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Recent content by ENC Pirate

  1. ENC Pirate

    11 meter is very quiet?

    wow wide open finally, western Canada,Las Vegas, Southern California. 73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras, NC
  2. ENC Pirate

    Ground plane vs metal mast

    Well there are a lot more than a handful of knowledgeable members on here, take that to the bank. 73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras
  3. ENC Pirate

    11 meter is very quiet?

    I hear other stations talking to you but, nothing will let me contact, max output, tried all the antennas,lol. I imagine we are to close together. 73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras
  4. ENC Pirate

    11 meter is very quiet?

    You are right, skip is rolling 73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras
  5. ENC Pirate

    11 meter is very quiet?

    Great day yesterday for most of Europe from East Coast USA. Was working with the Beams, the Imax, ya know all the good stuff, but truth be said best contacts were on the little old 35 dollar dipole hands down, and at only 25 feet, inverted V. So throw that wire up in a tree and get talking:)...
  6. ENC Pirate

    11 meter is very quiet?

    Great contact 246 Nome Alaska.... 73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras, NC
  7. ENC Pirate

    Antenna height questions

    lol, 6 feet but on the water. I have my beams up pretty high but being on the ocean I dont think it matters, the dipoles and verticals all work fine at 20 feet. I plan on putting my old 3 element beam on a ten foot pole and see what happens, I am betting it does fine for DX . 73's Ocean One...
  8. ENC Pirate

    Best low-end watt/VSWR meter you would suggest

    yep 1.8~200mhz 73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras
  9. ENC Pirate

    Best low-end watt/VSWR meter you would suggest

    I have a few Workman HP201s, work well actually, cheap, and I have put a full KW through them. My main rig I have the Daiwa CN-901 HP 2 KW, flawless, Not a big Dosy fan anymore, price issues not quality. 73"s Ocean One Cape Hatteras
  10. ENC Pirate

    11 meter is very quiet?

    Conditions slowly moving west, into Costa Rica now, BY501 San Jose. If anyone is interested conditions improving on signal to Europe around 3 pm East Coast time, last 3 or four days 27.305 USB was active into the UK. 27.577 USB into Germany and Italy. Not much luck with the vertical, but...
  11. ENC Pirate

    11 meter is very quiet?

    27.570 lsb is cooking into French Guiana now, 22RC102 Radio Sunshine 73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras
  12. ENC Pirate

    SPT-500

    What ?Because it can’t be sold as CB antenna because it is aluminum. CB aluminum antennas were banned, I think in the 80’s. That’s when fiberglass antennas began to be made for CB use like the A99." ?????? There are dozens of Metal CB antennas on the market, and if you can tune it you can use...
  13. ENC Pirate

    SPT-500

    MFJ statements are really dumb ass. Made for 10/12 meter,lol, illegal on 11?, frigging joke. Lets just say they dont want any CB business, but back to the point the antenna works fine even without one of those new fangled magic tuners, LOL.... 73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras
  14. ENC Pirate

    11 meter is very quiet?

    Got to admit, it was a rock and Roll Day,long lost hidden places came alive, maybe it will repeat? 73's Ocean One Cape Hatteras
  15. ENC Pirate

    11 meter is very quiet?

    I agree Dan, something about the water, I have the ocean 150 feet to the east, and the Pamlico Sound to the west, Antenna mast's are in salt marsh, I'd mention some of the places I hear signals from but no one would believe me,lol. My guess is extended ground wave, I can talk to S america with...