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    5 watts!!!!

    Was watching the State of the Union while running WSPR....

    Guess who showed up? 5 watts....
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    So there I was, totally naked. With only a rubber hose and a stuffed animal...

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    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?
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    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?
    I greased my antenna last Sunday.

    To make it slide over the tree branches.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    DOG! No way!
    Me too.
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    So there I was, totally naked. With only a rubber hose and a stuffed animal...

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    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.
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    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.

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    Moving on, my posts are not helpful

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    Way too cool

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post


    I greased my antenna last Sunday.

    To make it slide over the tree branches.
    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".



    Quote Originally Posted by WZ7U View Post
    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.
    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.

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