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#1
General Discussion / Re: Have you tried the 160m band?
November 03, 2017, 06:06:11 PM
Go for it, we need every band.
#2
General Discussion / Re: Have you tried the 160m band?
November 03, 2017, 02:33:09 PM
I have a 220 meter long line that I can set at 80m, 160m and 220. I used my 857 but never ever heard a thing. Used my vertical, my dipole, and my tower with the umbrella. still no luck.
#4
General Discussion / Re: Ham Radio ABC's for Preppers
February 14, 2017, 02:18:58 PM
low power drain.......light weight.......learn and use the code......don't expect Ham radios to work like a cell phone.
#5
Technical Corner / Re: Crystal set cat's whisker
June 15, 2016, 09:00:46 PM
Always wondered way back when a TV survey truck with an antenna would drive through the neighborhood and we were told it recorded (probably reel to reel :)) the channel each house was  watching and at the time I wondered how can you know what a receiver is receiving........well now I know.
#6
Technical Corner / Re: Crystal set cat's whisker
June 14, 2016, 09:04:11 PM
It has been said that the reason "foxhole radios" came into being was that the Germans developed a way of detecting our receivers oscillators not the transmitters but the receivers.........didn't know that was possible.......so no radios with oscillator circuits were allowed......thus the foxhole radio
#7
Technical Corner / Re: Crystal set cat's whisker
June 14, 2016, 06:24:52 PM
I am not buying it either......I got my first crystal set in 1954 and have been playing with them off and on since......a google of crystal set will bring up some very beautiful current builds.......lots of brass etc......now back to the cat's whisker......any fine wire will do but some do better.......the crystal turns the ac sig to dc so all the whisker does is find the right spot on the crystal.........the whisker is springy so the pressure  it not so great or it will pass ac which we cant hear on an earphone.......all that is what I have been told over the years.........now comes this story of a real cat's whisker from someone  that I have known a long time and doesn't engage in BS or Paul Bunyon stories etc.........I tried 3 different real cat's whiskers and none would conduct.
#8
Technical Corner / Crystal set cat's whisker
June 14, 2016, 03:49:49 PM
Another over 60 radio buddy and I have been discussing crystal sets and remembering our first one when we were kids etc........here is where the trolley leaves the rails..........he swears that a living cat's whisker can be used for the crystal sets whisker which is usually fine springy wire.......I told him that I didn't think a living cats whisker would conduct and he said that his father who was a double E told him that there was a nerve that ran down the center of the whisker that would conduct and that the two of them made a crystal set using a whisker from the neighbors cat........it was touchy to run but did work.........I find that hard to believe.......anyone else ever heard about using a living cats whisker on a crystal set?
Thanks
NS
#9
My suggestion is to go to a SF forum and state your case......who you are.....what you do........etc............spec-ops folks are kinda leary these days so you might have to jump through a couple of hoops...........I will search the naval end and see if any SEAL has the manual.
NS
#10
General Discussion / Re: FNG checking in
August 02, 2015, 02:56:39 PM
Hello Hank
   I am still a pretty new guy too.......my radio is an 857 and I have an antenna farm.:)
NS
#11
Technical Corner / Re: My BitX20 Choice.
June 27, 2015, 11:10:25 PM
Gil......what is the latest on chasing down the problem?
#12
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/05/the-largest-grocer-in-the-texas-is-now-rationing-eggs/

"And with each wrinkle of bad news, the idea of a national egg shortage, which was once uttered as though it were a mere apocalyptic musing, is suddenly looking like a real possibility."

#13
Tactical Corner / Re: What is this all about?
June 02, 2015, 01:28:53 PM
This is what "they" say is going on......doesn't make me feel any better about the situation.




http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150602/us--fbi_surveillance_flights-e2320f0d2a.html
#15
When my Ham Buddy and I got our AmEx  tickets a couple years ago we each bought new antennas . His was a vert GAP......just an alumn pole sticking up but the dreaded HOA letter came and he had to take it down...........so he hinged it about 4 feet up and kept it down in daylight and cranked it up when it got dark........that got old quick so he started using it laid down............it worked just fine......he has used it as a horizontal vertical........he has worked all states.....South America.....Africa....Europe....Australia etc.........remember his antenna "height" is 4 feet.......local Hams have trouble believing him and stop in to see the lay down vertical and check his logs.......my conclusion is that there is still things to be learned about antennas.