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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