Re: Today is Left Hander day

Aug 17, 2026 Last reply: 1 month ago 5 Replies

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rbowman 1 month ago

Back in the day a CB radio 108" whip would handle it, and still will.

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That would work but I don't have a CB anymore, just a 2M Yaesu and that wouldn't be much help.

I knew a ham in Ajo AZ that had a similar antenna. He wasn't positive but he hit something big and airborne with the antenna coming back from Lukeville at night and figured it was an owl. If it ain't the javelinas in the road it's the damn owls doing death from above.

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cranberry transformer 1 month ago

Much shorter whip, true.

Carolina bug catcher?

The capacitor hats on those are interesting.

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rbowman 1 month ago

That URL is returning an error at the moment but that that might be it. It wasn't a straight whip because whatever night bird hit it did some damage to the antenna.

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Bryan Simmons 1 month ago

One of these years, I have a big job to do. After The Bonobos broke up (2009), I quit using my amplifiers. Now, I have several amplifiers that need their filter caps replaced. Two Fender PA-135s and one PA-100 heads, a Music Man 210 Seventy-Five that was my main amp, and a little

10W thingie, plus the organ in the living room. I can't really sell any of them until I fix them. Those PA heads are monsters. Back around 2005, my bandmates were so sick of lugging those things that they bought a 900W solid state PA head. We ended up using that for monitors because the Fenders put out so much more volume. The pair of 135s would easily fill a venue the size of a high school gym. The PA-100 has plenty of oomph to power two 4x12 guitar cabs, or better yet, be used as a bass amp.

--Bryan https://www.instagram.com/bryangsimmons/ For your safety and protection, this sig. has been thoroughly tested on laboratory animals. "Most of the food described here is nauseating. We're just too courteous to say so." -- Cindy Hamilton

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