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Had a clear sky in south central Illinois. We were in about 98% totality. Took the eclipse glasses in my pocket. Kinda cool to watch from 50 ft in a bucket truck. Temps dropped about 9 degrees. It was something I will not soon forget.
Made some great contacts today as well. Talked to 2 guys in the UK out of my truck sitting on the family property at around 3:30 cst. No problems 5/7 both ways. Kinda late in the day for EU that strong from the mobile. Earlier in the afternoon worked Jordan on 10m ssb from the house off the...
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I run a sirio P5000 with the fold over lever on a permanent mount on the roof of my old Ram. Works great. Only dump around 200 watts into it but swr is great. Good bandwidth also. My mount is a Diamond or comet... think it's a comet so-239 (uhf). Its been several years since install. All good.
I have run all three flavors and have all three I rotate in and out of the lineup.
The old orange face is fine but covers only to 26.000. For most this isn't a big deal but having coverage to 24.000 (for 12 meters) is nice in my opinion. The DX and "CD" offer this.
I currently run a CD in the...
My old 465 has an Expo kit. It has 39 above 40 and 39 below 1. It has one channel of overlap. Channel 1 in "high" toggle is 27.405. Channel 40 in low is 26.965. Other than that it works great. Opened clarifier as well. Great old rig...same as PC122
It's takes a certain kinda buyer.. I agree for $600 you could pick up a used ham rig for ssb/freeband work and a power mic & Cobra 29 and with a little tune for AM.. This would be a better option in my opinion for around the same $.
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