[ARC5] BC 453 request - ham radio

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Thu Oct 31 15:00:41 EDT 2019


On 31 Oct 2019 at 11:39, kn7sfz wrote:

> And RF pollution

Yes. I have a constant battle here to keep that which is near me down to a reasonable level. 
My favorite Elmer, Woody Davey W7CJB, who was first licensed in the 1930s, told me once 
that the overall noise level had risen very significantly since the 1930s, mainly due to REA.

> in the city has raised the noise floor to S9, so weak signal work is out of the 
> question....sigh....

Yes.

> My ARC5 stuff still provides some neat eye candy tho.....

...and I still use one or two pieces of mine on the air at times...

Ken W7EKB


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