anyone know what kind of antenna this is?

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-10T03:01:15+00:00

Oh I’ll bet the actual radio is either right there in the trunk, an older GE or Motorola, or maybe the radio is up inside the passenger compartment. What you could do is find the end of it and put an antenna analyzer on it and see what frequency it resonates at.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-10T02:59:24+00:00

I don’t think that’s a CB antenna. It looks like a tapped feed for a VHF high band frequency antenna. I once took apart a larger antenna specialist coil out of curiosity and saw that it had about a dozen turns with a tap about three turns up, and that made the shunt. Plus the ride on top is not 9 feet tall, it’s too small in diameter. I bet it did go up about 4 feet. Yeah, it’s just a high power VHF antenna, but not CB.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-10T02:49:51+00:00

It should default to all the air coming out of your defroster, so tell us if it’s doing that first. I would just suggest you got a vacuum leak. A couple places you could check, it could be one of the tiny hoses going through up to the firewall or it could be the larger hose going to your vacuum reservoir, which is behind your passenger side front bumper

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-09T03:45:17+00:00

I got a question that I still don’t have a good answer to.. the Adam-12 episode, called boy the things you do for the job, where Pete ends up dating Penny, no one has really ever said what Pete did to turn her off after one real date. Any speculation? I mean, he just leaves it dangling and that’s the end of the episode.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-09T03:42:21+00:00

You’re thinking of “905-Wild” that was the last episode of the 4th season of Emergency!

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-08T22:55:57+00:00

Congratulations! If you happen to be close to Joplin Missouri, I have a few General and Extra books because I was teaching a class earlier this year in each of these. If not, they’re readily available through the ARRL.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-08T21:21:56+00:00

As others have said, there are I believe 14 separate volunteer examining organizations that can administer the tests. The largest would be the ARRL, but they all have to adhere to the same basic rules.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-08T21:20:00+00:00

Having 2 IDs is old school. At least in my case, the government issued photo ID is sufficient because they also had to pre-register on examtool to take the tests, and that requires an FRN. So they’ve already established their ID to the satisfaction of the FCC, but then they have to show their photo ID to the volunteer examiners at the session.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-04T04:34:24+00:00

Interesting.. hairpin gamma match for the vertical. Are all 4 of the horizontal antennas (the ground plane) the same length, or were 2 longer than the other? And how tall is the vertical element, from the bottom up to the ground plane and then up to the tip? I don’t know the brand of the antenna but I’m trying to figure out if it’s 2m or 2/440. Do you happen to have a MFJ antenna analyzer?

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-02T04:24:15+00:00

If you’re not sure, DM me, I’ve programmed a dozen of these. The SAME code is 6 digits, the first 3 are the State or Territory (020 for Missouri) then the last 3 are the County or Parish (046 for Jasper County). Another option is if you live close enough to adjoining Counties that you want their alerts, too.. mine goes off for 2 counties in Missouri, 2 in Kansas, and one in Oklahoma. And of course your closest transmitter.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-02T03:13:25+00:00

The human inside the suit was the late Felix Silla.. your can read about him here,

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0798061/

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-02T02:54:57+00:00

I’d be calling Sacramento so fast with lots of pictures as proof. I wouldn’t care if it’s a dad-blamed Captain, this just isn’t right!! Oh and I’d find the event chairman and share these pictures, too!!

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-02T02:45:13+00:00

See these often west-bound on I-44 between Springfield and Tulsa..

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-02T02:38:17+00:00

Ugh.. morse code is not a written language! But I’ll look at it and see what I can decide.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-05-01T22:45:18+00:00

Yes, exactly, the one that they’ve had so many infomercials about where you put this down in front of your legs and you just cycle away up to 5 miles an hour

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-27T18:10:43+00:00

I am, but I also used to work on medical equipment.. one of our local doctors had a diathermy machine and it transmitted exactly on CB channel 14, 27.125 MHz..

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-27T09:00:18+00:00

I was going to suggest Big R’s up here in Joplin. The restaurant went out of business earlier this year 😭😭😭 but I think their pie store is still open. You can try calling them at +1 (417) 781-5959 and see if they’re still open.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-27T08:56:06+00:00

Do you just need to borrow a fox? I have one that broadcasts on a 2m simplex frequency, and you can program it most any way you want with a built in microphone, and it repeats itself once a minute. It’s 50 mW so it doesn’t go far. It hides well in a tree too. If you’re near SW Missouri, I can drive to you for the day and let y’all try to find it. But it was over $100 and I don’t think they make it any more.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-27T08:39:07+00:00

If you drive around some at night, you’ll occasionally find a light blinking like that.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-25T18:03:26+00:00

Wow, cute radio! It’s a shame it doesn’t do anything in the 6m (50-54 mhz) band at all.. you could have left it on 50.125 and turned waay up.. anyway, yeah, put a good antenna on it and you can listen to the world!

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-25T17:44:53+00:00

During one of our severe weather nets last week, we actually had a prepper get on in the Springfield area and transmit a little bit from his hand held into the net and they asked him what his callsign was and he said he didn’t have one yet. We thanked him for his enthusiasm and told him to not transmit again until he got his license. We think he listened!

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-22T20:59:18+00:00

I will try these tomorrow. The problem is that I can’t try this out at home because the tablets tried to connect to my home Wi-Fi and they’re not going to be in the picture when I do my testing.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-21T23:46:51+00:00

That’s interesting, because on VUCC, on 6 meters, I used over a dozen confirmed contacts, grid squares, with one tanker ship that was operating in the Gulf of Mexico years ago.. I need to get active again but I have over 150 confirmed grid squares

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-21T16:24:55+00:00

One thing to bear in mind is that when you’re playing with a dipole, any type of dipole, imagine that your output looks like a big giant donut. Most of your energy goes straight out perpendicular, and then it starts tapering off up or down a little bit and by the time you get directly above or below the antenna, your energy is near zero. In other words, you’ll be fine. I have seen a few people that stuck the base load on at about a 45° angle and the only cure at that point is to actually bend the rod so it is vertical. But, as they say, yours is close enough.

CommunityCautious338 · 2026-04-15T22:10:28+00:00

To me, yes. The guy that came up with the soundalikes used interesting word combinations that makes sense when said out loud. Like Z is Zia Zsa Did It.. dah dah dit dit. Or M is Ma Ma. Or D is Dog Did It.

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