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I agree, go with the correct radials made from stainless steel. Cheap all-thread will rust and seize in the antenna housing.

The originals are stainless steel. Always stinks to have delays. But... do it right, do it once.

And it takes a while for the signal to be received after it is sent. Get's longer every minute. Still, it is pretty cool that we can still communicate. I'm waiting for someone to respond on that frequency. Could be interesting.

Nope, no stars between us and Voyager. Voyager is 15 billion miles away. The nearest star (other than our sun) is 23 Trillion miles away.

Interstellar dust Asteroid fields Kuiper belt The heliosphere

But a hell many of stars.

I'm of the opinion that on 2m/70cm, anything more than 50 watts is just wasted, with perhaps a few exceptions under very unusual circumstances.

There aren't any buildings in the way.

I thought it was probably just an oversight, but I figured I'd ask if this was normal. I found an easy solution and I don't want to wait on radials. I'll probably email them anyway so I have spares.

Yeah, I figured it was probably something like that. I found an easy work-around, so I guess it's okay.

what amazes me is how far we can communicate into space.. For example Voyager 1 is some 15 billion miles into space and we are communicating with that spacecraft to and from with ease.

There is movement, international so far, to go digital voice on the VHF marine band. Then it will likely happen here sooner or later. Implementation of digital voice radio telephony in the VHF maritime mobile band.pdf

I use the Icom SP-35 speaker for my Wouxun KG-1000g and my Icom IC-2730B. You can usually find the SP-35 on Amazon for $35. They are plenty loud. The Wouxun will drive the Icom SP-35 just fine. I normally don't turn the volume up past 5 or 6 on my KG-1000G in the car. A common mistake that some make is trying to use a y adaptor plugged into both speaker ports on the KG-1000G going into 1 speaker. You get an impedance mismatch when trying to run one speaker plugged into both radio speaker ports and the sound level will very low. The only way I have found to run a single speaker is to use a dual mono to stereo y adapter AND a stereo speaker with dual speakers in the housing. A single channel speaker will not work. Now if you need something louder, there are the Midland 20 watt speakers. I have the 20 watt SPK-100 speaker on my SxS and I can hear the radio just fine while cursing down gravel roads at 35 mph. And I don't have to crank the radio volume way up either.

I was aware that you are required to monitor 16 while out on the water and why. The info of recommended channels for “chatting” was new to me. My dad had a commercial fishing boat. Sadly I get pretty sea sick so I’ve kept my boating to the bay, lakes and streams. Still I liked the info.

the good ole days.

I made a clock bit by bit using machine language. That was fun. Saved as a .com file.

Mine came with them in the bag. Maybe email them and let them know they were missing and see if they will send you new ones.

Depends if that frequency and tone are connected to a repeater that the owner doesn't want others to use.

Not when there is something like 260 combined tones and DCS codes to choose from. Absolutely no reason you need to use what someone else is using just because you can. But you do you, I really don't care.

I went from Vic-20 to C-64 and then to Apple Macintosh... been personally on Mac's ever since but also have a windows machine provided by my employer. But what I learned on the vic-20 and c-64 learning BASIC.. inspired me to love programming as well as design (and now I do both programming and design for website work)

Yep... that is the site I use.

The numbers I provided are the RF horizon. But, yes, typically the RF horizon is about 15% further than the visual horizon.

I am not interested in that at all. However, I am interested in using a frequency and tone that I have a legal right to use. That probably doesn't make sense to you.

Real ones were so much better, it never entered your mind that the ones you were playing with could have been made in 'China'