I would love to do something like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yyS5qm60gk
But the only mountains around here are these...
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I would love to do something like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yyS5qm60gk
But the only mountains around here are these...
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Chris.... make an excuse to come to Tucson..... mountaintopping is fun
As soon as my sisters wedding is over in October, Kenny and I are planning some serious road trips. I have a Jeep, and a tent, and by God I do plan to use them extremely soon!!!!
See if you can get permission to set up a rooftop DXpedition on one of those buildings.
A trip up to Mt Lemmon would blow his mind. We used to do keggers there.Quote:
Originally Posted by W7XF
Broadcasting?
I did one better. I MOVED to a mountaintop so I can VHF Contest from home!
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Originally Posted by NA4BH
More like broadchasing.
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Originally Posted by N8YX
One of our locals has a repeater on top of the tallest. I wonder if he'd bring me up there?...
There's a phrase that's older than dirt; it doesn't hurt to ask. There is a catch though, mountains, towers and tall buildings aren't called vertical real estate for nothing; you'll be smack dab in the middle of an intense RF field generated by an antenna farm. RF exposure limits pertain to receivers more than to you, you'll need bandpass filters to get rid of intermod that would render the effort futile. It seems like the best products come from Canada, a diplexer made to my specs by Tin Lee works better than expected but what you need are bandpass filters and my DCI-146-4H I still have kicking around somewhere fixed a knotty pager problem for me quick and easy. When I set up my first station 2M was crap from end to end thanks to a 250W Pager a block away. That filter killed it clean and solved my problem. I quickly discovered the best mountain tops were antenna farms, brought the filter along and again it was clear sailing. They have a filter for whatever ails you, here are the stock Amateur filters submitted for your approval... in The RF Twilight Zone.
http://www.dci.ca/?Section=Products&SubSection=Amateur
When you get to the roof it just might look something like this familiar building so be a boy scout and be prepared.
I use one of the DCI Dualband filters in the Town Car, cuz I was just BLASTED by Pagers whenever I drove through EL Cajon with my new Icom IC-2720H. It was absolutely WORTHLESS. Nevermind that the Filter cost almost as much as the Radio did. It Fixed the problem forever!
Prepared, as in "wear a parachute."Quote:
Originally Posted by kb2vxa
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Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
And lead-lined underwear.
Pat....Crest is on a SPEED BUMP!!!!!Not a mountain.Quote:
Originally Posted by wa6mhz
Exactly where I'd have Chris go. Sans keg, however.Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
Kegs are kind of big and cumbersome. Cooler on wheels. Strap the batteries on top.
I've often had to drag a cooler and a large Samsonite tackle box on wheels for hundreds of yards to get to the center of a peninsula to do some fishing from a specific spot on the lake. -Now you need a boat to get to it due to all the rain we've had for the past 2 months.
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Its funny you mention that. I just returned from the radio supply store and I had my Baofeng with me. On the way home I was listening to my local repeater and the signal was absolutely 100% clean. As I started my incline over the Houston shipping channel bridge I noticed the higher I got the more the signal dropped out. By the time I got to the top it was skipping out and a lot of static and just a bunch or garble. Then as I declined on the other side, the signal started to come back, and by the time I was back on ground level it was back to being crystal clear. It was the strangest thing I've noticed yet.
Boats are good, especially when you have a good reason; and yours qualifies. You may be able to get FEMA to pay for it. I wonder if formaldehyde floats?Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
Formaldehyde disperses in water.
Well, there you go.
I thought you kept your frogs alive. :irked:Quote:
Originally Posted by KG4CGC
When was a kid, I made bug frames. Knock the bugs out with a little chloroform, stick the needles in them and mount then on the board, inject formaldehyde gas into the frame and seal. That would kill them while they were out.Quote:
Originally Posted by WØTKX
Store in garage then leave in the Sun for a day before hanging on wall.
Sounds like what that mean old lady down the street tried to do with us when we were kids.
"As I started my incline over the Houston shipping channel bridge I noticed the higher I got the more the signal dropped out."
1) If it was a steel lattice structure it could have caused reflections resulting in multipath reception. When two or more signals of the same frequency arrive out of phase they tend to cancel each other, could have been severe "picket fencing". But more likely...
2) Bridges too are vertical real estate, you could have been getting creamed by strong signals desensitizing your receiver.
Once upon a time there was a 2M repeater on the George Washington Bridge affectionately known as the Gee Dub, the owner went SK and in time the controller got stuck. 24/7/365 dead carrier, no ID and no way to stop it, nobody knew where in that maze of steel it was. Eventually it was found and taken down, meanwhile in the NYC/NNJ metro area the frequency was useless.
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This is the bridge.
You should have been singing this as you went over the bridge. It's like having the password for WIFI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfi2ts2s7dc
I think I've flown under that bridge.
Is that the bridge on I610 down by Laporte fwy?
I was just down there and crossed that bridge the day before yesterday in the big truck at rush hour. I LOVE the view from atop it. I've never had good coverage on that thing on V/UHF. Dont know what its made of so cant give u a reason but I can definitely verify the effects
That's funny. A friend of mine flew his plane through the arches in St Louis. The FAA has been looking for him for years. Too bad, he's dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
That's what taping the tail number is all about. Or is it the hokie pokie?Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
He worked for the FAA, and was drunk.......... Flying......Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
Oooops. Not a good mix. Hopefully he wasn't an AI.Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
No, he didn't believe in AI (artificial insemination), he was Catholic.
I thought Catholics had God for a copilot.Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
Nah, bartender. That's why they say (during tequila shots) "Oh GOD that burns".Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
I think I said the same thing the first time a lit a fart in the bathtub.Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
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Speaking of farts in bathtubs, where's da Pope?
Farting in the bathtub. Youse got a problem widdat?Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
Da Pope
Why, no. No I don't. Isn't that considered a blessed event?Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
The external flame of hope