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11 meter is very quiet?
- Thread starter Tweetybird
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Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
I just took the visor hooks off and shoved a 12 inch piece of deck board up in there.... git r done!
Well I got my Bearcat 980 and a home-brew quarterwave vertical connected. Vertical is up at 12 feet to the feed point. It was snowing so that is all the effort I put into it today. When it warms up I will try to get it up another 10 feet up into the tree.
There wasn't a lot of traffic. I called out on 19 several times and commented I don't know if this is working or the band is just dead locally. Finally got a response and had a 5 min. chat with a guy across town. Lots of hills here and he was in a hole but we did make contact. Had to have some RM Italy help to do it but everything seems to be working.
I am thinking if I don't hear a lot of local traffic I may just leave the vertical where it is at. DX doesn't need a terrible amount of elevation on verticals. Heck I have several of my HF antennas on the ground over a buried radial field and doing FT8 has put me all across the globe with 30 watts.
73 KJ7EFC
Big A on CB AM
Boise 521 on CB SSB
There wasn't a lot of traffic. I called out on 19 several times and commented I don't know if this is working or the band is just dead locally. Finally got a response and had a 5 min. chat with a guy across town. Lots of hills here and he was in a hole but we did make contact. Had to have some RM Italy help to do it but everything seems to be working.
I am thinking if I don't hear a lot of local traffic I may just leave the vertical where it is at. DX doesn't need a terrible amount of elevation on verticals. Heck I have several of my HF antennas on the ground over a buried radial field and doing FT8 has put me all across the globe with 30 watts.
73 KJ7EFC
Big A on CB AM
Boise 521 on CB SSB
I got to talk with somebody 28 miles away and and another about double that. 28 mile guy sounded like he was next door to me and Connecticut guy was half that but I could hear him fine, but he could barely hear me.
This set up so far works better than anything I've ever had.
This set up so far works better than anything I've ever had.
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Bearcat 980 and a 102" whip mounted on the bed rail of the truck.
The way Boise is laid out there are a lot of high points in town and low points. The north end of town drops down behind a nice cliff wall so people have to have a pretty tall tower to talk over it. No one has a tower that I know of. The town at 28 miles from us is behind a couple of pretty high hills. Reaching them is not possible on AM. I can with SSB but few even run SSB here. I called out tonight on 38 lower and got silence.
On my 2 meter rig running 10 watts FM on 146.52 I can reach out a whole lot better. Those hills cut me off from several operators but some that I have line of site to with my Tram 1480 antenna up at 30 feet I can reach pretty well.
On my 2 meter rig running 10 watts FM on 146.52 I can reach out a whole lot better. Those hills cut me off from several operators but some that I have line of site to with my Tram 1480 antenna up at 30 feet I can reach pretty well.
I tried that here and I could not get 5 miles successfully. Change to the vertical in a tree and I get him fine. Terrain here is really wild throughout the town and between local towns.
This is running no amp, but a power mic.
I am also surrounded by mountains.
Hudson Valley, New York
I got a light console in the way. VDP has a shelf unit that attaches to visor mounts.
Could make it or order it.
Jealous but glad you are doing so well and stock to boot.