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I love this piece. If you watch it on Youtube, the top comment is a compliment by the original composer.

These people are great! I've heard them play Chicago songs better than Chicago did. IIRC they're Eastern European.

Funny you would mention "Twister." Back in the '90s when I was managing a radio store, a guy came in looking for an HF mobile rig to put in his stormchaser vehicle for the documentary he was producing. I tried to sell him one of the SGC setups complete with external autotuner and helical whip...

KFC and Popeyes here, but Bojangles beats them both. At the moment, my Louisiana hot sauce is just that: "Louisiana" hot sauce; the one with the red dot on the label.

Hollywood makes up stuff out of whole cloth. You simply cannot extrapolate reality based on what they portray. An example would be the movie that depicts feds tracking someone by showing a satellite above earth along with the sound of Morse code sending "CQ." I think that one was in "Enemy Of...

My Sirio GPE-27 won't cover from the bottom of 11 to the top of 10 with a low swr, but I tuned it for minimum swr at around 27.5 and it allows me to operate all of the cb channels and up to 28.500 (the upper end of the most used ssb part of 10) with a reasonable swr. I would have to retune if I...

Sirio also makes a copy of the Starduster, and it's under $100 and free shipping from Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sirio-StarDuster-M-400-26-5-30Mhz-Tunable-CB-10M-Base-Antenna/175463062 I think they're made in Italy, too. Not China.

Not personally, but I'm sure someone on here has used it.

I like the 5/8 wave Sirio. It's not gonna cover all three bands though; probably just 11M and the N-T portion of 10.

These are some of my favorites. Two of them aren't very popular among hot sauce snobs; the Texas Pete's and the El Yucateco Black Label. That's ok; I really like the smoky flavor of the Black Label on hamburgers and hot dogs among other things. As for the Texas Pete's, a lot of fans of Louisiana...

Cool. Glad to have you here.

'02 Dodge Cummins, 4x4, 6 speed manual. I hope to drive it the rest of my life.

Nope. DX range has very little to do with output power in the first place, and plus or minus 20 percent will make no discernible difference. The main things that small increase in power will do are make the finals get hot faster, and make the finals more susceptible to damage if your antenna or...

No, I'm not focusing on materials alone; I'm focusing on resistive loss which is affected by both material and diameter. I was attempting to point out that if a thinner conductor were better, commercial hardline would use thin conductors and commercial antennas would use thin elements, yet they...

Interesting that you've never seen anyone else use that logic. Ever notice how in hardline, the feedline used in commercial installations, the center conductor is made of either copper tubing or (in less expensive hardline) aluminum tubing with a copper plating? Ever notice how antenna wire is...

Without going and digging into my ARRL and RSGB radio handbooks and other books by Doug Demaw and others, I'm going on the concept that DC resistance is loss, and more DC resistance equals more loss. Stainless steel has greater DC resistance than copper, and because of skin effect a large...