@Mott-The-Hoople saidKiss my ass you POS, hams are there when communications goes down, that is one of the reasons for amateur radio in the first place.
you will come out ahead if you quit wasting money on this and use it to support your family. that way you want have to beg a squall for the govt to do it.
I did that on 9-11, was fairly close to NYC and I had just gotten my ham rig working well and 9-11 hit, so I drove in and found Red Cross headquarters in Manhattan and volunteered and there were four or five rigs inside but the hams there were not very experienced so I set them up and we communicated to the real hero's on the streets with walkie talkies and I was there doing that and other chores for 24 hours.
When a hurricane hits, knocks power, hams usually have back up generators and they can communicate when nobody else can.
So suck a sour egg, which BTW you are in spades.
@mike69 saidIt was an ice pick, like a hoe straightened out and about 5 inches across and after sharpening it cut through the small stuff when the shovel didn't. So I used the wrong term, so sue me🙂
The things you kept saying each time were ridiculous, one ex~sharpen an ice pick, it already comes to a point, he’ll a flat head screwdriver and a hammer would be easier than a point, but a shovel would be pretty easy instead of stabbing your way through with tiny holes. First trees everywhere big roots then it’s just small ones beside your house that were simple. No way a ...[text shortened]... ither that or you’re retarded. I’ll help you one more time, flap your arms and fly the wires over.
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@sonhouse saidBs if that cut it a shovel with my boot hammering down on it will do much better. This is what it was designed for and a much larger amount of force being applied than your hand. Just admit you’re not truthful and full of crap. So these roots are so small a bs ice pick you’re not even being truthful about can slice through them and a shovel can’t,
It was an ice pick, like a hoe straightened out and about 5 inches across and after sharpening it cut through the small stuff when the shovel didn't. So I used the wrong term, so sue me🙂
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@congruent saidIt turned out I didn't need to drill, my ice chipper, I called it an ice pick by mistake🙂 and sharpened it and that took care of the small roots, inch wide and such.
In all honesty best to check on the technology forum rather than debates. Run through your initial question in the grok.
Nice work on the off-center fed dipole and that first contact with G0EVY—UK from 15 feet up with 100 watts is impressive, even with his monster Yagi pulling you in! Those full-size 80/40m beams are rare beasts, absolutely massive, and his 145-foot towe ...[text shortened]... that dipole up to 50 feet soon? That’ll make a huge difference. Also, what rig are you running? 73!
My next project after finishing soldering the ground shield wire, fat stuff, then will try to get the dipole up into the trees. Right it is about ten to fifteen feet off the ground, just first attempt to measure VSWR.
My Rig Expert did not like it🙂
I have a nice tuner but the weird part is with the antenna hooked up to the tuner and then to a power/SWR meter and then to the radio, 756 Pro3, I wasn't getting jack.
It was only till I ditched the tuner and power meter and went directly to the radio I started making contacts. Not sure why that was happening. I had issues of hum from contacts telling me there was a lot of hum during transmit so I gave the mic to a buddy, N3 SQG and I went home to listen, we got on the phone and tuned up to 7175 and I heard nothing even though he was maybe 20 miles away max.
That was before I dumped the tuner.
We did it again and this time we made contact and it showed he was transmitting hum so it was for sure the mic.. He gave me one to use in the meantime, a very old SM6 desk mic which someone had converted to 4 pin so I have to solder it back into the 8 pin from the old mic.
In the meantime I had purchased a cheapo Chinese HM36 and found it seems to have put the rig into scan mode. Later George, my buddy said it was probably the up or down button sticking and that is what it was, cut the connection to the up button and it worked fine so that got me on the air and didn't do too bad with contacts in England and west to North Dakota with that dipole barely off the ground🙂
Still have some work, got out the propane blowtorch and flux, hope I can solder to the top steel inside piece if not, to the copper outer coating. Would like to do both to make sure it will be a good ground even if the copper gets corroded.
Back when I was an Apollo tech, one of my jobs at Goddard was inspecting the ground rod system. OMG, that was a lesson! Inside I would test the signals with a scope and actually found signals coming up to 5 volts! So down outside and found problems with connections but the ground system there was incredible.
Inside, there was a ground bar of copper one inch thick and about four inches high going around the whole lab.
So in the basement the ground rods were not like my store bought ones, they were about 2 inches in diameter and dozens of holes around the copper pipe but that was not all, there was a system of a small pump that pumped some conductive fluid, maybe some salt solution but not table salt, anyway they pumped enough in it, very small flow, but it increased the conductivity some ten fold and there were maybe ten of them from one end of the building to the other. Now THAT was a ground🙂 They were BTW TEN feet long not eight.
@Sleepyguy saidIt was a learning experience for sure. The last time I did that at our old place, I wacked on it with a heavy sledge hammer till my arms fell off🙂. This time I found a youtube about how much easier it is if you use water in the hole so I dug about 8 inches deep and filled it with water and it went in a LOT faster but you have to pull it out of the ground so fresh water can fill the hole which was interesting because when I pulled out the rod from whatever depth it was in the water bubbled up some filling the hole with water so did that maybe a dozen times and with a bit of help from the sledge hammer I got the job done and another thing they showed me, bury the rod a couple inches under ground so if you happen to run a lawn mower over it the mower won't get wacked.
@sonhouse
Jeez, ask a simple question eh?
Good job on the ground rods, sonhouse. I hope you like your new place.
Didn't do that to the last one, sticking out about 6 inches.
That was an informative video.
@mike69 saidThe roots were not THAT small, a good inch and a half thick and that was just the small stuff, I had to dig around 5 or so times to find a site even that bereft of roots. The shovel was not very sharp and I realized after I sharpened the Ice chipper, which did the job, I could have sharpened the shovel but I just went with the chipper.
Bs if that cut it a shovel with my boot hammering down on it will do much better. This is what it was designed for and a much larger amount of force being applied than your hand. Just admit you’re not truthful and full of crap. So these roots are so small a bs ice pick you’re not even being truthful about can slice through them and a shovel can’t,
Live and loin.
And I was not trying to insult you in any way, sorry you took it like that.
@sonhouse saidOk, it’s over and pointless.
The roots were not THAT small, a good inch and a half thick and that was just the small stuff, I had to dig around 5 or so times to find a site even that bereft of roots. The shovel was not very sharp and I realized after I sharpened the Ice chipper, which did the job, I could have sharpened the shovel but I just went with the chipper.
Live and loin.
And I was not trying to insult you in any way, sorry you took it like that.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidOne day you may appreciate when you lose power and the ones who help you are us hams.
LMFAO...ignorant fool
So tell me what YOU are doing to help society, It sure as hell is not posting on RHP.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidObsolete. Wrong. The technology for hams is more incredible every year and WE are the ones providing communications when the lights go out, we can run battery powered transmitters, or mobile units in our cars, MUCH more advanced than say CB's with their limited number of frequencies they can transmit on, we have REALLY wide ranging set of frequencies which means we can get signals through where nobody else can unless you have access to a 100,000 watt transmitter.
obsolete technology
what am I doing for society? fighting against liberals and sex freaks
So once again puking out words in an area where you have ZERO knowledge.