Along with metal detecting #1 Hobby

fistfulladirt said:
Coin roll hunting, old cars, building base station HAM/CB antennas, sausage making, gardening, to name a few.
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fistfulladirt said:
Coin roll hunting, old cars, building base station HAM/CB antennas, sausage making, gardening, to name a few.
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I just picked-up a pair of Browning Golden Eagle mark 3 radios, what would you recommend for an antenna?
I just have a car CB radio antenna to see if they worked and they do T&R.
 

I remember the 67 World Series, Boston & St. Louis.
we were all rooting for the Yaz, & Lonborg almost pulled it off.
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They could have pulled it off if they had Tony C for that series. That was a huge loss for them.

I didn't start following baseball until 1969, so I missed out on that World Series. I did watch the '75 WS against the Reds. They would have won that one if they hadn't lost Jim Rice to a broken wrist in September. The Red Sox never had any good luck back in those days...
 

DizzyDigger said:
Damn...I'm one boring SOB....:laughing7:

Currently, I'm a full-time caregiver for my wife. In my spare time I hang out here on TNet, and am in the top 5% worldwide in tournament solitaire.

In the years past:

Gold prospecting
Primitive bowhunting and archery
Longline trapper
Taught many predator hunting seminars
Steelhead and Salmon fishing
Bookseller and Collector
Indoor gardening (yes, I grew great weed)
Astronomy and Cosmology
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I do the same as you I am my wife's in home care giver, since April 1,2019 my wife was hit by a hit and run driver while she was walking and life took a turn for the worse, prior to that date I had several hobbies which included Metal Detecting, Building Gourd Banjo's, playing Banjo, and all kinds of wood working, I would cut slabs of wood out of down trees using a Alaskan Sawmill then turn the slabs into tables

Photos below are one of the Gourd Banjos I built and two of the Tables I built, the neck of the banjo I hand carved
 

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detectorcowboy said:
I just picked-up a pair of Browning Golden Eagle mark 3 radios, what would you recommend for an antenna?
I just have a car CB radio antenna to see if they worked and they do T&R.
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The Maco V5000 is a great base antenna, A99 is another. I built a simple ā€˜dipoleā€™ antenna before I bought a commercial unit (Sirio Gainmaster) for less than $5 and got out locally to about 20 miles and 1,000 miles talking skip. Get an SWR meter ($25) to tune the antenna before transmitting.
 

fistfulladirt said:
The Maco V5000 is a great base antenna, A99 is another. I built a simple ā€˜dipoleā€™ antenna before I bought a commercial unit (Sirio Gainmaster) for less than $5 and got out locally to about 20 miles and 1,000 miles talking skip. Get an SWR meter ($25) to tune the antenna before transmitting.
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Wow...talk about memories...8-)

About 45 years ago I was big into the CB thing (I was 15/16) and built my first base station out of a Cobra 138 that I had added additional crystals to. Disassembled it, and built it into an empty wood stereo case. Only problem was the damn 12v power supplies kept burning up.

Put a PDL Quad up on the roof, and had chats with folks all over the planet (when the skip was in).

Ran a Cobra 29 LTD Classic in the big truck (still got it), but have no interest in listening to all that racket anymore.:violent1:
 

DizzyDigger said:
Wow...talk about memories...8-)

About 45 years ago I was big into the CB thing (I was 15/16) and built my first base station out of a Cobra 138 that I had added additional crystals to. Disassembled it, and built it into an empty wood stereo case. Only problem was the damn 12v power supplies kept burning up.

Put a PDL Quad up on the roof, and had chats with folks all over the planet (when the skip was in).

Ran a Cobra 29 LTD Classic in the big truck (still got it), but have no interest in listening to all that racket anymore.:violent1:
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LOL, I remember the CB days, I was on the road driving all over midwest and west coast, no cell phones back then, CBs were very useful.
 

DizzyDigger said:
Wow...talk about memories...8-)

About 45 years ago I was big into the CB thing (I was 15/16) and built my first base station out of a Cobra 138 that I had added additional crystals to. Disassembled it, and built it into an empty wood stereo case. Only problem was the damn 12v power supplies kept burning up.

Put a PDL Quad up on the roof, and had chats with folks all over the planet (when the skip was in).

Ran a Cobra 29 LTD Classic in the big truck (still got it), but have no interest in listening to all that racket anymore.:violent1:
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Hey Dizzy I also set up a base station when I was a teen back in the late 1970ā€™s, big 3 element Yagi that I strapped to the chimney of my folkā€™s house, several of my buddies also had radios and weā€™d yack at each other ā€˜till late at nite. Nowadays, I mess around with big antennas and micro power to try and see how far I can get out.
 

Native American artifact hunting
Yodeling
Harmonica playing
Gardening
Rock polishing
Die cast collecting
Cooking
Making super-hot salsas and sauces
Reading
Whittling (a few from this week shown)
Helping people (if thatā€™s a hobby)
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Blackfoot58 said:
Native American artifact hunting
Yodeling
Harmonica playing
Gardening
Rock polishing
Die cast collecting
Cooking
Making super-hot salsas and sauces
Reading
Whittling (a few from this week shown)
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I have noticed that some of us have a lot in common! It may be the time period or just our ages? Blackfoot yodels, that's cool! I only yodel when I'm in great PAIN !
 

Blackfoot58 said:
Native American artifact hunting
Yodeling
Harmonica playing
Gardening
Rock polishing
Die cast collecting
Cooking
Making super-hot salsas and sauces
Reading
Whittling (a few from this week shown)
Helping people (if thatā€™s a hobby)View attachment 2127900
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I like your wood art.
 

It used to be Astronomy ( variable star observing) and also ATM ( Amateur Telescope Making).

Besides metal detecting, it is preserving artifacts and displaying them around the house.

As i still work full time at 66 and will for another 10 years minimum, I havenā€™t time for additional hobbies, but plenty of things interest me enough to become hobbies given the opportunity.
 

relicmeister said:
It used to be Astronomy ( variable star observing) and also ATM ( Amateur Telescope Making).

Besides metal detecting, it is preserving artifacts and displaying them around the house.

As i still work full time at 66 and will for another 10 years minimum, I havenā€™t time for additional hobbies, but plenty of things interest me enough to become hobbies given the opportunity.
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I was into astronomy too. Then I found Paleontology in college....now its metal detecting!
 

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