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ChrisOlson:
--- Quote from: madlabs on March 08, 2016, 12:19:21 AM ---Many thanks for the detailed information on your antenna build! I might have room up on a shipping container but my solar panels would be within oh sh...oot range. I see you have some panels that look like they might be in range. I am interested in antenna with radials, my soil is really bad.
At work for 48 hours but I'll listen for the beacon when I get home. Where is your qth again?
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Mad, I am in northern Wisconsin. I checked into the 75m net tonight with that 33 foot vertical and talked to a station in Arkansas with it running barefoot at 100 watts. And that was thru the static crashes from the impending weather that's moving in. It works pretty good.
Mary B:
Yeah I may be in to close to hear it on my vertical...
ChrisOlson:
--- Quote from: Mary B on March 08, 2016, 07:13:56 PM ---Yeah I may be in to close to hear it on my vertical...
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Shouldn't be too close. At 2 watts it puts a pretty decent signal into the Great Lakes Listening Post during the day, which is about the same distance from here to you, except to the southeast. All they got for an antenna at that station is one of those little PA0RDT Mini Whips, which is basically a powered antenna in a PVC can and it's no bigger than a ball point pen. Otherwise there's 7-8 of us (depending on the day) on that frequency exchanging messages back and forth during the day at distances anywhere from 7 miles to 250 miles away up in the Michigan UP, and one in Ontario, Canada. All of us are using verticals of one type or another, except for the closest station to me that's 7 miles away is using an inverted V 40m dipole.
SparWeb:
Thought you'd like to check out this site, Mary:
http://www.livemeteors.com/
Is there something special or convenient about 55.240 MHz?
I have to wait for May 6 to try this during a serious meteor shower (the Aquarids).
Mary B:
If my fuzzy memory serves me that was the TV channel 2 audio sub carrier frequency... with digital not sure it is still in use. I just park on 50.125 and when I start hearing a bunch of pings I know things are getting good.
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