Finally on HF
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Don't forget to try 6m, it's called "The Magic Band" for a reason.
Don't forget to try 6m, it's called "The Magic Band" for a reason.
Glad to see you're having a good time. As krokus said, play around on six meters if you can. The band opening days are just around the corner!
Well Doc ya sure got that right! To borrow a lyric from Jimmy Buffett:
Its these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same.
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane.
Amateur Radio is a can of mixed nuts, eat what you like and leave the rest for somebody else.
Its these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same.
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane.
Amateur Radio is a can of mixed nuts, eat what you like and leave the rest for somebody else.
HF = horrible frequencies!
220mhz. on up rules!
LOL...
It's hard for me to develop a preference. That's why I'm active from 160 meters to 24 GHz. I love it all.
How do you like the 746? Ive been looking at them for about the last 5 years. Have a Kenwood 570 s now.
campeck
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Well I am only just learning it. I haven't even read the manual yet. lol
CalebATC
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They all have there fun parts and disadvantages... HF for DX, VHF-SHF for experimenting.... which can lead to more fun than HF!
I agree.... they are all fun, it's just how you take interest in what the band has to offer, and what your doing (FM, SSB, CW, data, digtal voice, etc)
Tape a dipole to the ceiling then, it works. Or a hamstick on the vehicle and use that. I used a dipole taped to the ceiling of an unused room in the house to make quite a few psk31 contacts on 20M and had a QSO with a guy in FL that was using a hamstick that was mounted on his work truck, and I had a few DX contacts using that same dipole on 20 at about 20-25 watts
N1BHH
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The last apartment I lived in didn't have any trees at all to hang anything, but I did get on HF with 60 feet of wire and the first contact I made was Iceland on 17meters CW, The wire was only 10 feet or so off the ground strung between windows at the front and back of the apartment. During a wind storm I could hear the wire slapping the side of the building. I got on 40, 20 and 10 with the same wire, fed with a short length of twin lead through an MFJ 945C. it worked for me.
Now my new place has trees and I built and installed an OCF with the feed point at almost 50 feet and get on 80-10 and have a blast. A G5RV is really not a great antenna, only works real good on 20 meters. I had one many years ago and mine worked very well because I had the feed line, RG6 double braid coax, buried in the ground and the flat top was at about 50 feet and it's length was modified a little bit (longer) and worked great. People who just put up the antenna they buy are not getting as good as they could get when you build one yourself.
You can do anything, you can hang a wire out the window and it will work.
Now my new place has trees and I built and installed an OCF with the feed point at almost 50 feet and get on 80-10 and have a blast. A G5RV is really not a great antenna, only works real good on 20 meters. I had one many years ago and mine worked very well because I had the feed line, RG6 double braid coax, buried in the ground and the flat top was at about 50 feet and it's length was modified a little bit (longer) and worked great. People who just put up the antenna they buy are not getting as good as they could get when you build one yourself.
You can do anything, you can hang a wire out the window and it will work.
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Then run HF mobile. It's a blast!
NML-21
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Campeck, try running your antenna NNE to SSW and try that if you can.....
as far as those saying they can't run any type of an antenna in an apartment, obviously have not been around ham that long. Look at the MFJ 1622. 40M-10M + 6M and 2M.
as far as those saying they can't run any type of an antenna in an apartment, obviously have not been around ham that long. Look at the MFJ 1622. 40M-10M + 6M and 2M.
campeck
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Ok I hit a station in S africa last night. My antenna points right at him so That is weird. DXatlas doesn't want to show me long path propagation. What program will show me if my signal going south west would come up on africa?
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