Triple 3 Posted October 28, 2022 Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 Hi everyone! I entered into the exciting adventure of CB radio in the 1970's. We had a 200 ft. redwood tree in our front yard about 12 ft. from our front door. I had contests who could climb the tree to the top the fastest [I do NOT recommend you follow our poor example]. I installed an 11 meter ground plane on top of this redwood tree attached to my TRC-457. On quiet nights, we could talk from Lake Tahoe to Monterey and many cities in-between. During summer months New Zealand and Australian sheep shepherds would coming boom in 20+ even though they only had 1.5 watt walkie-talkies. No wonder, the mean sun spot average during the 1979 peak was 264 sun spots per month. Oh, we also installed a Avanti PDL-2, so that helped too! For my mobile back then I used an SBE Sidewinder SSB radio with a 300 watt foot warmer and a K-40 antenna on top of a 1968 Volkswagen Beetle. Presently I live in the central valley part of California. Unfortunately, we were not able to bring the 200 ft. redwood tree with us...😂 Now we are looking to move to Idaho where I hope to build our dream ranch and build a dream radio station too. Skip and propagation is moving toward a new peak in 2022. I have experienced some wild skip all within a 24 hour period: Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, Japan, Panama, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a host of upper northern states. I am hoping the next two years [2023-24] will be as wild as the 1970's. 73's and God bless to all! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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