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A shot gun works best,,,,but skip is not in season till Dec 21st.

Ok, I've heard from my WW II airplane tech. The front post is just that, it supports the wire antenna that is HF (if equipped). The rear post houses the VHF antenna, these post are interchangeable.

Yes, you are correct. The picture in your post shows how much alike those two post are. I'm checking with a CAF friend of mine to find out about these Corsair antennas.

I was referencing to the two-way radio antenna.

No not you, the guy that was blocking the net. 7 3

Hello, AC5PS

CHILDISH

I was thinking the same thing, like a ham license is going to make you a better antenna erector. I was also wondering what happen, most likely involved electrical lines but you never know. It's always sad when someone gets killed in the line of their hobby.

Nice job ! The antenna just forward and to the right of the cockpit looks about like a 5/8 wave for 2M ha ha. Same antenna that’s on the bottom of the nose of a P-38 Lightning. BTW when the HF rigs were used the mode was CW. The P-39 Airacobra was in production before WW2 and if it had HF...

I think you will find this interesting,,,, basically 2 meters ! I'm not 100% sure about the Navy but the Army Airforces used a five channel VHF radio that weighed about 80 lbs! I think I remember reading somewhere the freq range was 130 to 150 mhz. If equipped they had HF also. Nice looking...

The Republic of Texas

Hey thanks guys, haven’t had a chance to get on the PC till now. I think I'll give it back to him and let him know it's over my head, hopefully he won't blame it on me !

A neighbor came buy wanting me to look at his CB, just says it doesn't work right. Well I got around to opening it up to see if anything was out of place, everything "looked" ok. I hooked it up to a PS, wattmeter and dummy load. Turned it on and it blew the fuse in the power cord. Replaced fuse...

See this thread http://www.worldwidedx.com/general-cb-services-discussion/36229-your-favorite-citizens-band-radio-myth-lies-legends.html

It was a VERY hot and dry year here in central Texas. I live 15 miles south of Austin and I have recorded 7.91 inches of rain this year, that's sad. Average is about 32 inches a year, also Austin had 68 days of 100 or above this year the record is 70 days back in 1920's can't remember the year...

When they first started being used in numbers I had a UHF mobile programmed with all the freqs. I heard a couple talking as they were going down the highway, I jumped in and said hello. The female said, "honey what is someone doing on our channel", I thought that was funny.

That was stupid

"they" say 2 meters and up are line of site. But from my own experience 800 mhz and above are in fact line of site.

Never turn down a volunteer, and never volunteer for anything. who said that ?

I have noticed this also about people’s knowledge of geography. I'm a retired pilot and have been to every state and many countries so I've got a pretty good handle on it. But man there are some folks here in TX that don't even know where other states are ! But then again you can poke a lot of...