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I got my license, now what?
- Thread starter Tallman
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You could be exactly right, those hormones really get pumping and the brains just go right out the window.:blushing:ya might want to slow down a bit and find out EXACTLY what all that "auto" logging/scanning stuff is about.
I'll bet what he is saying and what you are hearing are two different things. good luck
I'm going to build a fan dipole with the ugly balun and feed it with that. The antenna tuner works great on it. I watched a video on this site on how to build it. I was told that the 160 meter band doesn't have much of anything going on down there. After listening for a while for a while I'll decide which bands. I am positive 20 meters is going to be in there.
Sounds good Tall !!
Sounds like you are doing your homework.
I dont hardly ever hear anything on 160 either except 7 to 9 on my meter of static..so I leave that band alone usually...
My favorite bands are 80 ,and 17 to 10 meters ...with 17 at the top of the list
Sounds like you are doing your homework.
I dont hardly ever hear anything on 160 either except 7 to 9 on my meter of static
..so I leave that band alone usually... My favorite bands are 80 ,and 17 to 10 meters ...with 17 at the top of the list
As a new guy myself, 20 definitely seems to have a lot going for it. Fan Dipole sounds like a great idea.
Sounds good Tall !!
Sounds like you are doing your homework.
I dont hardly ever hear anything on 160 either except 7 to 9 on my meter of static
My favorite bands are 80 ,and 17 to 10 meters ...with 17 at the top of the list
17 is my fav as well. The Vatican was on 18.149 this morning. Too big of a pile up to get them.
I tend to avoid 20 meters,I hate to say, simply because there are a couple of groups that run that band that are somewhat anti ...well...everybody that dont kiss their a$$ . ...
I have heard these people key over others,cuss out people,and generally be royally rude to people that dont see things like they do,and they both have their so called leaders for lack of a better term.The only good thing about them is they tend to stay on their ' home frequency ' and not drift to far from it......
But I have managed to get those two groups rather fired up so i figure just let them have that band ,to many other frequencies to play radio on
I have heard these people key over others,cuss out people,and generally be royally rude to people that dont see things like they do,and they both have their so called leaders for lack of a better term.The only good thing about them is they tend to stay on their ' home frequency ' and not drift to far from it......
But I have managed to get those two groups rather fired up
so i figure just let them have that band ,to many other frequencies to play radio on
Yea well, it's a little better than 147.435...even tho that's VHF. 313 has it's moments.
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20m is usually the most reliable DX band. Anyone that would avoid 20m because of a couple idiots that at least stick to their own freqs. (14.313 and 14.275 perhaps?) is REALLY missing out on a lot. I suppose you should also avoid 80m because of all the Piss and Moan nets as well as a couple of Burp and Fart groups around 3885 AM.