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Anyone near Uxbridge, MA?
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I can probably get to you on 2 meters. i won't be around for the weekend but we should try some night.
cockpitbob
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This weekend is Field Day (2:00pm sat to 5:00pm Sun). You should hear a ton of activity.
cockpitbob
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That would be my guess. I wanted to check in to a couple Sunday pm nets but I was so beat-up from FD that I fell asleep on the couch with the TV onResidual field day energy.
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cockpitbob
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The What is Ham Radio? thread is a good place to start.
Cool. Well I guess I had a VERY basic idea. Figured there'd be a few nay sayers in that thread.
My enviroment is probably a bit too suburbanish for ham but I bet it could still be usefull. I see it more of a rural tool. No?
Different frequency bands work better in different environments and atmospheric conditions. What we're talking about is basically line of sight, but signals bounce off things.. like buildings and meteors.
There are really tall buildings in the city that you have line of sight to from very far away.... Id be willing to bet there are repeaters on more than a few.
I live in a valley in the woods surrounded by trees. If you dont have flat, you compensate with tall... Hence the tower.
Like old school TV. VHF/UHF = local. Shortwave radio = global.
When atmospheric conditions are just right vhf/uhf can bounce really far between layers of the atmosphere like a stone skipping on the water.
Theres plenty to do with radio in any environment... You might just have to get creative.
There are really tall buildings in the city that you have line of sight to from very far away.... Id be willing to bet there are repeaters on more than a few.
I live in a valley in the woods surrounded by trees. If you dont have flat, you compensate with tall... Hence the tower.
Like old school TV. VHF/UHF = local. Shortwave radio = global.
When atmospheric conditions are just right vhf/uhf can bounce really far between layers of the atmosphere like a stone skipping on the water.
Theres plenty to do with radio in any environment... You might just have to get creative.
cockpitbob
NES Member
Don't worry about it. You'll fit right in with us here.
Ouch!!!!!
It got better. I went through about 6 connectors trying to fix that mistake, finally got a couple PL259s on the ends and coupled them together... that was good for about a week, I was all proud of myself and whatnot... then I look out the window and notice "Hey, all that silicon tape I wrapped that coupler with looks awful shiny" so I went out and verified... yep, definitely melted... So I drove out to You Do It electronics and bought a handful of N type connectors, came home, cut the 259s off and then replaced them with Ns. "Hmm, that's odd, both these connectors are male and both ends of the coupler are male as well. Fantastic" .... back to 259s. If it melts again, I quit. Not sure if it's the sun that melted the tape or one of the connections.
