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.
>>
>>I have heard nothing from any blind ham ops on 1.848 MHZ.
>>
>>I wonder if anyone heard me calling?
>>
>>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
>