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OK, I called ICM today, talked to Sarah, ordered my two crystals. You can order 1 or dozens. Mine are $25 each, brand new, and $7 to ship. Takes about 3 weeks. :LOL:

Thanks for looking Waverider. The day after I took those pics, I bought a 3 section push up pole, goes to 24 feet. It's a painters pole. So of course, my standoff is a modified paint roller handle without the roller on it. Give me a couple days and I will post those pics. I still use a pulley to...

Yes, ICM is OK City, but wouldn't you know it, they close at 2:30 PM on Friday. LOL I called like 5 minutes too late. :) I'll call Monday And to make matters worse, my new board is here from J. A. Pan and the mail weasel brought it, couldn't find me for a signature and took it back. The Dork.

Never mind... Sorry we no longer make crystals you can try ICM Monique Whan www.calebscrusade.org (jan crystals)

You remember the cost? :)

Decoder, are they HC49 with thin wire legs? Not pins like 101E crystals? That would be awesome. I did buy the correct frequency crystals on E-bay, but they had very thick pins that I had to drill holes for, made a mess and lifted traces. Got a replacement board in the mail now, but don't want to...

I Love my wire dipole. For my location and conditions, a dipole is my best option. Always did good for me. But for the last year, I've been looking for more. The wire dipole seems to be a static sucker. If there is any static in the air, the wire will vacuum it right out and down into my radio...

I have an early ZD Mk0 model and am looking for 11m crystals for it. I believe they use Type: HC49 crystals. They look very similar to the HC25 crystal, but with thin wire legs instead of pins. And I need the 41.4875(27.0-27.5) and 41.9875Mhz(27.5-28.0). Anyone know where to get any?

I meant other rigs like my Yaesu 757 GXII. My Yaesu 101EE did it a few time also, but in that case, it WAS the relay and replacing them fixed it. ;)

Thanks Captain Kilowatt, that seems to have been what it was. I had never noticed any change at all with that switch, putting it down to an old, sleepy rig. Some of this stuff takes months to come back if it ever does, after time on the shelf. Plus, it's new to me and my 101EE has no equivalent. :D

My 101ZD is doing this sometimes, and I have noticed other rigs would do it also. Good loud Receive coming, Key up to reply and it seems like it takes 4 or 5 seconds for the Receive to slowly fade back into hearing range. Anyone know the for sure cause of this?

It seems to slowly get better. For the past 2 months, I would have 3 days of nothing, then maybe get 1 contact a day, then 2 or 3 more days of nothing. Now I get a few contacts most days, but still nothing regular or dependable. Been averaging 10 to 12 contacts a day for the last week and a day...

Don't be shy about buying another 101E. They were the best model, and came with the processor installed. I held off at least a year cause of all the stories about tube cost and being hard to find. You can still get them though and I would not put it past someone to start making them again, or a...

Wow, a 2 year old thread. So much has changed since then I hardly know where to begin. The Crusader went dead. I had new pills put in it, used it a few days and it just never did perform. It is sitting on the floor in a corner, covered by other stuff. I have 4 other amps, all sitting on...

If you got one, try it. If you don't have one, you probably never will now, they are old, out of date and rare.

Most modern meters just got the power switch, this old thing has a modulation meter, a SWR meter, forward and Reverse power and a watt meter. It takes some experimenting to understand it. If you know of another meter that does all that, I would like a link to it. It still is not as good as a...

No, I never found even a mention of it on Google or anywhere else. It's still working good though.

That's the depressing part, no locals here. And talking local means line of sight, I have no line of sight in a canyon. Unless they are down canyon from me, which is still only a narrow window, then I probably can't hear them and they won't hear me. If it were not for my Inverted V Dipole or the...

Last year was good compared to this year. Last year the skip died in early April and for me, it lasted till mid May, then it came back like it never had died, in one day. I went about 28 days with absolutely no skip from anywhere. I have a bad location to start with here, in a hole, overhead...

Late last night, about 10pm, I was on a chat and someone said they were getting skip on 38. So I turned it on and heard some and listened for a few minutes, then flipped on the heater. Just about the time it was getting settled down, the lightning started, so I had to shut it down. Been...