[30m] 30 Meter PSK net 06-10-06

[Jerry W]

Very faint signals at 10.137 area around 15:00 UTC, could not copy 
anything.  Up the band a little I copied KC0IFQ having a few PSK31 
contacts, called him but no answer.  KC0IFQ was up and down a lot.  Sure 
wish I knew a way to radiate a good  signal out of my "concrete 
jungle".  I live in a high rise on the eighth floor of a thirteen story 
concrete building.  Walls are six inch solid concrete and floors and 
ceilings are six inch pre stressed concrete that have a few inches of 
empty space in the center.  No balcony, no outside antennas of any kind 
allowed.  So have the 30 meter dipole draped around my bedroom window, 
kind of a upside down "U" shape, the ends of the dipole lay on the floor 
for about fifteen inches each side of the window.  I am not on a 
"outside" wall on one of the corners, stuck in the middle of the 
building. The walls that has the windows on them is not six inch 
concrete but "chicken wire" overlay by brownstone bricks below the 
window. Think the window frames are anodized aluminum, double sealed 
glass.  So with the window that area is about three and half from the 
floor of wall.  I do not know of any way to put up "stealth" antenna 
outside being eight floors above the ground.  Also the HRA knows I have 
the radio, and have asked about putting up antennas, and have been 
flatly rejected.  So I know they check on the outside of my apartment .  
Would have to be "Spiderman" to put one up outside, HI!

Jerry  -  K0HZI