Icom IC-7000
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Did you see the video on youtube of the guardrail antenna?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWsdaSmWg7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWsdaSmWg7E
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Hi Richard,
Contacts were on both 20 and 40. The overseas contacts were on 20. I put the antenna up in a nice open location where I string up a windom and other dipoles to do a comparison. The noise on the magloop is very very low due to its narrow bandwidth, so its great for hearing signals that are normally masked by noise.
I'm very interested in 80 and 160m, but as you say the space and height is that hard part! especially on 160!
Cheers,
Matt
Contacts were on both 20 and 40. The overseas contacts were on 20. I put the antenna up in a nice open location where I string up a windom and other dipoles to do a comparison. The noise on the magloop is very very low due to its narrow bandwidth, so its great for hearing signals that are normally masked by noise.
I'm very interested in 80 and 160m, but as you say the space and height is that hard part! especially on 160!
Cheers,
Matt
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Guardrail antenna! I thought about using the guttering on my apartment, but the joins are pretty nasty and corroded - not to mention the legal aspect of firing 100 watts in 8 apartments of people that aren't aware of it...
Good on him though! I like it!
Good on him though! I like it!
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True that! After playing around hacking and cracking P25 encryption using state of the art Software Radio, and then co-authoring a paper on it and also showing it off at hacker conferences in front of the Feds, I was somewhat stressed out and needed something simple to play with.Mike Alpha wrote:You're getting old Mattcitabria wrote:After playing with UHF/VHF for 15 years or so on and off, this HF thing has really got my interest!
So I bought a HF radio and a morse code key - its actually really good fun and a nice skill to have.
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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call Morse Code.citabria wrote:True that! After playing around hacking and cracking P25 encryption using state of the art Software Radio, and then co-authoring a paper on it and also showing it off at hacker conferences in front of the Feds, I was somewhat stressed out and needed something simple to play with.Mike Alpha wrote:You're getting old Mattcitabria wrote:After playing with UHF/VHF for 15 years or so on and off, this HF thing has really got my interest!
So I bought a HF radio and a morse code key - its actually really good fun and a nice skill to have.
R
Amateur Radio, when all other cures for insomnia fail!
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Good one Rusty..
I will add one thing - its a complete prick to learn too!
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The beauty of the IC7000 is that it has a RTTY decoder- I sometimes let it run to see who still uses RTTY.
Cheers,
Richard
Cheers,
Richard
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Now thats one thing I was really interested in when I bought the IC7000 - but I never hear anyone using RTTY...ivahri wrote:The beauty of the IC7000 is that it has a RTTY decoder- I sometimes let it run to see who still uses RTTY.
Cheers,
Richard