[Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands.

[K5MYJ]

I live in a senior apartment complex. No outside antennas. So I have a real 
40M dipole in my unit that is about 6" below the ceiling. I am on the 4th 
floor. It does not work bad.

Another problem with aging is your hand, sight,and hearing.

The computer can be used to both send and receive CW. I think it can decode 
CW that I can barely hear.

I have a SDR that I use as a panadapter. It lets me see where the activity 
is if there is any.

But I still use the tube stuff for actual operation.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McDonald, J Douglas" <jdmcdona at illinois.edu>
To: <Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands.


> But ... Hearing all this, I'm seriously considering renewing my license, 
> which expired in 1967 when I went to grad school
> (and had a huge (>$80000) budget for exotic hardware, including a PDP-8).
>
> I can't use high power because I live in an apartment and can't use a 
> "real" antenna for transmit. But I can
> set up a temporary one that will tune OK and take say 20 watts on CW (or 
> SSB or digital).
>
> So I could use these digital modes to DX. DX with tube gear is what  I'm 
> interested in.
>
> Doug McDonald ex WA5HDC, would now probably get WA9HDC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] The Silence of the Bands.
>
> A lot of those guys ought to be just as happy running a simulation program 
> so that they can pretend to be working lots of exotic stuff.
>
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