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I have done CB. I had a blast with it in the 70s. Built my own antennas for the radio and had some fun running DX with 4 watts. I heard of the guys with foot warmers and such but never could afford them. I was busy buying the next radio. I eventually bought a Shakespeare Big Stick and...

I had a KW7 or it's older brother back in the 70s. I used it on my Econoline Ford Van. I did a signal test with it and the one I was using then was outperforming my 96 inch fiberglass CB antenna by one S unit. I was pretty happy with its performance. I have misplaced the KW7 over the years...

Back in the days of lovely sunspots during the 70s the CB ruled. Every one seemed to have them. A good share of those were really challenged when it came to social skills. Some of them were just downright mean. The stuff they would do on air to annoy others was pretty amazing. You wondered...

Thanks Captain Kilowatt. I see the connection points here in your photos. Well I hope I do anyway. Back to my beam and get this done. Thanks for the help.

Thanks BJ radionut. (again my spell check wanted to make you radiant like so many years back when I joined the group) I did make the coax matching stub after more searching on what it was and the dimensions it needed to be cut but I hooked it up wrong. The PDF file from the internet was very...

I bought a used 8 element 2 meter beam. I was replacing the corroded parts with nice shiny stainless steel parts. I looked at the downloaded assembly instructions and see where there is a coax bathing balun. I see a part number for this also. Well I have tons of coax both 50 ohm and 75 ohm...

We will be doing voice and FT8. We work 20 and 40 meters

Our club will be working a POTA next Saturday. We usually begin noon Mountain time. Parks are open in Idaho and we have all decided we are going to just enjoy ourselves and not get to wiggy about recent stuff. Just have a good time and promise not to shake hands and pass out kisses or hugs. :p

A friend who we shall call the coax fairy dropped by not only a lot of coax to me but a Zamp Solar panel. It put out 22 volts on a sunny day. I bought a charge controller this week and have the panel and controller charging up a battery I happened to forget to return for core charge when I...

I will be on the back patio or the side of the house with batteries. Hope to make some good contacts with many of you. KJ7EFC from Boise.

Well it is good to know I am not alone in having a hard time with CW. That is what kept me from getting my license 30 years ago. I am glad they turned it into a learn it after you pass thing which it seems many do.

Yeah. Maybe I just need to learn to spell it right. Thanks.

New bench and not a menu driven radio on it. How do you manage? Giggle.

Saw one on the air. Tried to respond but never reached them. I am a essential worker so have not been around my radio as much as I would like.

So Homer I got my license too. Expanded from 11 meters to all the other bands. Got into FT8 pretty quick. Still though I see and agree with your sentiments. I have not done any work with Chirp. Doubt I ever will. I can do a programming stint by hand but I don't really care much for it. I...

These are some really great stories. Thanks for sharing them.

Very clean work.

I have made several new varientions of the starduster. My XYL didn't like the view of the antenna up on our patio awning. It was pretty obvious and big. I have moved to a design that is made of wire inside a PVC pipe with two radials sloping down from the feed point. The PVC has a hanger at...

I decided to put up a 40 meter inverted V to compare to my 40 meter quarterwave vertical antenna I have built. I really was expecting more from the inverted V but compared to my vertical It was deaf. The only signals I could get off the inverted V had to be really strong. Well there wasn't...

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