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I love mine it is my CB base station

VERY NICE ....... Dom't let my wife see it or i'll have to clean my station up....

YEP you can work the world on 17 with low power ..... I sometime use only 5 watts and a R7 vertical

Mag-257 .... But remember there is no such thing as a freeband that in mind stay off of 28.000 - 29.700mhz and no one will realy care .....

Classic COPPER LOL ?

You might like this .... Sunday I got a E-Mail From Lon ( tech808 ) it was dated Dec 4 2011 ....... Nest trick since he is dead ........ at least 6 months. I guess we can't blame COPPER for this one ....

Very good !

HAMS fought for decades to end controled carrer modulation on many AM mode radios only to see swing kits bring it back .... The Ranger is a nice low end radio leave it alone ..... A late 50's Heathkit controlled carrer transmiter .... on left.

On 10 meters there is no down side less thsn 1% of HAMS use AM on 10 meters. DX is good right now on 10 meters you can work the world on 100 watts You never know even on 2 meters what the DX gods will give you ....

MOST officers don't care if you lissen to them in fact it is in a way good since it gives them many more eyes and ears.....

I have worked in public safety for a long time .... The KEY for the scramble used by police and sheriff offices is well protected by the agencys they will jail you if you get caught and the charge is federal .... NOTE ... VERY LITTLE is scrambled my agancy uses if only when they need to .....

GREAT RADIO ! It is the oldest radio in use in my shack.

I built many of them and Knightkit too one of my first CB was a HEATHKIT !

I have had mine since 1970 it is no good above 50 mhz .....

LMR-400 is what i use here BUT with the high amount of rainfall and a 50 foot run over a flat roof the Davis cable last longer and dosn't get wet as fast. I use it for these runs They are both good at 144.200 MHZ .... I find spects on most everything to be opomistic at best ...

The DAVIS burial fles is good stuff I use it here along with LMR-400 and can't tell any diffrence ....

GOOD there is so much to do even with a tech ticket.. Spend your money wisely I like the FT1900R as a starter 2 meter radio and JETSTREAM base antennas .... as for 10 meters SPEND a bit more and get a all band radio like a FT-857 or a IC-450 or if you can get one used a IC-706. So manby...

NEVER had a problem with any of mine

JTB-1 is a Very good antenna another antenna but not cheap is the G7-144 hustler ..

AGAIN ..... I DON'T MESS WITH 35 year old radios for those who do have at it ..... e-bay has distroyed the used market ....