Tim was heard here S9 on the meter of BOTH the R-388 and the TS-440, solid, little QSB.
(QTH is between Catskill NY and Albany NY)
It should be obvious to all who attempt to get a signal on the bands that that burnbox in the
Pussbus is obviously for more than burning "garbage." Those burns are sacrifices to
Ionos! What else could possibly account for HLR's almost universal signal strength??
_-_-WBear2GCR
You may have something there, Bear. I was in the pus bus with a rip-roaring trasholine fire going in the woodoline stove when I worked Timmy, and I'll be damned if I didn't hear him extremely well for 2.5 watts into that antenna at that distance in broad daylight.
The wire array was an absolute requirement, and even then the QSB would take him completely out at the dips, but I was actually able to work him when there wasn't some teenage puke (who spends his mornings practicing his angry faces
and "f*ck you"s in the mirror) swishing up and down on a ricebox into a leen-yar, and probably monitoring himself online. Maybe I should have burned a few oil filters and some toilet paper.
Minus that very minor distraction, Timmy came through great, and it was a great weekend to be on the air.
--Thom
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