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It really has nothing to do with a spine it has to do with some trust and the hope people treat you as you treat them. I have refused F/F from people and most likely will go along with someone again if it feels ok. I have just heard from him and he states he is looking into it thinking shipping...

I talked to him a few weeks ago that is why he said he was surprised also said he would look into it.....nothing. This was a in fuel cell pump which I had built the car to have. If I wanted to hang a external pump I would have not bothered to pay him the extra money. I also told him I would...

I have been a member here 10+ years and have bought and sold without issue the whole time. I even bought a '74 Scamp with PayPal just to get a good shot at it (still have it). I will buy as "friend /family" after talking to the seller although I have never requested that. Early last spring...

I bought all the short block stuff from him and he was going to do my heads which I am now about ready to do but after reading stuff here I guess I will be going with a local Mopar guy in the area who also has a good rep. Thanks all for the info, MRL will be missed!

Anyone have a way to reach mike from MRL. I know he closed but looking to throw some work his way if still doing stuff. Thanks All, Bruce

Have been pretty active here on the low bands the last few years (281 worked on 160 and 300 on 75/80) but the quality of operators and the low bands being so bad has slowed me some lately. On 65 acres here 140 ft rotating tower with kt34xa 3 stack and 3el 40. Have a 7el 6m beam at 100ft and a...

I read the Sk list every month before anything else in QST. Are you still active and what is your call? Call here is K9RO and spend most of my time on the low end of 160m,although it has been VERY slow this season. '73,Bruce

Joe you will quickly learn this is just like cars. Always figure on going bigger right away.When you upgrade you will want some type of HF ant. and at that point you will have out grown the box,so when you do the next box just double what you think you need because you will grow into that pretty...

Hi Joe, good to see you are still having fun. HRO,AES all stores like a speed shop, you love going but hate how broke you are when you get there.AES is about 25 miles from me and I try to never go because of that. My CFO (wife) has enough trouble with the cars without me going there.I just went...

Concrats Joe, Now your hooked and it's just money from now on......Keep studing for that General lic.You will find it's even more fun working the world then the guy 20m away and make some friends you will talk to for life. Have fun. '73 Bruce

This is some tower work. I am tired just watching them http://www.artifacting.com/blog/2010/09/15/climbing-a-1768-foot-transmission-tower/

Hi Joe, You will be amazed what you can work with 3 elements and 50w when the band opens. You will still work all over the country and even out of it at times if you are there at the right time during the opening. As far as Tracy and I working on 6 it would take a nice aurora opening or some...

Tracy, Make your top guys 1/4 wave slopers and switch them with an Ameritron rcs8 box. You will kill two birds with one stone,you get the tower guyed and some directivity with gain on 80m. They are only about 66ft long as slopers and you can just finish off to the guy post after the insulator...

Fishy68, Are you going to insulate the tower from grond or just put it up normal? Seventy feet with just 3 antennas might not be enough to get it to 160.6/2/7o beams are not alot of area and might not be enough top hat to get the tower to play on 160 without building some kind of match to make...

Hi Joe, nice to see all the progress. You will have fun the more you learn and the crazier you get. As far as lightning nothing beats just good old disconnecting,a big enough hit will blow though everything you are doing. Granted your work will lessen the damage but it always finds a path. I...

As 67Dart273 say you want horiz for any kind of dx/distance work on 6/2/70 and verticial for repeater and local rag chewing. The Crunchcraft ant looks kind of all inclusive but you need to call them and see if you can flip the 2/70 section to horizontal for any real advantage to spending your...

You might want to check into the vanity calls as a tech you might be able to request unused 1x3 call and there are lots of those maybe even your intials (lots of people like that for some reason) I always liked easy quick cw calls KD0NTS is a good start. I hope you have fun and work on those...

74/6 Please do not tell people it means High and Mighty it does not and enough cb;ers and swl'ers already think we look down our noses at them with out saying stuff like that. It is taken from back at the beginning of the hobby and the professional radio announcers made fun of the amateur radio...

Concrats on passing and great idea to move on to at least general right away.You can mount a multiband verticial in the yard and stick a 6/440/2 triband vertical on a 10 foot mast on the chimney with a single feed line and a triplexer in the house. The hf vertical is basically a cloud warmer but...

67DART273 I was kidding, Ramcharger said he would let us know if he passed and that was back on Saturday. I was just wondering how he did. I took my tests in Chicago 40 years ago and walked uphill 15 miles to get there and uphill 20 miles to get home :) Do you still have a licence and are you...

Still waiting to see how you did on the test. I did not know that they had stretched these tests out for 3/4 days,no wonder people hate studing for them.........Hope you did well and I hear you on 144.125 ssb or 144.090 cw whith the summer openings on 2m.

I'm using the same 2m rig here but just use it to talk to a couple long time friends. 6m will only be good lomg haul at times although we are are on a upswing in the solar cycle so 6 will get better and 10m is going to get better. I think with a tech licence you can use a small part of 10m and...

Good luck,keep at it and work on your cw the bands are more fun where the average low iq guy can not sit there and qrm everything you say. '73 Bruce K9RO

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