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It occurs to me, if your antenna stud is 8' from the ground, you should be able to get away with a 6' antenna. Mounted, that would put the top of your antenna at 14'. As it would still smack low overpasses, and tree branches, I would avoid fiberglass, but center coil antennas with steel whips...

@trees: You mentioned a Western Star, so I will assume you to be a trucker. So am I. This project seems interesting as something to do, and a learning experience, but I don't see any further benefit. I think that you would be better off with a standard 4' fiberglass whip, because that will be...

The upside of the internet, is a compilation of the world's intelligence. The downside is, we also get to sift through the world's asininities to get to it.

Oh, what a spiffy tool. I want one, now. When I was working for a carnival, and something wasn't behaving as it should, the mantra was, "Beat it with a hammer 'til it's fixed!" Indeed, the phrase still serves me today, lo these many years later.

Of course we can blame the Unions. Unions grew from collecting dues to capitalize on EMPLOYEE greed. Much is said about corporate greed. It's been discussed, nonstop, for more than a century. And, sure, it exists. Of course it does. One would have to be a blind liar to claim otherwise. But...

Minimum wage continues to increase, over time, not decrease. 20 years ago, it was $3 and change per hour. Now it's, what? $8 and change? The standards of poverty have changed, over the years, too. They keep raising the threshold. Today, people in "poverty" live in air conditioned houses, and...

My reference to Walmart was only in regard to package downsizing. The rest of my previous post was addressing some of the causes of inflation. Not all of Walmarts employees are poorly paid, by the way. Truck drivers are paid very well. I would never drive for them, though. If the driver is...

Some projects are done, just to do. To see if you can do it. Not necessarily because it's the best way to go about it. Repurposing parts of a microwave to power an amp sounds interesting. Seems a good way to maintain or improve electrical skills.

Walmart started that trend. Not inflation, but the packaging downsize. They had product specially packaged for them, and a half ounce was shaved off, per unit, here; shave off an ounce there. Doesn't make much difference, per unit, but when you're buying product for resale by the acre, the...

I know that I still have my stock mic, but off the top of my head, I don't know where I stuck it, lol. You could swing by a truck stop, though, and pick up a cheap mic for testing purposes. Or, pick up a nicer one to keep on hand as a backup; spare parts and accessories are always good to keep...

Hey, 10-4, Seagiant. I'm pickin' up what your puttin' down. We're suggesting that you try the stock mic for diagnostic purposes, to see if it's something in the other mic that's causing feedback (at least, that's what I'm suggesting, anyway). I'm not suggesting that you permanently dispense...

Mike Rowe has an opinion on this: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/04/17/mike-rowe-terrified-over-united-airlines-debacle-but-for-a-reason-some-might-not-expect/ Also, I can't find it now, but Dr. Dao is on video, telling the man with the badge that he refused to leave, and then he said...

So, playing with it a little more, I find that, while sitting in my drivers seat, which brings my mic closer to my speaker (about 2 feet between the two), I was able to have mic gain set to 1, and talkback set to 14, without feed back. This time, the amp was on, though, I don't think that makes...

I'm running my 980 with an RM 203 amp and the standard truck stop, chrome Astatic mic (particular model # escapes me, at the moment; 636, maybe?). I also have an external speaker, but it's just the cheapest speaker that was available at the time that I bought it. It might be a RoadPro, or a...

Meh; I drive old vehicles. I prefer pre-80's, but tolerate pre-y2k vehicles. Radio size is not much of a concern to me. That said, however, the last time I was issued a new truck at work, I almost took a Kenworth over the Volvo that I hate so much. One of the reasons that I didn't take the...

Lmao. Just key up the mic, and sing "The Song That Never Ends" (y) I solved that problem by buying a house with no neighbors being too close. Last time that I flew anywhere, I imagine that my experience was pretty normal for the day (about 10 years ago), and I still found the experience to be...

Since you asked so nicely, done. Lol. I suppose that the advertisement was meant as parody, but his references don't really jab at any stereotypes, so I'm not sure what he was getting at. Maybe he's a surrealist.

I have a Stryker. But, it's still my Uniden 980SSB that's hooked up on my dash, while my Stryker collects dust, next to my Cobra, on the top bunk of my truck. To be fair, some golden screwdriver did monkey with the Stryker, before I got it, while the 980 has never been cracked open. My...

Yes, security WAS there at the request of the airline, but I highly doubt that the outcome that manifested was the outcome expected. Suppose you had a neighbor that was playing his music a little too loud, a little too late at night, so you call the police. And the police showed up, kicked the...

If I was reading the article correctly, wasn't the guy who was evicted from the flight actually removed by airport security, not actual UA employees? Because, if that's correct, I'd be a little more upset at the airport, than at the airline. Not to say that the airline couldn't have handled...