Yea, they were the good ol'days and, no one can take them away from us.
If it wasn't for Lou and, his vast radio knowledge, I probably wouldn't be
in ham radio today.
73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: 12 meters
>I remember that, back in my SWL days in the 60's, Harry Davis, W3FDY used
>to
> do that on a regular basis using weather balloons. He always had a killer
> on 75 AM but it was even stronger with those verticals. Lou WA3MIX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Kwan" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:32 AM
> Subject: Re: 12 meters
>
>
>> damn now I want to steal the idea of the hot air balloon. It would be
>> amazing since with incredible hite, most of the antennas I have for
>> mobile
>> would work fantastically. Wow, that's the next best thing to going
> airplane
>> mobile.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 6:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: 12 meters
>>
>>
>> Isn't it funny how it seems like the band noise drops when signals are
>> flurishing on any given band. Let the band go dead and one or two weak
>> signals leak through, and the noise is a pain in the butt. When I lived
> in
>> western Colorado, I had a house in the new sub division of this little
> town
>> up above the town itself. All cables were buried. Zero noise on every
>> freaking band. I had a clear view, for what that is worth when you are
>> blind, directly east to the mountains for about 20 miles. To the west,
>> it
>> was flat for hundreds of yards due to an open field. My 80 and 40 meter
>> inverted vees worked stuff I never have even heard here in Denver with
>> all
>> the city man made noises. I had a vertical on the ground in my backyard
>> over there, too, and on 40 meters, it blew holes through the west coast
> when
>> working DX on 40 meters. I was totally amazed. The bands were hot back
>> then, though, and that sure made a big difference but that zero line
>> noise
>> was amazing. I have a friend who went out for a 160 meter contest and
> they
>> put up a hot air balloon with 130 foot wires for radials and a ground
> plane
>> on 160 meters and sailed it up to about 120 feet. My friend told me that
>> one night, he tuned down around the 150 to 500 KHZ band and he heard VOR
>> signals he had never heard before. Oh, I forgot to mention. They were
>> 13
>> miles from the nearest power lines and used a quiet generator to power
> their
>> 160 meter station.
>>
>> Phil.
>> K0NX
>
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