Have my 706 Mk II G on line right now on the VFN or Virginia Fone Net. I am looking for my friend out in Tennessee to check into the net. When the net is over I am going to try to get him to QSY to the lower part of the 75 Meter band wherein it will be much quieter...and we can better converse.
We are both running wire antennas..his a inverted V up some 90 feet in his trees.
Ahhhh..there he is...he just identified himself.
I am going to have to run a bit of power tonight as the noise level is up higher than usual.
Will switch to my Yaesu FT 890 and my Ameritron 811 H amp...set at about 250 watts. Antenna is a wire loop consisting of some 500 feet of 12 gauge black insulated wire from Lowes....up in my trees some 85 feet at the highest point....suspended by pulleys in some areas.
When first my friend left this area and moved to Tennessee..I was dubious as to how well this system would work...at some 400 miles distance...but so far it has worked out well..on 3947 KHZ.....LSB.
At times we switch to 160 meters but usually like to stay in the 75 meter band. 160 meters can get more noisy than 75 meters.
Has saved us a lot of phone charges so far.
My friend is also working on bringing back up his CW skills. We hope to keep up this skill and not let it perish.
Thanks,
Orangetom
Adding this in edit function.
Was able to catch up with my friend and we QSY'd down to 3630 KHZ..down on the lower end of the band wherein it tends to be a bit less crowded and talked for about 35 minutes. It was good to catch up with my friend again. No phone charges.
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