the back...

I just got this radio for free off of craigslist, but it doesnt have a mic or powercord. The mic is a 4-pin, no problem, I have a bunch of those, but the powercord has 6 pins, and I believe this radio may have been for base and mobile since it says 120 DC and 12 AC on the back. Its only 23...

I found a couple fiberglass masts online. Will one of those hold up the A99 or should I stick with a metal one?