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I turned on my radio this morning and it never did get too promising so I shut her down and got cracking on fall clean-up to get rid of yard debris so the coming rain could soak in. Better days coming I hope !

You brought out some good points there with the whip or the dipole. But now I have to Push a Mule. Wonder if I'm up to it ! LOL

I've done Bob's CB Shop before but the back way in. I don't do Interstate 80 or 81 in my old age because they bring out the Road Rage in me. People are crazy on the Interstates. I did them when I was Young & Crazy even on my motorcycle but not anymore ! I'm like John Denver ( Country Road Take...

Trouble with him is getting him into putting in the effort to installing a good base antenna. i gave him a Star Duster, coax, and My Uniden 980 once to get him started and he dicked around with other things and had too many projects to get it installed proper and I would have helped him. Then he...

The radio can throw you some surprises sometimes. 3 or 4 years ago before skip was running I was running a yard sale with my grand daughter and had a stock cobra 29 hooked to a Firestik Indoor antenna on top of a piece of sheet out on the lawn and spoke to a fellow 3 states away. Shocked my...

Well it seem like DX was going to cooperate a little better today than it was the past 2 days so I decided to hook the Lincoln II+ back up and give it another shot. After hooking it up and turning it on for a half-hour because it was setting in a cold room, I commenced to try making contacts...

Thanks for the come back ! That's more like some answers I was looking for because I have a buddy down the road about 7 miles I'd like to talk back into radio again and think we could connect on on Side Band but have my doubts about AM because of this hilly area. We can't all afford big high...

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Was wondering what kind of range ( Distance ) could a person expect to get out of a 12 watt SSB radio compared to a 4 watt AM radio. Of coarse line of sight makes a difference as we all know but most of us don't have that luxury so I'm thinking average conditions. What's been your experience...

Wouldn't you know it, my computer geek neighbor is back to work today and my radio is deader than a door nail. I think this must be the meaning of Sometimes you eat the bear & Sometimes the bear eats you !

Hey I was thinking about you a few days ago ! Where you been hiding ? LOL

The old Dx got rocking early this morning as soon as I turned the radio on to listen as I was prepping for the day. It was trailer rebuilding day today so as I was traveling for parts I could listen to some good DX with multiple channels busy. Starting to get excited about being shut in and...

Thanks for the thought and your generosity but that is something I would hire done because I don't trust my skills with no prior training. Right now I have enough on my plate to clear off and will have to wait for the DX 2547 to take it's turn working on my wallet. LOL

Yeah Jeff I try barefoot once in a while but haven't succeeded to often but there is always hope. Here is a article I found on Yahoo so I thought I would let you guys pick it apart for interest ! https://www.yahoo.com/news/biggest-solar-flare-since-2017-153552860.html

While coming back from my VA doctors appointment my McKinley was busy on LSB from Ch.19-40 but it was listen only. When I get the get ready for winter chores done I'll have to reinstall the foot warmers again. Like always I missed a lot of chances by not being ready ! LOL

My plate was real full of outside clean up today but I did let my Cobra 2000 run so I could hear the DX running every time I came in the house. I gave a shout to Northern Ireland a couple times to no avail. Someday I'll luck out.

Last I knew Bob is suffering from health issues and can't spend as much time at the bench.

Unfortunately I never had a chance to join one of those because I was too busy working making the poor mans dollar trying to dig out of the hole life had me in. This forum is as close as I will come to a social club. There is a Good Bunch right here and you don't have far to travel to get here...

Won't do me much good but it's good to see some are still hanging on to the older ways instead of running scared !

So is there ( better,worse, or no difference in RX ) with the germanium diode ? Thanks Mike