[R-390] More Bull Roar/rock thread

Bob Camp ham at cq.nu
Thu Jul 5 09:14:10 EDT 2007


Hi

The simple answer is to put the rock in a sling shot. Something about  
slinging ....  comes to mind.

Bob


On Jul 5, 2007, at 2:45 AM, Dan Merz wrote:

> Hi ,  what kind of rock ? Does anyone know how hot a rock gets when  
> you
> throw it? There were a lot of small rocks (rocket.ets)  thrown  
> tonight that
> looked rather warm,  happy 4th, 29 days to go on this thread.  I  
> really
> should hook my 390 up again since moving but I hate to get up on  
> the roof in
> this hot weather to connect up my new antenna. So far I've been  
> using the
> ground shield on the TV cable coax to my radio room as an antenna  
> for the
> NRD-525.  The coax connects to nothing at the central box upstairs  
> where the
> incoming cable feed is distributed.  Signals seems a little weak,   
> probably
> about like a 20 ft length of wire. Maybe I should jumper the coax to a
> longer run that was put in by the builder to accomodate a tv dish  
> antenna.
> That would give be a least 50 feet more of coax shield to use as an  
> antenna.
> Dan.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Joel Richey
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 6:59 PM
> To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [R-390] More Bull Roar
>
> What is all this nonsense about an isolation xformer, like I have said
> before plug the the radio in and listen to it, I really think I  
> could give
> some of you guys a "rock" and you could creat a thread that could  
> on for a
> month..
>
> W2DBO said that..
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