bpnjensen wrote:

Heck, I used to get 40 states and Canada and Mexico on my old
Astronaut-8 and a 60 ft. wire from Massachusetts, and I didn't know
what I was doing.. MW is not that hard if you just spend a bit of time
at the right moments.


Was the sixty foot wire from Massachusetts attached to a cable company
on the other end? I bet being so close you could wave to their secretary..




mike

Howdy - Actually, this set-up predated cable by quite a few years!
Mid-1970s. It was strung up in some of our BIG trees. We were lucky -
way out in the sticks of west-central state, we had no QRM to speak of,
and fine dark skies at night for astronomy. Could hear Arthur Cushen
on RNZ's little transmitter from half a world away easily. KFI - LA
was an infrequent but definite visitor. Could hear Lome, Togo 5047
too, while here it's just a weak heterodyne on SSB.

Lord, how I miss it. Urban California is a sad, sad substitute. sigh
Bruce Jensen