Was watching the State of the Union while running WSPR....
Guess who showed up? 5 watts....
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Was watching the State of the Union while running WSPR....
Guess who showed up? 5 watts....
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DOG! No way!
See. When you grease the antenna, those low power electrons can slide off at super-speed, covering great distances. It all about overcoming resistance, and having the capacity to put aside your reluctance.
Who gnu?
Nice!
I had good luck with an HW-8 back in the day...though its control suite was lacking.
If I get the urge to play low-power HF, a TS-130V, TS-660 and FT-726R w/ HF module fitted are my choices. None does true break-in CW, though.
Wow Mike! 5 watts! Now that's going the distance. Kinda how I felt as a lowly CBer in the 70's being heard in Australia. Cool.
Way too cool :clap:
Antenna Grease also increases "Skin Effect", makes it easier for your radio signals to skin off yo' antenna into space, be blessed by the "Skip-Gods" and, be reflected back down into "DX-Land".
For me, it was Alaska and Russia (with 5 minutes of each other) and, "The Mini-Grass" (Hawaii). Back in the 70's, I could hear the Aussies but, they never heard me.
Wonder whatever became of "The Arrostock County Whipsters", a CB Club in the state of Maine; received dozens of Q-Cards from their members; betcha most of them moved on to Amateur Radio.
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I used wheel bearing grease.