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Funny I almost put 100lbs. in or I did then I went back lowered it to 50lbs. I think. I did not want to be too over the top. Back in the day when I worked at the electronic repair shop we bought a lot of transistors in bulk to get the better price point and then did our own testing to make...

Sorry guys been busy working on cars and house before winter hits!

Don't know don't care. I am putting a 108" on my car by this weekend! Good enough! LOL I have to admit I feel a bit trashy putting a big long whip on my car. I want the bandwidth, radiation, durability and simplicity more than I want to blend in with normies! LOL

I have not used a curve tracer since 1993. I do not work commercially just work on my own gear. So I was considering getting an Atlas DCA55 just as a reference as no option for matched pair was available. I noticed the DCA 75 offers curve trace when linked to PC. The DCA 75 cost about $175...

I can. I took photo's with my new phone and having issues putting in my email to send photo's to my PC. I did not take photo's of the tuning section. At the time I did not have a flat tip small enough to remove the knob on the tuning section hand. All kinds of Phillips. The wife and kids are...

Since I did not get into the hobby until the 1990's I was wondering how the tube and solid state amp situation was back in the 1970's and early 1980's? Was the market less polarized than today or was it much the same? Prior to web browsers even if you where on bulletin boards the flow of info...

First I purchased this 1-2 year ago along with a Palomar TX-150 solid state NOS from RF Parts for $149 each. I have not done anything with them yet. I opened the case of the TX-75 and found a red wire going to the power switch wedged between the case and the cover with a chunk of insulation...

I agree I hate menu driven radio's. I also hate cluttered up face plates like Stryker 955 equally worthless to try and mount and use while driving in the average non-commercial vehicle. The most useable designs I have ever seen for a radio is the RCI2950 since all of the regular controls have a...

Because a lot of CB'er's are not that bright. We have a lot of cavemen with 1970's thinking. Just like the people that take a 3/4-1 Ton diesel truck and proceed to put low profile giant tires, wheel extensions, huge lift kits and then roal coal with terrible tunes! They think they are cool but...

Now if we are not actually talking CB but export radio's. Now if we are talking Export radio's...... Give me something like the Yeti Optima but give me a face plate that is detachable, about 65% to 70% of the size of the RCI2950 and similar layout of controls, eliminate menu driven functions...

Simple I would go to China and work with engineers to produce a CB that had DSP, EQ, compression choices on TX and RX. Wide and narrow filters on TX and RX. Remote mounting with detachable face plate. Ability to use a PC or Phone to control it. eSSB. An optional digital mode to give us better...

I have never followed that. When people parrot this nonsense I just ignore them and move on. My radio's all have USB and LSB so I use them both freely and with out concern. Obviously if there is local traffic on a channel I will not disrupt it and will either join them or go some place else. I...

I think it was Antron that made a "Quad Rod" and my mentor thought they where really good.

108" whip or 102" whip with 6 inch aluminum bar to get to 108"! Open external capacitor antenna like monkey made and the like. In the magnet mount category Wilson 5000 or K40.

Pre-amps are a waste of time the way they are used on amplifiers. To be effective it would really need to be fairly complex. As executed on CB amplifiers they amplify the noise the same as the signal you want which is a problem today. Get some sort of notch filter and learn how to use it or get...

My first experience with a TS Sweet16 and 3200 where in 1991 in H.S. in Hinesville Ga.! It was a Black man a soldier driving a Cadillac with the first open air capacitor antenna I had seen as well. He was using a Summerkamp RCI2950 Clone and a Sweet 16. The Sweet 16 was blown and he was...

When ever I see these questions I think one of two things 1)"Is this guy trolling us?" 2)" Did this guy seriously just ask this question with no shame?"????? Sure just go find yourself a 16-32 transistor all Toshiba box! Then get an extra alternator, Super Cap's or Lipo batteries. The smart...

I would never use an unregulated supply on a radio especially!!! 13.8 has been the standard on most supplies that are not server power supplies for decades. Back in the old days like when I was in H.S. and you could buy Toshiba 2SC2879's for $9 to about $12 in bulk knowing that they could stand...

You have options. You can still purchase multi-cap cans. You can re-stuff the original cap with modern caps, or you can eliminate that old design and just put new modern caps in the circuit.

How large is the attic or crawl space from end to end? Do you have a large open living room with vaulted ceiling? Dipoles can be hidden almost any place in a wall behind trim. There are many types of antenna's that could be constructed from coax or solid materials attacked to studs. Sure you...