Made a life changine decision..........

Sorry to hear that Del but it comes a day when you feel like you have to make a decision. How tall is your tower and which one is it? I'm getting to replace my old tv tower with a new 70' Rohn 45. Health reasons (mainly back pain) have held me up or it would have been up 2-3 yrs ago. I hear ya on what you hear on the bands. As far as the comment of the "first personal" it seems the cb'ers that have gotten their license think everyone talks that way. I was a cb'er too but got my ticket in 2000 and for the first month or 2 just listened so I wouldn't make the same embarrassing mistakes others did. But you know sometimes ya just gotta not sweat the little things. I don't have a HF beam going up. The old trusty dipole and Dentron super tuner has done me real good. I have my first home brew project beam going up on the bottom (6m 6ele on a 20' boom. have worked all the lower 48 with it) a Telrex 1528 and a Cushcraft 729B. As you might tell I'm more of a VHF'er.