[Boatanchors] 11 meter amps ?

[Richard W. Solomon]

Thank you,
that's what we called corroboration ...

73, Dick, W1KSZ


-----Original Message-----
>From: "J. Dave Mayfield" <laptop at gwltd.com>
>Sent: Jan 13, 2010 7:35 PM
>To: "Richard W. Solomon" <w1ksz at earthlink.net>
>Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] 11 meter amps ?
>
>Years ago, My Dad, Brother and myself were flying our first RC plane, it 
>too was on 27mc, all of a sudden the plane went into a nose dive going 
>like a bat out of hell, and crashed right between two parked cars, at 
>this same time we saw a guy in a van driving by with a 102 inch whip on 
>the bumper and the mic in his hand! we knew what had happened.
>
>W9WRL
>
>Richard W. Solomon wrote:
>> Many moons ago, one of the locals took his kid to a model airplane
>> fest. All the other kids used 27 Mc R/C while his kid (who was
>> licensed) used 2 Meters for R/C.
>> While he waited, he decided to fire up the mobile and made several
>> Q's on 11 Meters. You can imagine the results !! Junior won.
>>
>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>   
>>> From: Bob Macklin <macklinbob at msn.com>
>>> Sent: Jan 12, 2010 10:52 PM
>>> To: "Drew P." <drewrailleur807 at yahoo.com>, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] 11 meter amps ?
>>>
>>> I was a novice in 57/58 so I could not use it.
>>>
>>> Bob Macklin
>>> K5MYJ
>>> Seattle, Wa.
>>> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Drew P." <drewrailleur807 at yahoo.com>
>>> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:44 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] 11 meter amps ?
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Ian wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "As the sunspot cycle improves propagation we will likely again have the
>>>> competition of the illegal operation by CBers on the 10 meter ham band."
>>>>
>>>> During the last sunspot cycle I heard only occasional incursions by 
>>>> "freebanders" into the bottom end of 10 meters. Though such operations are 
>>>> illegal, those that I heard did not seem to be interfering with legitimate 
>>>> users (but it is still illegal).  When the sunspots are up, that whole 
>>>> region of 24 to 30 MHz provides some very interesting listening.  I've 
>>>> heard freebanders running CW and FM, for example, along with international 
>>>> shortwave broadcasters, broadcast relays, telemetry and control signals, 
>>>> Tijuana Taxicabs, and all manner of other signals that defy 
>>>> categorization.
>>>>
>>>> "By the way, has anybody else who reads this list ever operated on 11
>>>> meters AS A HAM LEGALLY??"
>>>>
>>>> Not as a ham on 11 meters, but as a legal CB'er who happens to hold a ham 
>>>> license. I have occasionally used legal CB radios to communicate with my 
>>>> non-ham friends when driving or boating.  With our legal CB operations, 
>>>> one friend became interested enough in radio communications that he got 
>>>> his ham ticket.
>>>>
>>>> CB can serve as a gateway to amateur radio and these days we need all the 
>>>> new blood we can get.
>>>>
>>>> Drew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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