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March 18th 04, 04:20 PM

From: (MrTimNebo)
twist i'll give you the gold star for trying and

even actually talking on the bowl every now

and then with little to nothing and trust me i

mean this in the most respectfull way but your

way of talking on the bowl is the mud duck

way. when you can key down and as i said

"consistantly" take out ducks and get your

named called then your doing something.

No doubt, my man, I'm most certainly a duck on the bowl..I'm not
interested in taking anyone out, but I do understand you MUST do that to
be heard there. Check it out,,,,after all these years of channel 6 being
the channel to avoid, or tune, or set your swrs, etc,,,suddenly, I was
made aware of a way in which to be heard on the bowl. Now,,I have also
been privy to a certain man's technological savy that he is in the
process of applying to the water....this man now wants his own boat
after seeing for himself what I was running (practically nothing) and I
am shuddering at what he will accomplish,,EVENTUALLY. This man is
interested in taking his landlubber amp to the water and he is hellbent
on making it work. I can't take what he usually uses for an amp on the
boat,,..I'm not (and couldn't do it anyway) going to place that kind of
strain on my electrical system and I damn sure ain't modifying anything
to accomodate that kind of power. But one can blow a few hundred legal
watts on 10 meter if one is licensed and that few hundred watts suddenly
is reflected in power "power" (IE: 100 watts to the third, fifth,
twentieth, fiftieth power, (whatever) etc, etc,.)
Now,,,imagine what wouild happen if one devised a manner in which to
smoke multi-thousands of watts from their boat.
A visiting "vacationer" dropped anchor in Tampa Bay back in 1999 or 2000
for about a week. He had twin diesels and some kind of watts
transmitting big power. Everyone in the bay who was on the air back then
remembers this fella,,,,,when he keyed, he rendered the entire HF
spectrum useless for those of us on the peninsula. Dirty, dirty,
dirty,,,,,he left after about 4 days and things returnde to normal
(whatever that is).

and yes trust me i know all about talking on

the water, its for this reason alone my little

1200 watt dead key and 4 kw pep on AM is

known for taking out the entire houston area

from the shores of sandy galveston island.

See,,,and if you think back,,,you and I haven't made a contact since
that SSB thing a few years ago when the hurricane was in the Gulf
directly between us,..and if you remember,,we had zero conditions, not
much of signal on each other, but was able to hear each other's audio.
The band was quiet except for us...what I'm getting at,,,,is I don't
think the Gulf Coast of Fla and the Gulf coast of Texas really needs
"conditions" to make the contacts. Sheer power across unobstructed water
is damn near magical.

theres guys in the dome dunning 3cx5000

tubes and even barnaby jones with a

4cx10,000 tube and i do my McNasty with just

four 3-500z's. if i was side by side with them

boys or even a mile or two inland off the water
i wouldnt have a chance.

Exactly. That's exactly what I have been doing,,,getting up and over
some of these heavy hitters with water and not a lot (by comparison) of
power. I can even talk from the dock at times,,,,pull 50 yards or so on
to the pavement and nothing,,,zip,,nada, as far as transmit goes.

i've worked dx from shrimp boats in the gulf

running 2 pills and even bigger at times and i

know for sure that what you say about talking

on 6 from the middle of the water is bull****.

I'm not going to try and change your mind. You have an open invite at
any time. It's not bull****,,why else you think "gw" is all over me all
of a sudden? "Cause I'm in his receive and he cant stand it.

being in the middle of the water doesnt always
make for a bigger signal

Oh, yes it does. Given the parameters I cited, the water always will
increase your signal.

escpecially when you trying to talkthru land

locked guys running beams and thousands of

watts.

Tim,,,,as you said,,,if you are on the coast of Texas on the beach, or
parked with your wheels in the sal****er, I dont give a damn what poor
ass CF is running, he ain't getting in between me and you from Houston
when we are both on the water with nothing between us,,,,,assuming, of
course, we are both running SOME power.

the bowl isnt about mother nature.

Agreed, as I can get your coast any day of the week, practically. But it
sure plays a large part.

its about competing against other stations,

anybody can yell and scream long enough to

prove a point but to actually be a super star it

takes power.

No doubt. I'm no superstar and I didn't ask for this worldwide status.
KC8LDO Lelnad insisted he try his hand at Kingmaker and for some reason,
he chose me. Tim, next time I get on, I'm gonna email you,,,let your
ears be the judge, or you can always look at CF and the manner in which
he cries about my newfound joy.