That's nice.What is so good about my raggity old vans.(1971 Chevrolet
short wheelbase van and 1978 Dodge lonnnnngggg wheelbase van and 1982
regular length wheelbase Ford van and 1976 Chevrolet great bigggg wide
and tall longggg wheelbase ex-bread truck van) They already have a built
in ''AutoExec'' (the dog house/engine cover) Dont need a tent either and
I have a few inverters.
cuhulin

Yep, a van can be well utilized for this sort of thing. Twice
recently, I used a friend's old van for this very purpose. Nice to
have lots of space...

Hmm, I don't use any inverters...


wrote:
That's nice.What is so good about my raggity old vans.(1971 Chevrolet
short wheelbase van and 1978 Dodge lonnnnngggg wheelbase van and 1982
regular length wheelbase Ford van and 1976 Chevrolet great bigggg wide
and tall longggg wheelbase ex-bread truck van) They already have a built
in ''AutoExec'' (the dog house/engine cover) Dont need a tent either and
I have a few inverters.
cuhulin

Selwyn-Lloyd McPherson wrote:

Hi,

I'm living in a fairly large college dorm and I feel as though, as a
consequence, my Grundig FR-200 is not able to pick up what it otherwise
might. Considering that around 400-500 college students live here and
remembering that college student = laptop / desktop + television +
stereos + who knows what else. . . Do you think this would make a
significant difference? Am I living in shortwave hell?

Thanks in advance for your ideas!


Selwyn-Lloyd


The college dorms I've seen have all been built out of thick concrete.
In such a building, you'll have to put your radio in a window (the sill
should have plenty of room) to get anything. If you can hang a wire out
the window, great.

I can report that dorms were fine for shortwave in 1960. I had a
KWM2 to communicate back home, even, my father and I being
K2DQA and K2DQB respectively. I had a 40m dipole hanging in the
trees.
--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Ron Hardin wrote:

I can report that dorms were fine for shortwave in 1960. I had a
KWM2 to communicate back home, even, my father and I being
K2DQA and K2DQB respectively. I had a 40m dipole hanging in the
trees.


Those must have been older dorms, or dorms in a different part of the
country (I'm in California). Most everything I've seen that's in current
use is concrete. Of course, if you string a wire up in a tree it's not
likely to matter, as I noted.