Hi Harry,

Before I could afford a house of my own, I lived in all kinds of apartments 
and used everything from long wires to rain gutters, to a fence rail, to a 
no-seeum antenna made of 26 gage wire and on and on.  Don't give up!  There 
is always a way!

I also do not like auto tuners.  I use a noise bridge with my PalStar k2000 
tuner and I can tune almost anything.  Now anything doesn't get out very 
well, but its better than nothing!

Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:00 PM
Subject: I feel absolutely hopeless about hf, thinking of just letting my 
license, go


Hi all,
Well, the subject line says alot of it.
Folks, where do I start?
I have been a ham for 35 years, and I now live in an apartment, which is =
all concrete and steel.
Here's what I've done so far.
I've tryed isopoles antennas, I've tryed dipoles, I've tryed moble =
antennas.
Tonight, I tryed putting up the trap 80 40 dipole antenna.
Receives great on 40, and especially, on 20!
What no matter what antenna I use, no matter which antenna, all I get on =
my kenwood 570 is the cw that says swr.
So, I'm screwed.
I've spent hundreds of dollars on different antennas, and what a waste =
of money!
I even use the kt1 auto tuner and hooked up a piece of copper wire, and =
just threw it over the balcony railing!
All I can say is, who cares any more.
If I would have known 35 years ago, this is what my hobby would become, =
I probably might not have got my license.
I can't use the handiham w0eqo or w0zsw hf remote base, because I have =
it and everything I need to log in, and Joe, n3ain tryed to help me with =
it, and nothing.
Then, when I finally was able to log in, no key strokes would work.
My friend, has an echo link software on his computer, and there is an hf =
remote base on echo link, kb8zgl, but when we try to connect to it, we =
get the ID, but nothing else, no audio from hf at all.
I hope those of you who do have hf enjoy it for me, and enjoy it, =
because there might come a time, where you will live somewhere like I =
do.
It might sound like I'm complaining, and maybe, I am, but more and more =
hams like me now, and more and more, as we all get older, will.
I miss being able to get on hf any time, just like I could in the late =
70s, with my good old hw101, which would work with any, and I mean any =
antenna, and it didn't care what the swr was
73,
Trippy, ac8s