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I got the antenna 40 ft at one end, but until I get a bow & arrow setup the other end is abt 10 ft offa the ground.  :(

band conditions on 75 were crap tonite. will be on today.

getting a full 1000 watts on CW,  running 225 carrier set for am.

look on my youtube channel for a short vid.  ;D running a lin yar brings out the latent CB'er in me....   :D

nothing wrong with an afterburner if it is clean

I run an afterburner all the time Frank.

Derb: Fired up on 3880 now. Listening for the slapper!

buddly: heard you in qso but the band is trashed.  you were 4X6 at the most. 7:39pm. I did manage to get the other end of the antenna up to 25 ft today. I have to take a break but I'll be lookin for qso's around 10pm. Band should be back in shape by then.

I am going to check later to see if the band recovers again. right now I could be running 5KW and nobody would hear me.

Hi Derb !!
Congrats  !! Heard you up here in NW MASS tonight just as HLR signed but you were lost in the noise. You came up for a Q5 copy with KYV for a couple minutes
but then both of you were gone.
No way you will hear my 100watts with the VKII and an inside, yes,  inside the building, 120ft dipole but maybe later on as propagation comes up and I get some more soup myself.
 I'm currently trying a 240 ft horizontal U configuration that is 70 X 100 X 70 but still have to trim it a bit. Easy to do working inside at 50ft above ground level in the 4th floor. Shack is on the first.
73,
Bill KB3DKS in 1 Land

I was receiving Timmy and Derb FB, even though the band had gone "long".  But after HLR signed out, others, who were able copy one of us but not both, started breaking in, so I signed out and went back to the house.

This afternoon I was tuned up on 3.733 for the "What's For Dinner Net" but unfortunately a "QSO of the other-mode" set itself up on 3.737 which made things kind of sloppy. As I tuned around a bit to find a clear frequency, I came across a strapping carrier on 3.730 that turned out be W3RSW - Rick, with his 813 x 572's rig. I went back to him but found that N3DRB - Derb had called him simultaneously. We had a nice three way conversation for about 15 minutes and I grabbed a few short audio samples of both stations, while in the 12kc bandwidth position, to show how well they were being received up here in CT.

After I signed out, KB3AHE - Bacon showed up, so I grabbed the camera and recorded about 1.5 minutes of the ensuing conversation. There was quite a bit of selective fading but I was able to keep the receiver in the 12kc bandwidth postition. The FRG-7700 drives a pair of 4 inch speakers that are in the enclosure below it and the audio in the YouTube video is obviously speaker to microphone. The scope shots show plenty of positive peaks evident on all three of these stations.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2iJAEWyDQQ

Good Schtuff ! ! !   8)  8)

He was strapping into here yestaday! I wasnt getting the selective fades yet, so he was absolutely dead full quieting on the HQ-160 receiver in its widest bandwidth.

Even with a crappy low antenner, he was a strapper!!

hang on to yo britches..........the BJB rides again! ! !  8)  ;)  ;D

thankz for makin the recordings,Rob! !

                                                   the Slab Bacon

Yes!
He's back.   Strap R Tim.... mmm, mmm, mmm.
Thanks Rob for recording.

Tim, leave all the settings as is.  Won't get much better.
Hope you solve the plate current creep. 
May be just a characeristic of the Gonset.

Good ta hear ya Swianging da monky again Derb!

It's great to be back.

I literally feel like that amp had been possessed by the devil of slopbuckets past and that Frank performed a equipment exorcism. The thing is smooth as hell, and tunes like a dream.

be on tonite wherever there is activity. band is bad from about 7 to 10 though.

With 5KW DERB,
You'll light up your trees.............hi

Phred