interestingly enough, quite a few folks up here have that.
A 120 foot tower is only around $5000 used and the antennas cost a few
hundred bucks to build, and the coax, another few hundred bucks....lots of
people don't blink an eye at spending $10,000 on other things like
motorcycles, renovations to the house what ever....if you have the property,
which many people do up here, then its really not expensive and not very
difficult to have that sort of set up.
In places like finland, sweeden and other northern european countries, lots
of folks have large antenna systems because they have summer places with
property that they can put stuf like that up.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: Art Bell back on ham bands and noticing something strange with
20-meters
> you have a point there, but who has that kind of setup? I know I never
will.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Art Bell back on ham bands and noticing something strange
with
> 20-meters
>
>
> > If you have a 6 element mono bander, or a pair of them at 110 feet,
> > believe
> > me, 20 isn't dead at night.
> > So, even though that is a massive antenna, it can't be said that 20
isn't
> > active at night, its just that most people can't hear or talk after a
> > certain time due to antenna and power limitations.
> > 73
> > Colin, V A6BKX
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 6:46 AM
> > Subject: Re: Art Bell back on ham bands and noticing something strange
> > with
> > 20-meters
> >
> >
> >> I'm finding it's good in the day but dead at night here, and I've
looked
> >> hard believe me.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:21 AM
> >> Subject: Art Bell back on ham bands and noticing something strange with
> >> 20-meters
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hi everyone, I have Art Bell on right now, and he has managed to get
an
> >> > antenna up for now at his condo. He has been operating on 20-meters,
> > and
> >> > has noticed that where he is located in the Philipines 20-meters is
> > active
> >> > at night and closed during the day. Art has talked with other hams
in
> >> > China and Africa, and other places and they are also noticing that
> >> > 20-meters is opening up after dark where they are and shut down
during
> > the
> >> > day. I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed this? I would
have
> >> > thought that 20-meters would be good during the day and would shut
down
> > at
> >> > night.
> >> >
> >
>
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