I don't know many people with that kind of money. I have a good chunk of
land and miles and miles of woods behind me so I can pretty much do what I
want with wires but that's my limitation because we might not be here
another couple years so putting up a tower might be a waste, and there's no
way I'd even think of going up more than 40 or 50 feet with the wind we get
out here and being on wet lands.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: Art Bell back on ham bands and noticing something strange with
20-meters
> 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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