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Well, Pat, let's try again sometime, and I am still interested in that
75-meter possibility on one of these cold winter days when I'm working at
home.
Or, perhaps we can do it on a week-end day too.
73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: Nothing heard on 1.848 MHZ
>I didn't hear anything either Tom. There was a zero up the band
> perhaps at 1860 discussing his forty and seventy-five meter wire
> antennnaes and he had a good signal but no familiar calls! Granted I
> don't have a good 160 antenna, but I am disappointed in the ambient
> noise level at my house. It would be less a problem with a properly
> tuned antenna but the Icom said "S9" and that takes a bit of a signal
> to overcome. I would love to get up perhaps 100 feet of wire and
> feed it at the house end through a simple tuner and run coax through
> the crawl space to it, but probably won't be able to recruit help to
> get the end of the wire up in the trees. My old time ham friends
> aren't as likely to do cold weather/snow antenna work as in the old
> days!! Me too!!
> Pat, K9JAUAt 07:26 PM 11/18/2011, you wrote:
>>Hi, all.
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>>I have heard nothing from any blind ham ops on 1.848 MHZ.
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>>I wonder if anyone heard me calling?
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>>I'm going to play around a little more now on 160 to see what I can do.
>>
>>Thanks for anyone who tried contacting me.
>>
>>We'll give it another try one of these eveneings real soon.
>>
>>73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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