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Warning to freebanders
- Thread starter Sonwatcher
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DXman
Yes, that's 3100 degrees F. Nine yrs of hard work.
sloppy radios and amps
The ultimate cure is lengths of coax, removed from the offending station after everything else fails. The hard part is trying to convince them that they are running sloppy and splattering radios. I used to do the same in CB and Freeband several years ago, untill a local ham talked to me at a swap meet and convinced me I could run a clean station and talk anywhere in the world, He was right!!
Amazing what some cheap low pass filter will do in the coax. Or just properly matching the amps input and output really cuts down on harmonics. A cheap 300 watt mobile amp properly matched and filtered won't bother anyone usually. I have since moved into ham radio and have been constantly amazed at how little power and how clean you can run a station and talk around the world. I have 1500 watts here at the flip of a switch, and I have never needed it
Spend a little more time on the homemade antenna and put all the store bought antennas to shame. Or you can just keep screaming as load as possible and sound like crap
The ultimate cure is lengths of coax, removed from the offending station after everything else fails. The hard part is trying to convince them that they are running sloppy and splattering radios. I used to do the same in CB and Freeband several years ago, untill a local ham talked to me at a swap meet and convinced me I could run a clean station and talk anywhere in the world, He was right!!
Amazing what some cheap low pass filter will do in the coax. Or just properly matching the amps input and output really cuts down on harmonics. A cheap 300 watt mobile amp properly matched and filtered won't bother anyone usually. I have since moved into ham radio and have been constantly amazed at how little power and how clean you can run a station and talk around the world. I have 1500 watts here at the flip of a switch, and I have never needed it
Spend a little more time on the homemade antenna and put all the store bought antennas to shame. Or you can just keep screaming as load as possible and sound like crap
More hams should be like that not to care about other operaters unless they interfear with your legal operation.
we all could get along better.
I agree with you guys and thats cool. If I was causing problems to the ham band I would expect to get told about it and if I keep it up then reported to the FCC.
But I am very careful not to, my neighbor is a ham no more than 150ft away and I never interfear with him and he knows I freeband and dont care one way or another.
I second the Amen
also....jonmerritt has it right when saying
The ultimate cure is lengths of coax, removed from the offending station after everything else fails. The hard part is trying to convince them that they are running sloppy and splattering radios. I used to do the same in CB and Freeband several years ago, untill a local ham talked to me at a swap meet and convinced me I could run a clean station and talk anywhere in the world, He was right!!
Amazing what some cheap low pass filter will do in the coax. Or just properly matching the amps input and output really cuts down on harmonics. A cheap 300 watt mobile amp properly matched and filtered won't bother anyone usually. I have since moved into ham radio and have been constantly amazed at how little power and how clean you can run a station and talk around the world. I have 1500 watts here at the flip of a switch, and I have never needed it
Spend a little more time on the homemade antenna and put all the store bought antennas to shame. Or you can just keep screaming as load as possible and sound like crap
So if more of us understood as well as used these methods and mental proccesses..our hobby would be enjoyed much more
we all could get along better.
I agree with you guys and thats cool. If I was causing problems to the ham band I would expect to get told about it and if I keep it up then reported to the FCC.
But I am very careful not to, my neighbor is a ham no more than 150ft away and I never interfear with him and he knows I freeband and dont care one way or another.
I second the Amen
also....jonmerritt has it right when saying
The ultimate cure is lengths of coax, removed from the offending station after everything else fails. The hard part is trying to convince them that they are running sloppy and splattering radios. I used to do the same in CB and Freeband several years ago, untill a local ham talked to me at a swap meet and convinced me I could run a clean station and talk anywhere in the world, He was right!!
Amazing what some cheap low pass filter will do in the coax. Or just properly matching the amps input and output really cuts down on harmonics. A cheap 300 watt mobile amp properly matched and filtered won't bother anyone usually. I have since moved into ham radio and have been constantly amazed at how little power and how clean you can run a station and talk around the world. I have 1500 watts here at the flip of a switch, and I have never needed it
Spend a little more time on the homemade antenna and put all the store bought antennas to shame. Or you can just keep screaming as load as possible and sound like crap
So if more of us understood as well as used these methods and mental proccesses..our hobby would be enjoyed much more