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I still think there is more too it, I am sort of thinking they come up with the 20db from a dish or highly directional antenna and not a simple monopole.

There has got to be more to the "up to 20db of loss" rule for 90 degrees difference in polarization. I think they meant, up to 20db or else I dont think I would hear anything with my HT turned sideways, yet, I can still copy the signal, often with little difference, even on weak signals. I...

You ought to try talking at night, up here around high point there is often locals talking on 38 LSB. With my old (crap) setup I could hear stations up in virgina, morganton and as far south as albemarle. Now I got much better antenna, at a higher elevation off the ground with a better radio...

I agree, why buy a lesser radio than the 2950. In my opinion there is really not much better than a 2950 except an all mode HF rig.

Bouncing a signal off the F2 layer is cheating and dont count. I talked to Ireland, the UK and France barefoot from my base station. Sometimes conditions work out well enough I have talked to california on 4 watts.

I doubt it was tropo scatter, he regularly talks to the other station with beams. 50 miles between 2 base stations with beams, even barefoot is no major feat.

I think I would choose none of the above. The Uniden 980 looks really cool, but its empty. Power is weak, final is weak, and there is no way as of yet to expand the frequency coverage. It does have lots of buttons, menus, etc and is pure eye candy. Some day in the future, someone will...

I talked 45 miles today on SSB with strong signals in both directions, and then 30 miles the other direction but could barely copy. That was running mobile with a 200 watts, and a 3' base loaded antenna. Atmospheric conditions were near dead, made contact with a station in Cali but he wasnt...

Good find, $30 is a good deal if it works, and not too bad if its a project. I wonder if turning up ALC will do it any good?

after reading a bunch of CB publications and manuals I learned VSWR > 2 is kind of normal due to all the crap and harmonics they try to put out. I decided to just roll with it for now, not much crap is going to make it past the antenna, and what does, well, be glad TV has gone digital

I agree. The only open clarifier I would have says RIT and XIT

I am sick of turning screws in tight spaces, so I am going to try to find some cheap airsoft grade M1913 rails to attach radios in my vehicles. Cool idea?

i might check it out sometime. I have been listening for years for unauthorized transmissions on shortwave, "echo-charlie" they call it, and have found none (outside of 11 meter freeband). 13 sounds kind of pointless, just another sunspot propagation band, better than 11 meters but not much.

you sure it wasnt 13 centiMETERS ?

http://www.worldwidedx.com/general-cb-services-discussion/15874-channel-mods-trc-485-radio-shack-unit.html The Defpoms Radio Shack TRC-485 / Dragon TRC-485 Mods

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the TRC-485 was the same chassis as alot of 10 meter/export radios, most like a Magnum 257 but also the (almost)unmodifiable HTX-10. The 485 CB radio is well known for being easily modified for freeband and 10 meter ham. CPU controlled, SMT?, freq display, etc. The 465 and 485 are different...

these radios are terrible. let me trade you for a Cobra 25 LTD so I can use it for parts.

not necessarily, and most manufactures sell an antenna as good for both. I think it has to do with if they market an antenna with bandwidth greater than 500khz and power handling capacity greater than 4 watts as a CB antenna, then that makes it unsuitable for 10 meters.

Why do I always hear the black gentlemen on channel 6 when conditions seem dead on every other channel. For 4 years I have been running CB radios and hardly a day goes by that he aint there, talking to himself in mostly gibberish or bragging bout his amplifier. How come 10 meters is dead...