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Friend of mine that was a long time 747 captain, said they used to dial WBAP up in the ADF once they climbed past 15K feet on their way back from Honolulu.

XERF and Wolfman Jack.....

Called tropospheric ducting. Happens in the VHF and UHF bands and can be one direction only or multiple. We had a great roundtable going between repeaters in Fort Worth, Greenville Mississippi and Central Florida. We could all hit and open each other's repeaters with 40 watts or less. There...

Could do an ADS-B for the house.... maybe some inspiration here: https://experimentalavionics.com/

Wife has RLS and it will, at times, start causing her to move while still asleep. Once it cranks up, she's wide awake til it quits.

Look up RLS....Restless Legs Syndrome.

Ours get calibrated on a yearly basis, unless it is dropped. Then it gets tagged and sent off immediately to the cal lab.

Not possible for a single one to cover the entire range you will need. You will find that you need from under 10 pound/inches to nearly 200 pound/feet if you work on much stuff.

Skip: Be sure you are getting material from either a US or European mill. There's been lots of people that have had problems with thin wall 4130 from the far east or unknown mills.

A stick is going to be 20 to 24 feet in length. Best bet is simply order it and make a weekend run to Aircraft Spruce East in Peachtree, Ga and pick it up. For UPS, it would have to be cut into sections under 8 feet in length.

At some point there was an antenna upgrade. Current antenna for it is a SRA-20A, and about 25$ at several places. You could also convert to almost any aircraft band antenna if you are not using it as a portable.

Go up 1 length and add a .016" washer, or keep the current length and drop the washer thickness by .016". A third option is to change to a low profile castle nut. There are a few cases where engineering says exceed the maximum design torque to obtain the ability to insert a cotter pin, but...

Graphite based lubricants have a problem in unconditioned air. They will absorb slight amounts of water, tend to clump and will hold any dirt that gets to them. Additionally, under the right conditions and against the right materials, graphite acts as an abrasive. On the F-16, the only thing...

Need to run thru the throttle control system as well nad make sure it's rigged correctly.

For some reason, almost every Citation 1 photo I could find, had the fuselage in a cream or white, with the exception of these two: https://www.airliners.net/photo/KLM-Luchtvaartschool/Cessna-500-Citation/192331/L...