[MilCom] My station set up/ Flaming

[SCOTT BAUER]

 Hi Ken,

 Thank you for the kind note. By habit I accidentally sent my complaint to this
group as well. The people here are just great. I apologize for sending it here.

 Thanks Ken. Have a great day.

 Scott



> On 11/03/2021 11:55 AM Ken <rfinder1 at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello Scott:
> 
> Very nice for you to share with us your equipment setup.  As a hobby 
> there's a wide variety of participants and equipment being utilized.  I 
> personally have not spent any time on HF monitoring and primarily 
> concentrate on aero VHF and military aero related UHF radio 
> communications with a very modest setup.
> 
> It was good to read that your complaint was with another list group and 
> not here on the milcom group. There's really just a handful of hobbyists 
> who post their monitoring logs to this group on a regular basis.  I had 
> hoped we would see more during the COVID lock down, but that didn't happen.
> 
> Please continue to post your logs, I know that I personally appreciate 
> your efforts!
> 
> Ken
> Springfield MA Monitoring Area
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/2/2021 7:55 PM, SCOTT BAUER wrote:
> > Hello my fellow comrades
> >
> > It has been a while and a few people have been asking what type gear I use here.
> > My first thought would be to say the antennae is the first & upmost part of any listening
> > set-up.
> >
> > I have a 50ft tower on my property. Mounted upon it is a Force-12 multi-monobander
> > with a 40 meter rotatable dipole attached.
> >
> > A few feet below the beam is an Alpha Delta LB DX mounted in the inverted V configuration.
> > This not only is my 40-160 meter Amateur radio transmit antenna, its also my main receive
> > antenna for Milcomms & SWL. Highly recommended. It can hear worldwide depending on
> > conditions of course.
> >
> > I am currently using 2 Ten Tec RX-350 as my main listening radios. On the side I run 6
> > Yaesu FRG-100. These I keep running in the background listening on less active frequencies.
> >
> > For UHF/ VHF I am in a less than ideal situation. My antenna is not high enough to get good
> > 2-way comms. I have been thinking for way to long about mounting  a new discone onto
> > my tower as I am able to receive Aircraft in the air but not the ground stations at this time.
> > I am just to far beyond the curvature of the earth to hear them.
> >
> > The UHF/VHF receivers are 4 Icom IC-R100 & 2 Realistic PRO-2006 scanners.
> >
> >
> > With all of this gear running in one small room it gets very loud. At Times I may get a callsign
> > or 2 wrong. It does not bother me but apparently there is a  person here on Military Scan
> > that thinks differently. What I am sharing is my log. Nothing else. The people that dont like
> > it dont have to read it. Just hit the delete button.  I am open to discussion in an adult manner
> > as well. However I dont take a lot of Bull Shit. I dont have to post my log here and I will leave
> > if this continues.
> >
> > Scott  FM19pb
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________
> > MilCom mailing list
> > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milcom
> > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> > Post: mailto:MilCom at mailman.qth.net
> >
> > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> MilCom mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milcom
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:MilCom at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html