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"Bill Gunshannon" wrote in message ... In article , Bert Hyman writes: (Bill Gunshannon) wrote in : I have just set up my vertical and a couple of HF rigs after a hiatus of more than a decade. I have not heard a single station above 40M yet. I did hear a PA0 on 80M, good signal too. Guess I picked the wrong time to get interested again. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting into this again. bill KB3YV Beacons A Bunch at AC6V's site URL: http://ac6v.com/beacons.htm Lamont |
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Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Bryan writes: Jack VK2CJC wrote: when the Steelers-Patriots game began. Not being from the US, this is a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar. What's it all about? -- Jack VK2CJC / MM0AXL FISTS #9666 CW Ops QRP Club #753 Mid North Coast Amateur Radio Group www.mncarg.org Skype- vk2cjc MSN Messenger- (this emails return address) Hi Jack, It's what we call football (played with protective padding) in the states. I would hazard a guess that soccer or rugby (played w/o padding) is a bit rougher. I understand that the difference between soccer and rugby is that in soccer, injuring your opponent is incidental to scoring while in rugby, scoring is incidental to injuring your opponent. ;-) 73, Bryan WA7PRC Look at his call. Then ask him about his brand of football!! bill KB3YV Yes, I've worked many VK... I should've mentioned Australian Rules Football. A friend (with tongue in cheek) explained it to me, "The first rule is, there are no rules." ;-) As a kid, we used to play touch (American) football in the schoolyard. It was too easy to tag a ball carrier, so we made it two-handed. That was too easy, so we made it two-handed-below-the-knees. Whether your tagged the ball carrier or not, you were headed for the ground. The question was how much it was going to hurt! ;-) 73, Bryan WA7PRC |
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"Bryan" writes: Bill Gunshannon wrote: Bert Hyman writes: Bill Gunshannon wrote: in I have just set up my vertical and a couple of HF rigs after a hiatus of more than a decade. I have not heard a single station above 40M yet. I did hear a PA0 on 80M, good signal too. Guess I picked the wrong time to get interested again. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting into this again. I had almost forgot how much fun it could be. Maybe my next house will even have a tower and an HF beam. :-) Wonder whent he next RTTY contest is? That was always my favorite mode. All the best for the holidays to everyone. bill KB3YV The nice thing about a full 40m lambda/2 dipole is that it'll accept power on 15m as well. A major point in my decision to go with a 40M dipole. :-) While 15 has been mostly dead, there have been times when there's activity. I don't have anything for 10m (yet) so I can't give my personal impression, though some hams have reported short openings. 40 & 80 have been pretty hot... worked China on 40 in the WWDX CW contest... heard a G3 working a pileup on 80m CW a few nights ago. It wasn't by any chance G3YEU, was it? A very good old friend of mine from the days when I was DA1WO and he was DA1BS. I'm on the left coast and have just low dipoles for those bands (80m is a 4-wire cage inverted vee). Well, I do have a Dentron Super Tuner as well, so in a pinch I can work any band (except 160 which seems to be not working on my Drake at the moment.) bill KB3YV -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include std.disclaimer.h |
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What!!! Football made you miss part of a 10mtr band contest????
Well.... I dont know what to say..... I...... I...... I....... I'm shocked and appauled :o) |
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:27:36 -0500, Jack VK2CJC wrote:
What!!! Football made you miss part of a 10mtr band contest???? Well.... I dont know what to say..... I...... I...... I....... I'm shocked and appauled The *real* ham would have installed a TV tuner card in his hamshack computer & operated during the time-outs. (which seem to comprise 90% of the broadcast of an American football game...) |
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Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Bryan writes: Bill Gunshannon wrote: Bert Hyman writes: Bill Gunshannon wrote: in I have just set up my vertical and a couple of HF rigs after a hiatus of more than a decade. I have not heard a single station above 40M yet. I did hear a PA0 on 80M, good signal too. Guess I picked the wrong time to get interested again. Not necessarily; there's nowhere to go but up as the sunspots return. I run Faros on the PC in the shack every weekend, from Friday afternoon 'til Sunday evening watching and waiting ... http://www.dxatlas.com/Faros/ One of my earliest ham-radio memories is a 1961 CQ cover with the depressing title "Cycle 19 - The Declining Years" (I was first licensed in January 1961). Well, I just went out this morning and put up a 40M dipole (best I could come up with from the junk left over in my cellar) and it hears a lot better than the vertical. (A quick test using CHU showed it to be at least twice as good as the vertical. Heard some guys chatting on 20M. Heard what sounded like some slowscan and some packet, too. Nothing above 20M but definitely better than what I heard during SS a couple weekends ago. Have to find a listing for beacons and start getting into this again. I had almost forgot how much fun it could be. Maybe my next house will even have a tower and an HF beam. :-) Wonder whent he next RTTY contest is? That was always my favorite mode. All the best for the holidays to everyone. bill KB3YV The nice thing about a full 40m lambda/2 dipole is that it'll accept power on 15m as well. A major point in my decision to go with a 40M dipole. :-) While 15 has been mostly dead, there have been times when there's activity. I don't have anything for 10m (yet) so I can't give my personal impression, though some hams have reported short openings. 40 & 80 have been pretty hot... worked China on 40 in the WWDX CW contest... heard a G3 working a pileup on 80m CW a few nights ago. It wasn't by any chance G3YEU, was it? A very good old friend of mine from the days when I was DA1WO and he was DA1BS. I'm on the left coast and have just low dipoles for those bands (80m is a 4-wire cage inverted vee). Well, I do have a Dentron Super Tuner as well, so in a pinch I can work any band (except 160 which seems to be not working on my Drake at the moment.) bill KB3YV I cut my 40/15m dipole for 7.07/21.21 MHz. I don't recall the callsign of the G3. Check out some of the nifty calculator programs on www.smeter.net. I used two... one for the cage dipole/inv-vee and one for a lambda/2 vertical for 20m. I use Davis RF (I have no connection with them) for my wire antenna parts. I found my local metal supplier *stocks* a good variety of aluminum tubing. I'll use them as a source of materials to resurrect my 15m/3el homebrew yagi for the upcoming sunspot peak. 73, Bryan WA7PRC |
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