RE: secret CB antenna Get a ham license

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (bernd@texas.net)
Date: Sun Jun 18 2000 - 19:17:08 EDT


Ah yes...the legalities.

But it's much more fun with a tweaked CB and a "heater". ;)

- Bernd

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of jim miller
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 5:33 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: secret CB antenna Get a ham license

> Had a guy that worked with my dadthat was into high power CB.
> a custom antennae that we designed that would make NASA jealous. On max
> output, when he keyed the mic the truck would die from the RF interference
> from the output. Not blowing smoke, or making this up, but he's talked to
> people from as far away as Australia.
> Mike Schwall
> mschwall@flash.net
>
> A REAL radio license for ham radio is easy to obtain now and you can talk
all
> over the world without danger of winding up in Leavenworth! I can and do
> talk daily to many European countries as well as all my friends in most
all
> states from my Dak and my 100 watt Kenwood radio (no larger than many CBs)
> only needs about 18 ampers at 12 volts and will run on any veichle
electrical
> system easily. I talk daily to a friend in Mississippi from Texas and he
is
> driving a GEO Metro with a stock electrical system.

Jim in Waco
99 R/T RC FR
WB5OXQ



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