The Vortex?

[kc2ifr]

Wow...what a tough crowd! My Johnson 500 does a good job most of the time but with a little luck my 4x1 by 833's will be on the air this weekend. Can u say STRAP? 

[KB2WIG]

                "kinda like saying why eat hamburgers when you can have steak!!"



How do you have  a chease buger and pickels  with a steak??   How can you ride down the road and eat a steak while speaking into the mic??   Enquiring mind wants to know.... You need the cheeseburger... Fries fit in the cup holder.... klc  

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

4x1 by 833's

Nice!

[The Slab Bacon]

               "kinda like saying why eat hamburgers when you can have steak!!"



How do you have  a chease buger and pickels  with a steak??   How can you ride down the road and eat a steak while speaking into the mic??   Enquiring mind wants to know.... You need the cheeseburger... Fries fit in the cup holder.... klc  

you just put the rig on vox, grab the wheel with the left hand, grab the steak by the bone with the right hand, chew away and happy motoring.

one can only eat so many cheezy boogers

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

It's a well known fact pissweakers don't have anything intelligent to say anyway (otherwise they wouldn't be so pissweak). So why let them talk?

The pissweaker they are, the longer they talk! Why is this ALWAYS the rule of the PissWeaker?

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

Wow...what a tough crowd! My Johnson 500 does a good job most of the time but with a little luck my 4x1 by 833's will be on the air this weekend. Can u say STRAP? 

Bill,
    I've heard your 4X1 rig any number of times on 160M, and it is definitely NOT Pissweak!

[Vortex Joe - N3IBX]

Food for thought:

Think of what would happen if "51 Watt Fred" loaded up on 160M? it wouldn't matter that he only runs 51W, or loaded his rig into a physically small antenna, he would still oldbuzzard with his pissweak signal!

Some people need to contact my favorite antenna company. Their name is "Eimac". Eimac definitely makes the finest antennas in the world. Amperex,RCA,Machlett,Penta Labs, etc come in a close second...

[kc2ifr]

Hi Joe,
TNX for the fine words. The 4X1 I use on 160 is a linear........4-1000 triode connected grounded grid. Its a mono bander....160 only and I drive it with my highly modified Ranger.
The 4X1 I hope to get on the air this weekend will be a 4X1 modulated by a pair of 833's.....different rig completely!
I just hope it will be done by Sunday but not sure because I have to completely rebuild my ant. to handle the new rig.. and that will take up at least a half a day. Terry and Jamie will be here to help. Jamie is the one building the transmitter.....its the one I bought from him a while back and was not finished. Anyway....a lot of work to do!

[The Slab Bacon]

Starting out pissweak and getting ridiculed into getting a better signal is basically a
"right of passage" for most AMers.  Kinda sorta like paying your dues!

Another right of passage is getting on with what you think is a signal and hearing the Timtron come back to you with: "Yea, I can hear ya up here, but yur kinda Piss Weak!"  Been there, done that!!

Like the old saying goes "you gotta pay your dues if you want to sing the blues"
One must always make that climb up the ladder of respect by earning it.
If you are gonna operate piss-weak, expect to take some heat about it!

                                                                    The Slab Bacon

[k4kyv]

I'm a beer man, myself 

Then why don't you try some REAL beer?

The stuff in the photo is to beer as plastic ricebox/slopbucket is to radio.