[Azham] Antenna Construction, etc. An Opportunity?

[gil smith]

Hi Brian:

I saw your post on azham.  This is only somewhat related, since I am not a 
ham, but I am on the azham list to keep up with hamfest info etc.  I am 
located in NE Mesa (Power/Brown).

I am the moderator for the greenkeys list at qth.net, which, if I recall 
correctly, you previously did.

Anyway, I am an electrical engineer, and I collect tty machines, which is 
why I am into greenkeys.  I have not really gotten into the rtty side of 
things too much.  I have an HF tranceiver (with which I can only receive, 
of course), and with a random-length wire antenna on the roof I have poked 
around looking for rtty signals.  Not a lot of activity out there that I 
can receive, but it is kinda fun.  One of these days I may go for my ham 
license, but I have too much on my plate at the moment.

The greenkeys folks periodically try to get more rtty activity going using 
real machines, but it never seems to take off much.  This is partly due to 
there being only about 280 folks on greenkeys, and even less that have rtty 
equipment.

One cool thing lately is an rtty audio stream that a fellow is sending over 
the internet, with news feed items.  We can "receive" it using winamp or 
media player on a pc, and get clean fade-free audio.  I take the audio from 
the pc, feed it to my Dovetron TU, then into a tty connection box that I 
designed, and then drive my M15 or M33.  Not exactly rtty, but fun anyway 
-- it's nice to just have a decent "signal."

Anyway, thought I would touch base with you, especially since you are in 
the area.  Where exactly is your antenna farm property located?  Looks like 
you have quite a nice setup there.

If you are interested, you can see my (still quite incomplete) tty stuff at:
http://www.baudot.net/

regards,

gil smith



At 03:25 PM 2/19/2005, you wrote:
>I just put back online some pictures from the antenna
>farm in Pinal County -
>http://members.cox.net/bshort4/station/index.html
>
>Unlike my Tempe home, there is very little noise
>and no antenna limitations!  It is about 25 mi from
>Casa Grande and 40 mi from central Phoenix.
>
>There are many other things which could be erected
>as well and I have the materials including a brand new
>3 el 40m beam, 80m 4-square, etc.
>
>Because of 4 burglaries at the property some time
>ago, I backed away and have been in a "rebuilding"
>phase of evaluating purpose and vision.
>
>I have interests in ATV, SSTV, RTTY, QRP, SWL,
>scanning, etc etc.
>
>I have been interested in DX and contests -
>http://members.cox.net/bshort4/contest/index.htm
>http://members.cox.net/bshort4/contest/awards/index.html
>
>I have also done some VLF and Lowfer listening
>and also acquired a high quality rigid solid 4m dish
>  for microwave or possibly radio astronomy work, perhaps.
>
>Anyway, I am putting out a call to anyone who might
>want to collaborate on positive endeavors utilizing
>these modest resources.
>
>I see a lot of potential, but could benefit from
>cooperation with others of similar interests.
>
>--
>73, Brian (K7ON)
>http://members.cox.net/bshort4/
>
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