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i am going to put a tv ant on my 100ft tower
Richard Clark wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:45:01 -0700, "Sal M. Onella" wrote: "Bill" wrote in message ... snip I lived in Chicago in 1962-63 and DX'ed channel 2 in Miami at 5:30 A.M. in the winter. Sometimes it pays off and sometimes not. That was back in the days of test signals, many with the Indian, and I took snapshots of the screen with my camera. No VCR's back then either. I never did that well. Late night Buffalo NY received in Norfolk VA was my best (1969). The picture was good enough a bunch of us sat around and watched the movie! Norfolk was an interesting location -- just a few local stations in those days, so it was good for DX. I was at sea level, but I had a 50-foot mast and no surrounding obstacles. Channel 5 was funny. With the antenna aimed approx northeast, we got Channel 5 from Washington DC. Then, without changing the channel, we rotated CCW and got Channel 5 in Washington again, but it was Washington, NC, a completely different station. Sal Hi All, With a small TV antenna from Sears (like Sal, back in the mid 60s), up 5 feet above the roof (split level), on the crest of a hill (6200 feet in Colorado Springs), I was able to DX Calgary and Edmonton. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC In California we would call that hill a mountain. DX'ing here is only north and south since I am in the central valley north of Sacramento, but I did sometimes get Reno, Nevada. It only worked up to channel 5 and then 6 and 7 were somewhere higher, then 8 to 13 were too high for any DX'ing stuff. UHF barely even existed back then unless you got a converter box, which I did not. Now I am back to my Hammarlund HQ-129 and an RME DB-20 tuned pre-amp. The Hammarlund barely needs it but it does help some for getting C.B. on the top. Bill Baka |
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