Posted on 06/14/2010 7:43:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
I enjoy homebrew QRP too, but do not operate 6 meters. Am an old ham also. Extra & Commercial.
My favorite band is still 15 meters. A lot more openings, sporatic E.
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Isn’t that a good thing, when it comes to trying to transmit? I mean doesn’t increased sun activity make radio transmission poor?
Yep, we will never predict the future. God is laughing about our arrogant ignorance.
EE
Gads, what a blessing that would be.
Here in central Texas "really cold" is anything below 90 degrees.
I for one welcome our new Ice Age overlords...
The Sun’s constant “interaction” with earth.........
I know vitually nothing about this subject. It just seems that ‘interaction’ hardly describes this relationship. I mean, the Earth can do nothing for or against the Sun, but the Sun is the physical source of this planet’s survival as we know it.
Just watch out when it turns to ‘blood’........
When 6 is good, it's very good. When it's dead, it's dead. 10 is about the same.
I favor the higher frequencies because it's easier on this property.
When I was in New Mexico, I had a 160 meter full length horizontal V. No room for that kind of thing here.
/johnny
Stop that!!!! *shivers*
No, not if you're relying on refraction off the ionosphere. Most long haul RF transmissions require refraction off the E or F layers in the atmosphere. The level of ionozation determines what the maximum usable frequency is. That determines how far the propogation works (very simplified version of mechanism).
ACK! NO! The sun spots and spurts excite the ionosphere and make it all shiny and reflective. The MUF (maximum usable frequency) climbs off the scale at a real peak. Otherwise, high frequency radio waves just leave earth to annoy civilizations hundreds of light years away.
Sunspots trap the radio waves to the planet and let you talk with very low power all over the globe.
Thats a Good Thing(tm). /johnny
/johnny
I lived in NM for 14 years. Got my first ham ticket while I was living there in 1976. That was when I first sat before a FCC examiner at the Federal Building on Commerce Street in Dallas.
Most of my ham friends worked at the Labs or were Mil. Lots of very capable techs. We did a lot of homebrew. I truly miss that crowd.
My father-in-law (recently deceased) was an EE and worked in the weapons industry for 40 years. I love RF techies.
makes your fist look like you’ve had too much tuner cleaner.
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Thanks....I thought he was sending it encrypted, I mean I used to be accused of having a ‘banana boat swing’ but that was a ...I kind of picked up something about American Morse Code, but it was a lot of ‘creative editing’ so not quite sure what he was doing....
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Wachovia knows.
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let you talk with very low power all over the globe.
Thats a Good Thing(tm). /johnny
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I can remember sitting in Yokosuka Japan and not being able to converse with another ship in the harbor while openly talking to a ship in Hong Kong....was using the old boat radios early 60’s, Of course, Morse is different, would ignore close comm centers and go for DX... the ‘monitors’ did not like that, but then again, if they are not sitting in the shack with you, who are they to tell what you can or can’t hear.....hmmmmmm
I did too for many years. I never operated a ham rig until I got my advanced. My first attempt I missed 13 WPM code but got enough characters for 5 WPM credit. Had a tech for about a month. Went back and passed the 13 WPM code and the advanced written.
The ticket you hold in not important, but what you do with the hobby. I feel the same way about my commercial license, even taught classes for that at Dyess AFB a couple of summers. Great bunch of tech, I really enjoyed that.
Same office, 1971. I rode over on a bus, alone at 11 years old. Never happen today.
Tubes, fergawdsakes. Draw a Colpitts oscillator. Identify the grid, heater, and plate.
Rules for novices. 100 watts. Band plans.
Those were the days.
/johnny
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