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  1. Road Squawker

    Homemade antenna Issue High SWR

    Those numbers are pretty close. MFJ rates their tuners the same way the FCC used to rate legal power : by input power to the exciter. Antennas used to be rated this way too. Every MFJ tuner manual
  2. Road Squawker

    Now to post a pic in the chat room

    OhNooooo! The big red X
  3. Road Squawker

    Morse

    Oh My,.............. just wait 'til this gets posted on da ZED. I can hear some of the dum comments already
  4. Road Squawker

    A new to me antenna

    And a 4.75 dBi gain, but It will never outperform a Texas Bugcatcher.
  5. Road Squawker

    11 meters sucks at times

    Well, Heck. Perhaps he was just loading up his driver. ..................................Jus Sayin
  6. Road Squawker

    CB BANDPASS Filter?

    Heck, just use a cardboard tube from a roll of Christmas wrapping paper , stuff it with steel wool and run your coax thru it. 10-4?
  7. Road Squawker

    Fcc seeks public feedback

    Say the "wrong" thing on most of social media,... and you get banned. OTOH, on some you can say anything as long as it meets the political agenda of the owner.
  8. Road Squawker

    Ranger made Cobra 148?

    I used to work for the company that invented microfiche. Later they invented the CD laser disc. I worked in the "legacy" area, the "glass room" where I made CRT guns and inserted them into the tubes, gettered them, ect on a glass lathe. Most of that stuff was MilSpec and is still in use today
  9. Road Squawker

    Scanner for 11-Meter

    I was gonna suggest putting a dummy load on a switch for "local" stuff
  10. Road Squawker

    hf radio app

    There are many more KiWi webSDR's than just the K3FEF. kiwisdr.com/public/ have fun
  11. Road Squawker

    Safest way to Buy, Sell, or Trade?

    Me too, but if some one shows up with a first post and is selling something, I steer clear.
  12. Road Squawker

    FT-920 Updated TX mod for 5 Mhz/ 60 m band.

    "cut the green wire"....................... OMG!!!!!
  13. Road Squawker

    parallel coax lines, bad idea?

    coax by definition, has a center conductor that is shielded by braid
  14. Road Squawker

    Icom 705 Tuner

    Price............... TBA(n)
  15. Road Squawker

    Need Help please!!

    does the meter deflect when you put it in CALibrate?
  16. Road Squawker

    Stupid things seen or heard at a CB shop

    see post #3 https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/anybody-on-here-run-a-high-power-5kw-suburban-i-need-some-advice.258518/unread
  17. Road Squawker

    Am I asking for trouble?

    Perhaps I don't understand the question. White PVC is transparent to RF Grey and black PVC has bits of metal mixed inside and will affect your Tx/Rx.
  18. Road Squawker

    Time for change

    There used to be one, I think one of the forum upgrades had a clash with it. https://www.worldwidedx.com/callsign/
  19. Road Squawker

    Technician HF

    Bottom line this is nothing except the previous weak arrl ideas that were not passed into the cfr...... and the real reason in to give the Winstink people a section of every band, that only they can use?...remember the no one owns a frequency regulations.... this proposal from the arrl does...
  20. Road Squawker

    Walmart's are going cashless!

    ... and its hard (but not impossible) to pay for something "under the table".