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Those are all fantastic radios and over the last 40 years I have owned many of them, but for receive my Anytone 5555N2 blows everything else out of the water. Even better receive than my 1994 Cobra 148GTL side mic, which would be my vote for second best. Anytone's onboard DSP noise reduction...

I am really happy about this part ! Having it be FM mode only and only with CTCSS set is going to rule out the vast majority of regular CB'ers having any interest in it. My big concern, as with Shadetree above, was skip and the village idiots being rebroadcast all across the...

It's a cool feature, but I'm not sure how useful it is in the real world...... In 40 something years on the radio only a couple times have I ever said to myself "damn! I wish I had a repeater right now!". That said, I can see how it might be useful in certain geographical circumstances such...

In theory it should be bidirectional & horizontally polarized. In practice it is indeed horizontal in polarization, but surprisingly it doesn't seem to be highly directional. A surprising outcome as I spent a large amount of time setting it up to favor optimal directions from here ! It...

Here ya go ! Hopefully you can see it OK in the pic as the wire is pretty thin. It is at about 35 feet AGL strung between two trees which are out of sight to the sides. You may have to zoom into the photo to see it clearly. It is fed with Belden 9913 RG8 cable. That is a 4:1 balun at the...

Up here in the wilds of Canada SSB has been hopping with short skip for the last couple months now. It follows an interesting pattern of there being zilch for a few hours, then skip booms in for an hour or two, then there's zilch for a couple hours again. Rinse and repeat. It is also often...

LOL! I hadn't made the connection to the thread title until now ! Just a bit of background.... this thread started in 2019 when the sunspot cycle was it its low point and skip wasn't happening much. It's now been six years since then and we are at the high point of the cycle with skip...

I love playing with wires ! My most recent wire project is an 11 meter delta loop that I strung up between a couple trees at about 35 feet AGL. It massively outperforms my A-99 on most DX contacts. Very very happy with it and it didn't cost a penny to build as I had the wire, the 4:1 balun...

They seem to be pretty resilient. I have mine mounted on the dash of my Toyota SUV (there is really no other place to mount it) and it gets cooking hot on sunny days. Even then I can still talk on it and it works fine. Power output seems to stay the same no matter the temperature. I mostly...

Just noticed this thread has reached an impressive 556 pages ! Well done all ! I raise my cup to Tweetybird, who started the thread way back in 2019, and to every single one of you that's contributed to it over the years......... I've been checking in on this thread regularly since long...

I feel that way about both the CB Radio Lounge AND Facebook !

With all due respect this is about 90% of your problem right here. When skip conditions are marginal, many many stations are well below s5. That doesn't mean you can't work them..... I have an s1 noise floor and regularly work stations coming in at s2 or 3. Is your noise from powerlines or...

What the heck are you talking about ?!?! 11 meters is busier than it's been in years. I am a (mostly) sideband operator and I've been making contacts every day for months and months now. The band is NOT getting quieter. And what are these out of band ham operators you speak of ? Are you...

It won't let me read that without an account. There are few forums I would less like to be involved in than QRZ.com; the amount of anti-CB vitriol and hatred that has been aired on QRZ over the decades is legendary. I have absolutely nothing against ham radio, and I have many friends who are...

I think you guys are being much too paranoid. We've had these distracted driving laws in Canada for some time and I haven't heard of anybody being harassed for having two way radio gear in a vehicle. In fact, my girlfriend was pulled over for talking on her cellphone and driving and issued a...

That's a little strange. The sunspot cycle is at it's peak right now and skip has been booming almost every day now for months. You should be hearing a lot of skip, especially on 6, 19, 28, 38 etc. Are you sure things are skookum with your antenna? Not surprised there's not much local...

They would have to see you actually speaking into the mic or fiddling with the controls to have any chance of a conviction. Just having the radio on and listening would be fine. Remember, these types of laws are being enacted mainly to go after people using their cellphones or texting while...

My eldest is 35 and my youngest a very tall 19. All five of mine have flown the nest although my son is here right now while we do major truck repairs....... My girlfriend however still has her 11 year old daughter living here, so even though I'm all done raising all my little varmints there's...

If you don't own or have access to a signal generator, DO NOT mess with the service menu in this radio !! I can't emphasize this enough. There are menu items in the service menu that once changed CANNOT be set back without an SG. The output from the SG is how those items are set and they...

Ouch. That would suck. I occasionally have up to s9 from dirty powerline insulators. They act up during windy and wet weather. I use an MFJ-1026 and it takes the s 9 down to s 1 easily. It requires a noise pickup antenna and is touchy to adjust, but works really well to eliminate noise...