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