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I thought I ought to pop in and introduce myself. I was a CBer back in the AM days, around 1978 to 81, then went over to the legal FM. It was totally taken over by wallies, so I packed it in, in about 1989. In 1991 I took the RAE and became a licenced ham. I stayed active on the ham bands until 2006, when I blew up my mobile rig and my base rig within a couple of weeks of each other. I remained inactive until just before Christmas when I decided to have a go at fixing my mates Midland 38 rig. He had blown the RF output transistor, so I ordered a new one, fitted it and brought it back to life. To test it, after trying it into a dummy load via the SWR Meter, I got an old Shakespear 1/4 wave that was lurking in the garage and tuned it against a four wire groundplane on top of the 6 ft trellis in the garden. It worked and over a couple of days i've renewed some old CB friendships. I now have the Shakespear on top of my Tennamast, which I didn't take down as I knew the radio bug would bite again at some point, so here I am, thanks to Colins duff radio.

BTW, my mates radio is now back in his car and working a treat, now we have sorted out his antenna and coax problems.
I now have the itch to get my ham gear repaired and get back on the bands but I will also be active on the CB.

Sorry for the long waffle. I'm like this on air as well.
Cheers
Phil

hi and welcome the more wafflers the better we have been looking for some one to set the standard for quite a while now so you are very welcome to show how its done

Welcome to the Thunderpole forum

Andy

Thanks

hi from me

Welcome to the forum and nice to have you here

Regards
Simon