[SOC] Truly Amazing Radio!

[Dan W. Dooley]

Oh in reality the guy may have made a mistype on his antenna size.
Considering how we guys have this thing with "size" and the mention of six
inches, it just struck me as funny.

What guy would admit to only six inches anyhow?  I am talking about antenna
size, you know. LOL

I really haven't been able to hear the XW1 either.  Seems I'm not hearing a
whole lot of things for some reason right now.  Don't know why.  Antenna
seems to be working ok and trying three different radios, but I hear the
pileups bigtime.  All the stations calling are loud and clear and seem to be
all around me geographically, and they're reporting high - yeah I know -
signal reports but also making comments of hearing the DX real well.  And,
if I hear the DX station, he's pretty weak.  Also, I too have had a heck of
a lot of 'em come back to me on my first or second call.  Not now.  I'm
calling till I think I ought to be blue in the face and getting nadda.

Could something around Bedford be sucking the signals up before they can
reach my antenna?  Did somebody put up a RF screen shield around me?  Guess
I'd better drive around town and have a look.


Dan W. Dooley  WB5TKA  Bedford, Texas
    e-mail to: dandooley@pipeline.com
    Web site: http://www.qsl.net/wb9tka
May Goddes love blest ye alle
"Ancient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning."


----- Original Message -----
From: <AdamN7YA@aol.com>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Truly Amazing Radio!


> In a message dated 4/16/2002 3:29:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> dandooley@pipeline.com writes:
>
> << Some 4 land station just posted on the DX spot that he worked a ZD9
station
>  on 20 meters with, exact quote: "worked .5 watts, 6 inch dipole."
>   >>
> Theres been a lot of smart ass stuff going on there the last few days,
some 5
> lander posted he got an XW or something with 200w only 2 calls in and
> everyone ribbed him, i dont see how hard that could have been since the XW
> was working split and the guy may have just been on the freq he was tuning
> across, but i guess it tripped out the OT's who were in the battle for
hours.
>  I even prodded the guy with "screamed out window...first call!!"...nobody
> responded. maybe they didnt get my humor.
>    then again, not many folks do. :-)
>
>  I could barely copy the XW with esp, so i was in no hurry...and some
other
> yahoo got on the rx frequency and started asking who the station was...if
he
> would listen instead of being a lid he might get his answer...instead, he
got
> an earful from the cops, and the mess started all over again, lol.
> dxing...gotta love it!!
>