40 phone was good to me tonight!

[ElevenBravo]

Just got off the radio, had some really great ragchews on 40 phone tonight! Worked DE, IL and KY! Lowest RST was 55, best was 58... so 100w into my homebrew vertical is working a treat!

Was happy to make the contacts and wanted to share.
EB

[bacpacker]

Good report EB! What kind of vertical have you come up with?

[ElevenBravo]

28 foot tall Jackite fiberglass mast with 10ga wire secured to it.. an LDG 4:1 BALUN at the base, the whole thing is mounted on a chain link fence... which is also the ground and counterpoise.

28' (Ive had this for a while)
http://www.jackite.com/product_info....d4a959fc48a00b


31' (Id like to have one of these, 3' more wire)
http://www.jackite.com/product_info....d4a959fc48a00b


Basically, its a duplicate of the Eagle One antenna which sells for $165
http://www.w8afx.com/

The Eagle One is nothing fancy or special... its the same as mine, fiberglass pole and wire.

I work 40,20 and 15 on mine with good results!

EB

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

Well hell, I guess you should have let me know we could have tried to link up. Good to hear you are up and running but we still need to establish some comms, give me a shout when you have the time EB. Outstanding work, glad you are up and sparking!

[ElevenBravo]

RR, we can try again... But with your dipole orientation, Im not at your broadside so it likely wont work any better than before... I suspect if you can put up a vertical with omnidirectional propagation we could likely talk with little problem... I suspect.

EB

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

RR, we can try again... But with your dipole orientation, Im not at your broadside so it likely wont work any better than before... I suspect if you can put up a vertical with omnidirectional propagation we could likely talk with little problem... I suspect.

EB

Actually I have studied underwater sound propagation and according to my calculations you are on my "broadside" which me being a sailor puts you in a shitty situation...........OK having a moment I mean you're on my broadside at about 400 miles as the crow flies I don't see why we can't establish a link especially if your hitting IL and KY. OK, call me when you're ready, we'll give it another shot. If we're lucky Bacpacker will get his up before winter sets in.

[ElevenBravo]

RR, Ill be with you before the week is out...

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

Hey, no problem............I'm kinda FUBAR over here right now anyway. Take your time.

[ElevenBravo]

RR, if Im not mistaken, please confirm... when we spoke last your dipole was setup same as mine, the two ends pointed East and West.

EB

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

Uh, no mine wires run North South. I have a pretty good reception swath all around except it seems around 090 and 270 degrees + or - 10 degrees I would guess. I do hear guys in the "5" region but I think they are putting out some serious power and are directional Yagi's by listening to their conversations. I do hear the Carolina's, New York, Pennsylvania as well so I don't see why we can't make this work, hell you're right in the middle...........BUT...........you could be that piss hole in the snow. Or maybe that would be me? Still, mission comes first and it can't be accomplished on this thread. We can only come back bragging that we made it work and at least some of us got off our duffs and made shit work. We made a contingency plan......"not wanting to offend any of our readers with my last statement" wait a minute me offend someone? Yeah whatever.....anyway maybe we can some other folks onboard with this FINALLY. After all how many years have we been talking about a network?

OK, enough BS, call me when you're ready brother and we will try it again. I'm still puzzled, did you change something since the last time we tried this?