My Tango Mike DX Groups call sign for 11m CB radio.
26 is for England, TM is the name of the group, and 998 is unique to me, and relating to the classic Mini car’s engine size.
As I am a fan of the original classic Mini car, this is the closest I could get to a Mini related private callsign.
A little update to my Tango Mike CB callsign and the TM DX Group’s directory listing.
I moved from Lancashire to Shropshire in 2013, but, I forgot to inform the Tango Mike registrar of the move, so the directory entry for me, 26TM998 no longer reflected my QTH and so needed updating.
Today, I kindly heard back from Simon, G7UFS, that the entry has been updated.
Many thanks Simon.
Here is the Tango Mike directory listing for England.
On a Sunday, I take my son to his Taekwando lesson. Parked up waiting for Samuel, so, mobile today doing some CB for a change, what with the storm and the strong Russian stations clearer than UK ones, it was very difficult when only running 4 watts. Unfortunately, I don’t speak Russian.
I can hear Rob 59ST02 in Greece clear as a bell on channel 40, from the island of Rhodes, but, other stations just stomp on my replies! So I never got an over with him.
With a Thunderpole whip on a mag mount, a slightly off SWR of 2:1, and all this heavy rain, I was really struggling.
For next time, I will see if I can get the SWR lower, I used to achieve an SWR of 1.2:1 when I used the same antenna on a roof rack mount. Oddly, my SWR is higher with the mag mount. I would have expected the other way around.
Until next time…
73 de Mark, 26TM998
“Spark Transmitter”
EDIT: The SWR is now down to 1.2:1. It was found that there was some tarnish on the centre pin of the coax from the antenna. Overhauling both ends brought the SWR down nicely.