Heard an interesting conversation on the HF band this morning

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

Hell, at least I could hear ya rat, you were deep in the mud but I heard ya!

Just ordered a Cobra CB mic, Mac off QRLid says the impd. will match up FB on the TenTec!! Just gotta wire it is all.. Hope to put the new 'tenna up Sun if Im not too busy cutting wood for at the range (looking forward to shooing 100y on a private range!!)

EB

If you weren't over on the other side of the ridge you could shoot on my 200yd range. Good to hear you got a mike on the way. I need to read my manual about CW with this rig I'm sure I can transmit without having to buy extra goods.

[bacpacker]

There are as mant different ways to mount an antenna as you have fingers and toes. Mine will mount on an arm mounted to a mast with a pulley to raise and lower the actual antenna with. My antenna is basically a long wire, called a Carolina Windom. Its something around 130ft long, mounts at the 2/3=1/3 length point. Ends will be mounted between a tree and a post on the grape arbor.
A vertical will mount radically different.

[ak474u]

Show me a pic of your internet tower (whatever the hell that is...) and Ill give you my opinion.

EB

They have to climb up a pole to do the interwebs in Canada like the phone on green acres. Lol

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

There are as mant different ways to mount an antenna as you have fingers and toes. Mine will mount on an arm mounted to a mast with a pulley to raise and lower the actual antenna with. My antenna is basically a long wire, called a Carolina Windom. Its something around 130ft long, mounts at the 2/3=1/3 length point. Ends will be mounted between a tree and a post on the grape arbor.
A vertical will mount radically different.

Crickets?..........do I hear Crickets?

It's OK bro I just hope we don't lose our grid tomorrow and we never speak again, It will be all your fault and I hope you feel guilty because we never set up a comm plan and a set of emergency freqs. Or am I the one that has to do this?

[Sniper-T]

Being Waaaaaay rural, I have an open air internet set up... my tower has to hit the server tower 11-ish miles away...

this is it:



that is about 21 feet over my peak, or 45 feet over ground.

[bacpacker]

You could cetianly put up a wire antenna on the mast. Drop it maybe 2 or 3ft below the interweb dish.

Rat, I cant blamme you for me being slow, or for having too much to do. Its all on me. I do hope shit dont go down tomorrow.

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

You could cetianly put up a wire antenna on the mast. Drop it maybe 2 or 3ft below the interweb dish.

Rat, I cant blamme you for me being slow, or for having too much to do. Its all on me. I do hope shit dont go down tomorrow.

You're not the slow one. I have you beat on numerous counts. But I'm going to have to post a new thread concerning our little threat. To be continued .....I hope.

[Kesephist]

Pardon, a 17 month necro... It happens

BWR13, i've never been that quality of an operator as the ones you may have heard in the OP of this thread. They are likely several orders of magnitude higher than I on several charts.

Better for them to be using chatter just a little off kilter. If they started babbling as though stoned, EVERYONE including the Nephew Norberts would know they were in code.

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Kesephist

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

SO where do we stand people? EB are you up and running?

[ElevenBravo]

My coax is rolled up right now... Need to work on the antenna, but the TenTec is still ready to fire up.

EB