Sir_Oblivion wrote:
It's been ages but thinking back how I used to work RC channels and 22A with
a slip of the channel knob. What was the first real rig you owed that was
totally non-Part95 Accepted? Me guess it was my Browning Mark II but also
had a Hygain V with matching VFO; anybody remember them? Another was a SBE
Consol II with some monstrosity of a crystal box mounted atop the cabinet.



I fixed a DAK Mark IIIa mobile to have extra channels years ago.

Now I have an original 2950. Waiting for CW to go bye-bye. I'll
go pass element 3 again. Anybody get some of that skip Friday
night/Saturday morning about 2AM EDT. That was some rocking
skip. I was hitting all the "M" states on AM and SSB in the
mobile with a 2x455 box on low and a stock TRC-451 (Cobra 146)
with a non-amplified 636L and a 7 foot KW-7 Firestik with 7
feet of coax and a 1.7:1 SWR. It hasn't been touched or checked
since I got my ham ticket in May 2003. Nothing like DX, on any band.

I have the QSL card proving a 192 mile VHF-FM simplex contact!
For local contacts, 2 meter FM beats 11 meters. For actual skip,
11 meters is wild, especially on SSB. After 25+ years on radio,
I'm ready for some 10 meter action. It should be similar to 11.