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Mocassion
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 4:28 pm: | 
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Just Got this Maco 5/8th Wave Antenna on a 36 ft push up pole. Running my skipper 300 and i have a rci 2980 I think i have a bad A** Base Station what do yall think? |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 10:30 pm: |
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Run of the mill,just like mine,DX2517,boomer 400 at 404 watts,PDLII antenna and I'm directional.Get on channel 6 now they got some REAL BAD A** stations on there. |
ss8541
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 10:32 pm: |
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your 5/8th wave, 2980, and skipper 300 keeps tearing up my t.v. here at the nc/sc border. so what does this tell you? enjoy, you have a nice set-up. |
Taz
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 11:41 pm: |
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no, i think its in the mud
How about my moonraker4 at 40 feet with my klv-550 driving my suzie pushing 12k on the bird? |
Marconi
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 12:21 am: |
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What did he say? |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 9:35 am: |
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Mocassion, you seems to have a very good station, all sounds good,how old is the Spipper is it a blueface kind?? you enjoy it, sometime come to 27385 and give me a yell unit 536 LOL |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 9:35 am: |
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Ah heck you guys dont know what bad is When i turn on MY transmitter the state of Florida goes BLACK..... thats bad ...LOL |
Ncrebel
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 9:45 am: |
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Mercey,makes us weak barefooted mobils hooked to an Antron 99 feel like the little people.Oh my. |
Kb5lpa
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 11:44 am: |
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How far have you talked with that set up?? Interested to know.
73 de KB5LPA |
Taz
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 2:48 pm: |
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When I keydown my 12k the whole southern united states is goes out. Those rolling blackouts are from me. |
Wildbill
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 3:07 pm: |
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That's a beginners setup, get yourself a pair of 2290's driving 8-2879's into a pair of 3cx3000's and then ask me if we think you're BAD. Wildbill |
Alsworld
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 8:05 pm: |
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Mocassion, sounds like a sweet setup for sure.
Ncrebel, man don't cut yourself short. You can talk a lond way on a barefoot station with that Antron 99. There will come a time where you'll be all over the place and just smiling. There is a beauty to DXing barefoot.
Alsworld |
Ncrebel
| | Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 10:23 am: |
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Yep thats true...power is nice but I like seeing how far I can get out barefoot. |
HoosierCardinal
| | Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 1:07 pm: |
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This power deal is all 100% egos IMHO... |
Taz
| | Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 4:55 pm: |
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How about my 12k driving my 4- 3CX20000A7'S
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TAZ |
Alsworld
| | Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 6:53 pm: |
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Hey Taz, don't aim that antenna at the moon or you might just blow it up! LOL! On the other hand, just think...you could aim it at your pesky neighbor and cook him like a microwave oven....No more problems (j/k of course!)
Alsworld |
Tom Shaw
| | Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 8:33 pm: |
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Hey Bruce,
Ever heard of 4-1000A's..Now a pair of those old boys is bad........813's aint to shabby either...Tom Shaw |
Taz
| | Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 9:10 pm: |
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haha
no doubt Alsworld
with that kind of power I would kill myself and everything in the area of probly 100 feet of the tower. I could always run coax under the street and into the farm feild behind my house! plenty of room there for a HUGE tower.
Taz |
bullet/151 southern Indiana
| | Posted on Friday, September 20, 2002 - 4:28 am: |
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sounds like a real nice 1st station. im sure your going to enjoy it greatly as you make more and more contacts over time.
i have what i deem as a fair station not a bada$$ one though. need a larger amp for that...anyone build large ceramic amps on here?
ive got a colliner array/rg 9913 at 85ft "to the top" thats the best vertical antenna ive used to date anyway.
a Blackhawk six element quad/ham4/lmr600 on a 25ft test tower thats the tightest beam ive ever used thusfar. it has 100 feet of tower reserved for its final resting place if i ever get time to
finish the job.
alfa delta 4 pos. switch box,homemade dummy load,2 bird meters one in forward mode the other in reflected.i also have a dosy tc and a struthers meter.
2,ranger 2950dx's,galaxy saturn modified much like a 2517,saturn turbo,older 2950,cobra 142gtl
tricked out.
2 D&A phantom amps, with old tubes.....
silver/nite k eagles,tug and tup d104's,echo max 2000
ive got a nice setup just low powered. |
bruce
| | Posted on Friday, September 20, 2002 - 7:48 am: |
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Tom i've used BOTH right now my amp used 3 -811's and had 813's in a old WW2 transmitter i had back 30 years ago. The old 829B tubes ( The newer ver of this tube is called a 5894 and will interchange ) I built a dozen amps using them some with 4 tubes they were cheep in thoes days.My big amp was in 1970 my MOONBOUNCE amp a pair of 4cx250b's push-pull tuned line input and output would PUT OUT 1000 watts on 2 meters CW. Running it at the " full Gallon ' input about 800 watts out into 4 17 elm KLM beams i could hear my eccos off the moon using a reciver with a NF .4db @ BW 100 hz CW. But my 811 amp has for the most part sat in the box i realy dont need anything over 100 watts. In the car i run FM and built a class C amp for that mode it will run about 300 watts out at 29.6 on fm but even on that i keep it idled back to about 80-100 it just gets too hot even fan cooled. Next project is to get my antennas to go from 1.6 to 54 mhz so far I have too much interaction between them and the SWR stayes above 2/1 across the bands. No TVI no problems with the others around here just the way i like it.
Bruce |
HoosierCardinal
| | Posted on Friday, September 20, 2002 - 4:36 pm: |
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Bullett.
Some of that stuff is some of the stuff i used to own.
Kudos on the old 142GTL great rig.
for me i think 1500 to 2k is enough to get out of the mud but there are some on here that will tell me "thats mudduck" but hey, ask me if i care and ill say "oh well"...... LOL! |
bullet/151 southern Indiana
| | Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 2:37 am: |
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hoosiercardinal,
i know what your saying,i have had very good luck
with contacts using my old phantom amps. they will only do 1kw with "fresh" tubes.(bird 43 watts)
the tubes in mine are tired, its out put is around 300 bird watts and around 600 watts on the dosey test center and i talk along with some fellas running more wattage but less antenna.
the 142 is a nice older rig i like them alot.
since the number of local cbers here seem to be dropping ive been reaching out farther to communicate and shooting more skip,and some of those boys run some big stuff. |
Allagator
| | Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 5:58 pm: |
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hey a freind of mine used my set up to talk to some guy in jamaca and im just running a connex 3300 with a maverick 250 !!!!!!!
what do ya think
allagator |
HoosierCardinal
| | Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 7:58 pm: |
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Well i did have a 12 tuber and mine had fresh tubes but man, 12 tubes to get 1 KW? Sheesh thats a lot of $$$ in tubes if they all go bad!!
Back in the mid 1970s they were what, about 2 dollars a tube and now ummmmm, $50.00 a piece?? :-( |
bullet/151 southern Indiana
| | Posted on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 11:35 am: |
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hoosier,
yea,i hear you! im going to re tube one and most likly sell the other and buy a sb220 it will handle my turbo and if i ever decide to go for a big ceramic it will make a awesome driver.(pipe dreams)
allagator,
sound 10-8 to me. |
707
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2002 - 4:35 pm: |
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Well, ya'll know I like the vintage gear...
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HoosierCardinal
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 3:13 am: |
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707.. LOL!!!!
Bullett.
I know about the retube deal..
I had a 10 tuber phantom once that i had to get retubed. well i had my tech retube it using i -THINK- they were 24lq6 tubes... They were a heck of a lot cheaper than the 6lq6 they used in the amp. $150.00 VS $500.00!!! All he did was change the socket layout to fit the 24s. it worked very well until i sold it. |
707
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 5:59 pm: |
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Bigbob
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 6:47 pm: |
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I think we gave poor old moccasin a complex he ain't been back,come on back son we was just funnin ya,ya really do have a kick b u tt station. |
Alsworld
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 8:26 pm: |
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Heck Bigbob, it's you that scares me! I thought you were joking about that million watt station until I saw this picture. hmmm... now I get it. You have hired 707 and look at what you have produced in the secret kitchen. Impressive no doubt. I can see it now at NASA:
"Endeavor, this is Houston. We are having some interference down here. Is everything okay up there? Over"
"Houston, this is Endeavor. No worries, we were just doing a radio check for Bigbob and man did he walk all over you guys! I thought you said we were in a radio dead zone, over".
And between one NASA radio tech to another, "wish I had one of them big radios".
hehehe
Alsworld |
Taz
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 8:55 pm: |
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Uh oh im outta here |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 9:01 pm: |
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Hey Alsworld,you're a real card,haw,haw.How about this same wattage but E.L.F.transmitter,I've heard you can transmit directly into the ground with one of these and go world-wide. |
707
| | Posted on Friday, September 27, 2002 - 12:56 pm: |
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well, I finally got approval to put my beam up....
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Bigbob
| | Posted on Friday, September 27, 2002 - 6:14 pm: |
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Hey 707 don't you think it's a might puny for line o' sight? |
Taz
| | Posted on Friday, September 27, 2002 - 9:32 pm: |
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take a look at the other post i made named I think Im bad, what do yall think. Mine would crush that puny thing from 0.02mhx to 2ghz. |
707
| | Posted on Saturday, September 28, 2002 - 12:55 pm: |
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he he...Taz thought it was puny til I pointed out the boom length of 100', sitting at 180' haat...he he |
Taz
| | Posted on Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 12:53 am: |
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hehe, bad beam |
