It doesn't allways take a whole lot of power!

[Grogan]

I was on 38 lsb for a while on Sat and Sun this weekend. I am up early and listening to the skip and also late Sunday afternoon. A lot of good sounding stations fron Canada Chiago and Florida etc. Most sounding real good. I was olny running 50 to 70 watts topps and got a lot of good reports. I also had three stations said I sounded good fron Ontario Canada (from New Jersey) and I looked and didn't have the box on. Low power 2 watts Lots of nice stations with good ears I might add.

 

[Atlasta]

When conditions are right and the frequency is quiet, you can talk a long way on just a little power.

I pulled down my little JC Penny 23 Channel mobile the other day and hooked it up just for fun... was having a nice little barefoot chat with a guy on 19- then he tells me he's in Florida. I'm in Arizona.

It's nice when it happens.

 

[space cowboy]

It doesn't allways take a whole lot of power!.

at least you admit it sometimes does.

 

[222DBFL]

Shoot, I conditions here were rough getting out today, no heat, no contact lol. Been hearing a bunch, but gotta turn on the heat to get a call back, lotta big stations out there today as well!!

 

[Grogan]

at least you admit it sometimes does.

There are some special contacts you just don't want to miss!!!:

 

[vkrules]

Band is still full of surprises even when conditions aren't the best.Was having a chat with a local on 32 lsb running 12 watts and a 5/8 on Saturday when a station broke in, He was in Vancouver And I' m in Brisbane. Also worked France long path this morning But that was with 4 elements and some power.

 

[Tallman]

My first ever skip contact was done with a Radio Shack TRC-47 on SSB from my house. I had a 5/8 wave RS antenna mounted on my house that had a tin roof. Early morning noise levels were low and talked to two operators. One in Alabama and the other in Florida.
Absolutely bare foot radio.

 

[357magnum]

Circa 1970 a $ 29 TRC -9 3 ch Realistic , $ $15 1/4 wave ground plane $15 power supply I talked to SC on ch 6 I been hooked ever since . The bad thing was changing crystals when I got bored with the channels that I was using ! lol<More audio>

 

[w9cll]

Fun part to that was reversing the crysstals, put the TX one on the RX slot and vice versa.

 

[coolhandluke]

I couldn't agree with you more! I run a lincoln on 10 meter stock wattage
have know problem making contacts, they'll tell me my signal isn't very good
but my audio is....running a imaxx 2000 about 54 FT....

 

[Eastside]

I am always making contacts on low power......I'm using my General Radiotelephone Super MC-11 A i got it set to key 2 watts and swing to 10 watts and I make contacts all the time......and get good reports on the quality of the audio.....being on a beam 70ft helps too.......the MC-11 uses those short fat compactron tubes and it has great audio.

 

[357magnum]

Your right W9 , I still have a set of big 5 watt RS walkie talkies that have crystals set up that way . Thanks for the memories an the reminder now I have to dig them out an play with them . They actually use to work well using the RS amplified mic .

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

I used to routinely work into Europe with 1 watt pep on SSB and get good reports doing it. One watt is only 3 S-units or so down from 100 watts and if a 100 watt signal is S-9 or better than your 1 watt signal will be at least S-7. Great fun at 1 watt and if it gets rough bump it up another 20 dB to 100 watts.

 

[CbRadiosPRONTO]

T U R N I T U P

Sorry, just can't control myself. If it's there, might as well use it. Can't take it with you when you go.


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[Captain Kilowatt]

T U R N I T U P

Sorry, just can't control myself. If it's there, might as well use it. Can't take it with you when you go.


CbRadiosPRONTO

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