Recent content by Rick330man

I go back and forth between a Midland 575MXT and a Retevis RA 86. As a base, I don't need a zillion repeater pairings. I have five (5) Florida Keys repeaters programmed, two (2) Miami ones and one (1) in Naples. The 50 watts on the Midland is a big plus, but the Retevis is more user friendly...

Kick-off time for our Memorial Day LSB 16 net will be noon eastern/11:00A.M. central/9:00A.M. pacific on Saturday, May 25th. Let's follow our established routine of aiming for every hour on the hour after that. We have a month to get the word out. Let's hope Mother Nature is listening.

MEMORIAL DAY WEEK-END LSB 16 DX NET I've been away from CB for a while. Two GMRS groups I'm very actively involved with are diligently setting up a system of linked GMRS repeaters that go from Key West on up to Miami and continuing to Fort Lauderdale. The project has been quite a success, but...

To add a little spice to the SSB walkie talkie discussion, I had a Radio Shack headset mic that I use with the AH100. It has just a little bit of amplification. I'm surprised at how good it sounds. But I also have an old Turner +3 base mic wired for it. I have to keep it very low, but it...

I have two Cherokee AH100s and I've talked to several worldwidedx members with it. Most folks I communicate with are surprised to learn that they were talking to a walkie talkie. The AH100s are my "go to" CB radios that I take out on my boat, where I'll usually spend two or three nights...

Interesting. GMRS has a loyal crowd down here in South Florida. The South Dade GMRS club and the Conch Auxiliary Radio Emergency Services (CARES) group have joined forces and set up a chain of GMRS repeaters that covers from Key West all the way into Palm Beach county. Most of the...

I use CB and GMRS. As I've commented before, CB down here in the Keys never went through the insanity that crippled it in the big cities. It has served very well as a house to boat communication system that will outperform cell phones. The current GMRS set up - with extensive repeater...

Around 8:45A.M. today I could hear stations in England communicating with stations in New York and Massachussetts on LSB 38 and LSB 40. Not much happening on LSB 16, but I'll be monitoring it on and off throughout the day.

I had one of those years ago. It died about 10 years ago. I ran a Johnson desk mic - which I think is pretty much a Turner +2 guts inside a Turner +3 case. No complaints with the radio, but I didn't put any more effort into it after it died.

I made contact with a 421 in Toronto. Looks like my best side for DX was to the north. Considering the mess I heard on LSB 38, I was hoping we'd have a little more activity on LSB 16.

Just barely hearing 898 in Kansas and can hear his QSO with another barely audible station that is in Northern California. Yes, that was me trying to connect with you. There is DX propagation. We just don't seem to have enough stations out there taking advantage of it.

Just had a nice QSO with a London, Ontario, Canada station. The QRM from AM15 and AM 17 seems to have dissipated. I can hear some stations calling DX, but none have signals strong enough to QSO with. Many of you reporting contacts are stations I have been able to communicate with in the past...

It is 82 degrees here. No snow removal to worry about. LSB 38 has been a mess since early this morning. LSB 40, 37 and 36 have also been quite busy. I'm hearing Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico, Maryland, Texas, etc. The skip is hopping! However, I haven't heard any stations on LSB 16. There...

There are some interesting weather systems working their ways across north America today. On top of that, the prediction for Dx propagation on 12-10 meters today is in the "Good" range. It looks like I'm going to have to give the Bearcat 980 and the A99 a chance for their voices to be heard...

Today, New Years Day was feast or famine. At one point, the skip on AM 15 and AM 17 was bleeding over badly onto LSB 16. A half hour later, it would be gone...and so would the skip conditions on LSB 16. LSB 38 was the same - with the addition of the idiot who kept playing the Cars' Moving in...