spacellamaman
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So to all you cheapskates on here, take notice, your King is dead!
Going through my garbage bags of Radio-Shack-closing-booty, I found myself realizing I am probably good up through Y3K before I have to buy a Remtronix. Assuming a loss thru attrition of one a year...
I have always been amazed at the performance of these suckers in waayyy out of designed ranges and have at various times tried to discern the special sauce without risking destroying one. They cost big-bucks ya know. Knowing I am in good shape down in the bunker in that regard, I gave it one more shot with Google last night, and the closest relevant result, was a post i made on here:
four years ago.... I knew the Time Had Come!
So! Out came the snips, pliers, Exacto knives and box cutters! After 20 minutes of work, there was a brief intermission, for alcohol. And bandaids. And then a Dremel.
Anyhoo....I just got done taking pics of a BUCK NAKED Radio Shack 800 mhz antenna. Since I hate killing time transfering/uploading stuff on my slow connection/computer, only to be flamed by everyones brother, (and due to the fact that odds are real good this has been done a thousand times before, and with pics posted, I just managed to never find them) I am going to allow a brief period for yays, nays, and most importantly, to allow the usual suspects get their "whaddaya do that for stupid?", "OLD" and "i did that back in 1978" outta the way.
After which I will post the pictures, cause i've had a hair up my...for years now, and i was gonna tear that baby apart no matter what
Going through my garbage bags of Radio-Shack-closing-booty, I found myself realizing I am probably good up through Y3K before I have to buy a Remtronix. Assuming a loss thru attrition of one a year...
I have always been amazed at the performance of these suckers in waayyy out of designed ranges and have at various times tried to discern the special sauce without risking destroying one. They cost big-bucks ya know. Knowing I am in good shape down in the bunker in that regard, I gave it one more shot with Google last night, and the closest relevant result, was a post i made on here:
How well will the Radio Shack 800 MHz antenna perform on 900?
I just bought a Pro-91 and am interested in scanning the 902-928 band, would the RS 800 MHz handheld scanner antenna still yield decent performance here or should I just stick to the all-purpose duck included on the scanner?
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four years ago.... I knew the Time Had Come!
So! Out came the snips, pliers, Exacto knives and box cutters! After 20 minutes of work, there was a brief intermission, for alcohol. And bandaids. And then a Dremel.
Anyhoo....I just got done taking pics of a BUCK NAKED Radio Shack 800 mhz antenna. Since I hate killing time transfering/uploading stuff on my slow connection/computer, only to be flamed by everyones brother, (and due to the fact that odds are real good this has been done a thousand times before, and with pics posted, I just managed to never find them) I am going to allow a brief period for yays, nays, and most importantly, to allow the usual suspects get their "whaddaya do that for stupid?", "OLD" and "i did that back in 1978" outta the way.
After which I will post the pictures, cause i've had a hair up my...for years now, and i was gonna tear that baby apart no matter what