Did you ever make a radio contact to Belize?

[humanearth]

I just made two contacts from Belize V31TX and V31XX on 10 meters.

My radio is from 1990s a Yaesu FT 890

See you don't need a brand new radio to do this

It maybe old, but it sure works like a new radio

[Likes2drive]

No but that’s so close to the CB band and before I got my license I was talking to someone in New Zealand a few times during high sunspot activity near the 10 meter band, maybe we are in that cycle since it’s hard to do that on 10 Meters back when I was using it. Congratulations on the contact there , good thing they speak English as their native language in that Central American country

[humanearth]

Do you still have this radio, I still have mine. I'm thinking about playing with it again

www.worldwidedx.com/.../

[humanearth]

It's a picture of the President Lincoln HR 2510

[Likes2drive]

Yeah I do, I have 3 different ones, one modified for CB , one not modified and the 2600 export

[Guy13]

Cool 😎. Everyone is going to be at your house when the 💩 hits the fan !!

[humanearth]

Very doubtful

[Guy13]

Alright but still you'll be about the only one who can communicate with gas powered generator fueling electric to the Morris Code radio type gig.

[Surely]

I have the license but not the equipment yet.

[Redstang88]

Why?
But no, these fuckin ICOMs we use barely work across the harbour most days

[Jamie05rhs]

That doesn't even look old! I can't be older than, like, 15 years.

[Jamie05rhs]

Oh, okay. 1990s. I was off by a few years.

[dudeinohio]

On a xiegu g90 I made Belize on ft8 on 80 meters.

[humanearth]

How is that radio? I seen one at a swap meet for a low price, but walked away because I know nothing about them.

I mainly run Yaesu for a modern radio. If I want to run my really old stuff, Then I would be my use my old tube gear like my Johnson Viking Valiant II or Hammarlund HX-50/50A

I am big fan of vacuum tube radios

[dudeinohio]

It's all right for a 20w rig. Amazing built in tuner.

[exitseven]

No, but it sounds very cool to do it.

[douride2]

Can't say I ever have.

[Iron_Man]

Nope