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  1. Christopher17

    Stryker 955 or a Ranger2995

    I hear Stryker 955 all across the US, they sound good, audio is clear on sideband , I hear more 2995's but audio is not as good in my opinion My vote is for the Stryker, buy it from a shop like Bell's CB that will do the frequency conversion, peak, tune, and align, without voiding your warranty...
  2. Christopher17

    Ideas/show and tell for beam style antennas

    http://pd9z.com/wire-antennas/
  3. Christopher17

    Ideas/show and tell for beam style antennas

    http://www.wa2ooo.com/Quads.html
  4. Christopher17

    Ideas/show and tell for beam style antennas

    http://dx-antennas.com
  5. Christopher17

    UFO'S, Abductions?

    Similar phenomenon in Marfa Texas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights
  6. Christopher17

    UFO'S, Abductions?

    Yep, multiple witness, reported to MUFON
  7. Christopher17

    11 meter is very quiet?

    Same person who says uuuhhhuuu over and over he was on 37 also, almost every time skip is rolling he starts up , at least they're off The banjo music today
  8. Christopher17

    11 meter is very quiet?

    Carolinas to West Indies 37 38 39 lsb
  9. Christopher17

    11 meter is very quiet?

    629 Grenada 39 lsb
  10. Christopher17

    Current costs for CB radio work (NO shop names please!)

    100$ gets you diagnosed with minor repair and alignment, estimate after that
  11. Christopher17

    FURTHEST LOCAL NON-DX CONTACT?

    Got it, the title is fixed, non skip contact, somewhere around 45 miles , it's hard to determine if signal is skipping here to Austin, have talked to truckers on I35 on lsb
  12. Christopher17

    FURTHEST LOCAL NON-DX CONTACT?

    So found a milage calculate webpage and Belize is only 1250 miles, so my contacts with Ontario Canada are further at 1700 miles on LSB
  13. Christopher17

    FURTHEST LOCAL NON-DX CONTACT?

    Belize is my futherest contact, not sure how to calculate the milage , on AM with the old Navaho
  14. Christopher17

    Time for change

    Good stuff kopcicle and 579, the fuss is an old one I think, there are some VERY knowledgable techs on this forum, the Elmer's in my neighborhood are stuck up princess, ask a question here and you can get 10 different responses and none are wrong, just another man's opinion, personally I find...
  15. Christopher17

    A Dipole for your CB Base Station?

    Take 450 ohm ladder line & cut a piece 18 feet long.Next exactly in the middle cut one side only, leave the other side solid. What you now have is a full wave loop only squashed together(Think Moxon). Ends of 18 foot section open or fused?
  16. Christopher17

    A Dipole for your CB Base Station?

    Want to experiment with wire dipoles , everything I've read says build it 1/2 wave, question is : can I build it full wave or 5/8 or .64? for some reason I had it in my head to build each leg at around 18 feet, making the whole thing a full wave, keep seeing 102" legs for 11 meters, probably a...
  17. Christopher17

    11 meter is very quiet?

    Caribean coming in now on 38lsb several operators talking up and down Eastern US to Canada
  18. Christopher17

    11 meter is very quiet?

    yep nothing coming in here either a buddy bought a used truck the other day that has a radio and amp in it that he doesn't want, got first dibs on it, he didn't know what any of it was except it says 250w linear :)
  19. Christopher17

    Breaking News: Armed protester in Louisville shoots self and two others.

    Protesting violence with more violence , (y)news search says death in Austin , injury in Louisville , etc. etc.
  20. Christopher17

    Echo settings

    AM just barely on, between the first or second mark, delay at 0, off for SSB