Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away!

[Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Those intellicast pages are new for me and I looked at them and
strikestar. According to them I don't have much chance of doing anything
at all with my modest station. But I am going to try *anyway*. My
transmitter doesn't care about local noise so it's down to whether I can
somehow sort out signals from junk. And maybe dodge lightning!

I've recently started playing with some old technology just for fun and
when I got one of the radios up on the "big" antenna I was pleasantly
surprised how well it tamed conditions. My other receivers were hacking
and coughing with static (40 meters). I also have been playing with the
old transistor and tube broadcast receivers with loopstick or multiturn
loop antennas. Those just happened to wander in here when I wasn't
paying attention. Those are amazing in their ability to null out strong
local transmitters in favor of very weak distant ones. I'm taking notes
for 160 and the upcoming 600 meter ham allocation. Rock the radio (and
antenna) this way or that in three dimensions and all sorts of stations
come in or are nulled out. I couldn't identify all the stations I heard
because I am stuck with only English. I knew about those antennas but
had simply forgotten about them over the years. I have to see how much
those can help me on Top Band and maybe 80 meters. Maybe some of you may
already know and can give me some pointers.

See you in the Stew.

73,

Bill  KU8H

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