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Hello Slowmover: Thanks for the flowers. A basic description: The Sonic Cushion is just two parts, a GE-47 light bulb, and a 8 Ohm to 25 Ohm Variable Resistor (A common 8 Ohm L-Pad Variable Pot or resistor will work). The radios external speaker is connected to the GE-47 light bulb, then the...

Ok a little more info here, I forgot to add. The Gonset G12 Tube CB Radio sucked a lot of battery current thats why I had a battery charger charging when I was operating. I had to take the battery out of Dads truck to run it. So that meant the battery had to be reinstalled back into Dads truck...

Gonset G12 running off old car battery and noisy noisy old battery charger that filled the room up with Hydrogen Gas that demanded the window be opened. Antenna was a 102 inch whip taped to a pipe. Oh 1966 great stuff for a creppy teenage kid Jay in the Great Mojave Desert.... "Next Gas...

Hello AM: I don't have a clue what the cost was, from experience I have paid $175.oo for a set up fee, then get to pay for the material, then the labor. Some Aluminum brackets, adapters, mounting plates, Hubs, and all such needed do-dads. Made a bunch of Billet Aluminum Hubs for rebuilding...

Hello AM: Wow Iam impressed good going machining a new base piece, looks great. I would suggest that the outer piece that holds it all to gather be Fiberglass Tubing with thick wall, and not the plastic pipe stuff. As the Fiberglass Tubing is made for much more stress and such. Now with new...

Hello Mudfoot: I liked slowmover's input. But the Radar Detector can help saving one from a speeding ticket "SOMETIMES" not always. Some police use them and some police do not. Some police use a laser system which is better I am told. But I know there also laser detectors, again sometimes...

The 8 dB pick off is approx. 16% of the total input power. I have a 2KW dummy load with a 20 dB pick off and get hooked up wrong at times wondering whats wrong NOW! That's why the pick off connector is usually at BNC sometimes. Jay in the Great Mojave Desert

Hello All: That base part looks to me to be reusable, it can be cleaned up and the holes taped, its not pretty tho. You can have a machinist make one from Aluminum but will be expensive but doable. The Top Hat can be made from Aluminum solid 1/8" round material or thin steel wires. It may not...

WOW! A Hallicrafters SX-25 Super Definite receiver, Oh the memories. In the late 1060's Dad bought a WWII Army Crash Boat (called a AVR 104 Ft long, not a luxury yate) made for picking up crashed aircraft during the War. It was converted into a Albacore Tuna fishing boat with a refrigerated 50...

Hello Alexis: Yes those Super Mag Antennas break there as your photos show. That was/is a common problem with those antennas. I had one and it broke in the same place. The part that broke is a insulator, and can be replaced with a solid piece of Fiberglass Rod. See Max Gain at...

Hello All: Great idea having a contest during the "Defcon 1" stay inside policy. While working a few projects in the Advanced International Research World Headquarters for Advanced State of the Art Design and Operation ( the garage) and listening in on CH 38 LSB I heard some skip stations come...

I use a Alinco 735 that has both VHF and UHF Ham bands. I use a combiner to allow separate VHF and UHF Antennas. As I don't like the performance of a duel band antenna for mobile use. Its simple for me to use, as a simple minded radio operator. I bought the radio used and it had been already...

Its way more important to keep communication with family and friends than reciting rules and regulations. Just watch how much everyone is into the rules when some ones missing on a camping trip or driving across country. During a long distance jeep run in the desert, we had to cover a CB...

The BaoFengs UV-5R type of Hand held radios work well on Murs. As a family communicator for family the legal considerations go out the window. While camping here in the Mojave Desert many of the jeep clubs have a CB and VHF radios. The VHF radios work quit well. We once used the cheap FRS hand...

Hello All: Yes that's a big ten-4.... Mudfoot said: "I tried and tried, but failed. Had to take nozzles off and slosh what I could in the filler neck. I'd like to shove those nozzles up the inventors.... Absolutely outrageous junky cans. I have four 5 gallon cans at home. They all have proper...

Hello Bob: Wow really. How many S-Units was the change when the Gain Master was rotated? If it was just a needles with no biggie, but if it was more do tell. Yeah I would vote for the matching stub radiating causing a pattern difference. But I have been proven wrong several times by hands on...