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John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote in 
news:7f34569u76jp5tnjuv67bqkgq36rchniat@4ax.com:

> For which ham wouldn't have helped.
> First responders were and are in a different service category.
> 
> 

What great fun!  The controversy about ham radio got me looking around for 
remote receivers across the planet I could control and play with.  It's 
2AM, suddenly!  I've been using an Icom 706 receiver at a ham's house in 
UK, who is, I'm sure, quite asleep but leaves his receiver on 24/7 as many 
do.  I threw up a wire over a tree limb out in the dark and ran a little 
coax into my ham station tuned for 20 meters to see if I could hear myself 
across the Atlantic.  That got me to wondering if I could make a PSK31 data 
contact to myself with such a horrible antenna, so had to jury-rig an audio 
cable into the mic jack of my little Yaesu mobile rig, the first rig I 
stumbled upon for this quickie project.

Not only could I hear myself in Sussex, other stations, hearing someone 
knew on started calling me about 11PM and I've been on the air ever since!  
My transmitter running about 30 watts to a 16' piece of wire thrown over a 
dead tree limb (insulator??) about 25' up and the ground plane the metal 
skin of my mobile home which has 18 screwed-in hurricane anchors.  The 
furthest stations I worked were in the Ural Mountains of Russia and one 
station in India!  Not bad on 30 watts of Phase Shift Keyed 31Hz bandwidth 
(PSK31) tones fleaclipped to a mic jack hanging apart....(c;]

The crazy thing about this link was I was STILL using the 14.070Mhz USB 
receiver IN SUSSEX, UK!  Talk about SPACE DIVERSITY!  Way cool!.....

Anyone doesn't like ham radio can just suck eggs!.....

73 DE W4CSC....Charleston....er, ah, Sussex....er, ah, Earth!

-- 
iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships.

Larry

ET, call me!