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

[KA8VIT]

I was able to work AA0II Jason barely...

N4ZPT and had a nice chat...

and KC0IFQ until the bad went down again.

Have "seen" you in a while Jerry.

73

Bill  KA8VIT

Jerry W wrote:
> 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 
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Bill Chaikin, KA8VIT
USS COD Amateur Radio Club - W8COD
WW2 Submarine USS COD SS-224 (NECO)

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