[CW] Radio without antennas

[Fred Adsit]

Sad. Yes, club ops are routine in Russia. Here, although it is way too far 
from where I am at. there is a station at the Syracuse Museum of Science and 
Technology. I don't participate due to so many rules to follow (it is, after 
all, a museum, not a club). I don't know of any such clubs around here; cost 
and custodians and liabililty insurance pose huge barriers to doing all 
this.

I would like nothing more than to get back to a place where I could live 
with antennas and be beholden to no one, only being concerned about rare 
cases of interference, which I always found simplest to solve by backing off 
on power output. NAQCC is a good org to belong to if you support QRP 
operation. The one non-RF application I might try is a no-go. I cannot 
envision remotely operating a station at my relative's house.. too 
complicated, not even safe, and requires a second computer online, and that 
last item is not affordable.

Thanks for posting, Don. You are a legend, ya know. :-)  Always glad to read 
what you write, and to know what you are thinking.

73 - Fred
CW Forever

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D. Chester" <k4kyv at charter.net>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Radio without antennas


>>   One other possibility is joining a local HAM club * that has a 
>> clubhouse or
>> talking a local HAM club into getting a clubhouse, filled with equipment 
>> and
>> antennas.
>> * possibly a contest group that you can operate when there is no contest
>> -- 
>>    Ron  KA4INM
>
> I hear complaints about antenna restrictions ever more frequently. 
> Fortunately I live in the country with some acreage, so I can put up all 
> the towers and wire antennas I desire, and there is no-one to tell me what 
> I can and can't erect on my own property.  To me if I "owned" property but 
> had to live under all those nit-picking  restrictions, I would essentially 
> be a tenant, not a landowner. The only restrictions I face here is that I 
> have to keep my antennas out of the way of the farmer I lease cropland to.
>
> Regarding the ham club,  I'm not sure if it is still the situation in 
> present day Russia or not, but in the old Soviet Union, amateur radio 
> operation was almost entirely connected to radio clubs.  Very few Soviet 
> amateurs were able to have stations in their homes.  The local club had a 
> clubhouse with equipment and antennas, and the operators used the club 
> station's facilities under their own operator licence.  If the antenna 
> restrictions we have in the US to-day continue to increase in their 
> pervasiveness, that may be the future for amateur operation in this 
> country.
>
> Don k4kyv
>
>