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Biged
| | Posted on Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 3:48 pm: | 
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A friend of mine just told me a story the other day. An old man that lived in a little shack down the street from him always talked on the radio. But he didnt have a vehicle, so he walked everywhere he wanted to go. Here comes the funny part. He would walk down the road pushing a wheel barrow with his radio, his car battery, and his antenna clamped to the side of the wheelbarrow. He said he did that for years!!LOL |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 5:09 pm: |
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LOL. I once saw a guy up in Michigan that ran a garden tractor with a 40 channel radio mounted on the hood with a 102" antenna mounted on the fender. |
Highlander
| | Posted on Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 7:00 pm: |
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Ive run bicycle mobile before. |
Taz
| | Posted on Sunday, March 31, 2002 - 8:51 pm: |
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I put a radio on my bike, Got out pretty good.
102in steel whip
cobra25
car battery |
Mistah_B
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 8:29 am: |
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I've seen people with cbs on their mountain bikes, forklifts, and quads. It's kind of funny. Hams generally consider cbs "low tech". But with some ingenuity you'd be suprised with some of the things you could come up with. |
VisitTennguy
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 10:52 am: |
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I have a old 148fgtl that i carry in a backpack with a whip on the frame with a gelcell battery that pwrs the radio. I have talked DX TN to England on it. SSB. |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 11:25 am: |
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Went to a hamfest once and saw a ham with an antenna attached to his glasses (of course they were the big black plastic thick type! LOL). Saw another guy with an antenna complete with mini groundplane attached to a construction hardhat!!!! No offense to Bruce but some hams are wierd. |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 11:25 am: |
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Went to a hamfest once and saw a ham with an antenna attached to his glasses (of course they were the big black plastic thick type! LOL). Saw another guy with an antenna complete with mini groundplane attached to a construction hardhat!!!! No offense to Bruce but some hams are wierd. |
Taz
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 1:00 pm: |
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I think thats funny |
bruce
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 2:11 pm: |
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2990 MY SECRET IS OUT THAT WAS ME YOU FORGOT IM THE GUY WHO SHOWED UP AT THE ST PETE HAMFEST WITH A 10 METER HANHELD .... WITH A 5 FOOT WIP .... I DONE UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYONE THINKS I'M WERD....
even my shrink. |
Taz
| | Posted on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 2:44 pm: |
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I talked alot of skip from my radio bike. Once I hooked a 300 watt kicker to it, put two car batterys in the basket and was keying on people with it. I rode infront of my freinds house and his tv messed up. It was cool. Hehehaha |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 03, 2002 - 12:00 am: |
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats funny! Sorry about the doubled up post though.. Computor acts retarded sometimes i guess... LOL. Anywhoo, yes some hams are well,,,,,, ecentric! |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 12:07 pm: |
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TAZ I used to key on kids with rc cars they thought their toy was broke.hohoho |
Taz
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 10:13 pm: |
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I do that to, channel 19a or 7a are popular and with about 400 watts the car goes ALONG WAYS! |
bruce
| | Posted on Friday, April 05, 2002 - 12:02 pm: |
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I liked to crash RC airplanes that were on 52 mhz we had a group on UNLICENSED people jamming the input to my 52.55/53.55 repeater. So i tracked them down to a open field in pinellas park and with 120 watts on 52.55 sat there as their toys fell from the sky. That was in 1980 just before the machine took a big lighting hit.... smoked it.I hope that wasn't a hint... maby they had HIGH connections.
I feel bad about this to today.....yea. |
Antennadude
| | Posted on Friday, April 05, 2002 - 7:04 pm: |
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Why does that NOT surprise me? |
Taz
| | Posted on Friday, April 05, 2002 - 8:16 pm: |
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Bruce can have fun too. I am sure you have caused problems too antenna man |
bruce
| | Posted on Friday, April 05, 2002 - 8:52 pm: |
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antennadude that machine was jammed by the hour in 1977 - 1980 when we caught up with them i had to hear control tones by the hour bursts but we got them dead to rights i even found out later where they got the stuff... a clearwater hobbie shop openly selling to unlicensed people because the 27 meg ones were too prone to be jammed.... the boxes were clearly marked you must have a tech ham license or higher to use this and i was repeated in the instructions even included a form 610 !.... the guy had sold a ton of them but only this one group directly accross lake seminole from our antenna site caused a problem. Finaly call the fcc??? please the fcc tells hams police your own frequencys so we did.... o by the way NONE ever came back on |
bruce
| | Posted on Friday, April 05, 2002 - 9:33 pm: |
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Note there are hams useing RC on 6 meters NOT NEAR or in this case ON repeater inputs after several years of putting up with it we got lucky and got them you PLAY you PAY.... o my brother ASKED are you hams? and was told to buzz off we did. |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 12:33 am: |
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LOL! I enjoyed that post Bruce!! Ill bet the looks on those guys faces made you bust a gut when their planes went nuts! |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 12:39 am: |
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whats funny is my old CB neigbor used to run a Icom IC 706MKII on CB and this next door neigbor kid of his ran a RC truck in the alley night next to the poor guys antenna tower and beams. For some odd reason his radio picked up the kids TXer and it drove his radio absolutely NUTSO! He couldnt talk over the kid or nothing! So he just had to sit and wait until the kid was all done playing to talk!!!! LOL!! I about rolled one night when he was on the air complaining to some of his buds about not being able to talk because some kid had a RC truck and was "keying" all over him!!! |
Taz
| | Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 2:45 am: |
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hahahahaahha, an rc truck???????? thats milliwatts! hahaha he must be a duck |
bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 7:24 am: |
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2990 our system in 1974 cost me and my brother $1000 the cavites were 600 bucks alone i built the rest from boards and a 1953 notorola 120 watt basestation.BIG radio even before we repacked it into that 6 foot rack. We used at each end of the house 50 foot apart 2 DI-6 antennas at 70 foot overlooking lake seminole fla a very nice location here in west central fla. The RC 1 watt transmitters were detectable from almost 3 miles away... yes taz millawatters can go far ! and we had one hell of a time finding them because we got a reading when we got there they were gone... but this time they stayed too long ...Ive heard on cb rc radios and know like you people who had a kid on ch 12 or 14 with a truck eat them up its amazing how strong even .05 watts can be when its point blank to YOUR antenna. |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 11:09 am: |
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He was no "duck".. LOL. |
Taz
| | Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 5:57 pm: |
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ok, for me 2990 a duck is a mud duck |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 10:39 pm: |
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LOL! -YAWN- Whatever...........
Always got a smarta$$ comment dont you. |
Taz
| | Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 3:38 am: |
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No 2990 I dont. And if it only takes milliwatts to key on somone coming out of a 1 foot antenna then they must be a mud duck. I am sorry if offended you. Guess I hit a little nerve there? |
bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 11:56 am: |
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Taz do you EVER sleep 3:38 am is about the time i get up i wish i could have that kinda energy i know my kid will stay up a day at a time till he crashes... and we ger some quite for awild. |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 1:05 pm: |
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No not really. I was just giving you a hard time. That guy actually could talk over the kid BUT he couldnt hear anyone on his receive. So it was pointless for him to try to talk over the kid. LOL. Whats funy is the guy only lived about 3 blocks from me and i could talk to places he couldnt because of the fact he runs a Gap antenna tuned for 11 meters and also i run a set of beams and he doesnt anymore. |
Taz
| | Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 8:05 pm: |
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Yes bruce. I was getting my moonraker 4 and couldnt sleep. I got it here at the house today and am putting it up one of these weekends.
Cant wait! |
bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 9:33 pm: |
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you had me worried i had to keep 20 hour days as a teen because my mom was so sick now im so set that i get 3-5 hours sleep im fine but its still not good |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 10:18 pm: |
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LOL!! Us second shifters can stay up until whenever but it really takes your daytime away when you sleep in till noon!!!! LOL |
bruce
| | Posted on Monday, April 08, 2002 - 12:10 am: |
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2990 my brother worked grave yard for 20 years and loved halloween ...humm any conection? |
Taz
| | Posted on Monday, April 08, 2002 - 3:29 pm: |
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Hahahaha, you outlasted all the kids. |
