N9WOS
11-27-2002, 06:47 PM
When you work with slightly sub standard equipment
and antennas, you notice things that are not always
apparent to the normal operator.
There is things that become major factors that are hard
to quantify.
One of the most intriguing things is the affect that
you radio's name has on the propagation to your site.
I have seen it to many times to dismiss it.
I can listen to someone talk for an hour and i finally
decide to make a contact with him.
I usually always get him on the first try or the third try,
But never the #second try.
I don't know why but the second try never works.
The radio waves go to some big dummy load in the sky.
When i make contact with him my signal is always strong.
He's report stays the same when i tell him I'm running 25Watts.
The QSO will proceed along fine until we sign off.
But If i tell him the radio is an HTX 10 rat shack radio.
The next response i will get usually has the term QSB in it.
And in a few seconds, his signal will start fading too.
I also have A HW 101 that is my main HF rig.
The affects it has on propagation is also veery strange.
It seem that i can always walk on pileups with the
120 watts that it can push with the Mill spec 6146's in the
output stage, but i can never make contact with someone that
wants to talk for more than a few seconds.
It's just the RST, name, and location, then he goes to the next one.
Any one that is having long conversations with other people
can never hear me.
And the only country that i can't walk on the pileup
and make the contact is Japan.
That one has really puzzled me.
I can work Europe and Russia with no prob.
Africa and south America comes in clear but Japan is no go.
I can hear them fine but something isn't coming together somewhere.
I haven't been able to quantize the factors causing it.
I have my old P133 pounding away at the variables as i type this
but I'm thinking about pulling time one a cray machine to
speed up the process.
My best guess to this point is the problem affecting the HTX 10
is the ether molecules don't like accepting RF from such a
cheap and pathetic CB knock off that only cost $89 new.
It doesn't have any history behind it and it doesn't meat top of the line specs
so they aren't going to waste their time helping it.
They don't act biased against it until they hear what it is, then
they go on strike and the quantum transfer function goes to hell.
I think the HW 101's problem is it's been used on pileups
and contest to much by the previous owner.
It's got into a pattern and it's sticking with it.
It won't even entertain the idea of a brick key conversation.
The problem with Japan is pretty obvious.
The 6146's have a bias against Japan so they aren't going
to help me talk to them under any condition.
The solutions are obvious.
I will have to refrain from telling what radio
I'm using when I'm using the HTX 10.
Or I'll say I'm using the old heathkit HW 8.
The ether will work double time to carry my signal then.
I'll be able to WAS in under a week.
All I'll have to do is make up a little cloth cover for my radio
to make it look like an old HW 8 if the radio gods come to check.
As for as the HW 101 goes, i will have to trick it into some long
conversations until it gets use to the idea.
And when i contact Japan I'll have to say that I'm talking to
japar or something, That way the finals won't get suspicious.
All thou the person on the other end may think I've lost it.
(Of course they already do, so no harm there.)
Or i could crank up my Hallicrafters HT 18 or SX 96 and run
a few days of brass pounding CW to appease the radio gods
so they will let my HTX 10 signal through un hindered.
Or i could crank up my HW 12A single bander heathkit radio
and run it a few days to earn some brownie points with the radio gods.
I'm currently trying to find out what the best type of radio would
be to get the ether stream to help me the most.
Once i find that, I'll start making radio covers to make any
radio look like that, then the band will always be open and
everyone will have a 599 signal report.
And some accessory things i will sell is little tape on things
to go on your coax.
It will look like the coax is spliced together
with bobby pins and duct tape.
That will be good for a few good S units from the radio gods.
The antenna i will sell will look like a piece of 1/2 inch cooper
pipe with plastic pipe couplers at the joints but it will have
a full matching network inside with modern high strength
nylon and fiberglass insulators inside the plastic PVC joints.
That will worth a good 8 S units from the radio gods.
This is N9WOS, And 73 to you and happy holidays to everyone.
^o^
and antennas, you notice things that are not always
apparent to the normal operator.
There is things that become major factors that are hard
to quantify.
One of the most intriguing things is the affect that
you radio's name has on the propagation to your site.
I have seen it to many times to dismiss it.
I can listen to someone talk for an hour and i finally
decide to make a contact with him.
I usually always get him on the first try or the third try,
But never the #second try.
I don't know why but the second try never works.
The radio waves go to some big dummy load in the sky.
When i make contact with him my signal is always strong.
He's report stays the same when i tell him I'm running 25Watts.
The QSO will proceed along fine until we sign off.
But If i tell him the radio is an HTX 10 rat shack radio.
The next response i will get usually has the term QSB in it.
And in a few seconds, his signal will start fading too.
I also have A HW 101 that is my main HF rig.
The affects it has on propagation is also veery strange.
It seem that i can always walk on pileups with the
120 watts that it can push with the Mill spec 6146's in the
output stage, but i can never make contact with someone that
wants to talk for more than a few seconds.
It's just the RST, name, and location, then he goes to the next one.
Any one that is having long conversations with other people
can never hear me.
And the only country that i can't walk on the pileup
and make the contact is Japan.
That one has really puzzled me.
I can work Europe and Russia with no prob.
Africa and south America comes in clear but Japan is no go.
I can hear them fine but something isn't coming together somewhere.
I haven't been able to quantize the factors causing it.
I have my old P133 pounding away at the variables as i type this
but I'm thinking about pulling time one a cray machine to
speed up the process.
My best guess to this point is the problem affecting the HTX 10
is the ether molecules don't like accepting RF from such a
cheap and pathetic CB knock off that only cost $89 new.
It doesn't have any history behind it and it doesn't meat top of the line specs
so they aren't going to waste their time helping it.
They don't act biased against it until they hear what it is, then
they go on strike and the quantum transfer function goes to hell.
I think the HW 101's problem is it's been used on pileups
and contest to much by the previous owner.
It's got into a pattern and it's sticking with it.
It won't even entertain the idea of a brick key conversation.
The problem with Japan is pretty obvious.
The 6146's have a bias against Japan so they aren't going
to help me talk to them under any condition.
The solutions are obvious.
I will have to refrain from telling what radio
I'm using when I'm using the HTX 10.
Or I'll say I'm using the old heathkit HW 8.
The ether will work double time to carry my signal then.
I'll be able to WAS in under a week.
All I'll have to do is make up a little cloth cover for my radio
to make it look like an old HW 8 if the radio gods come to check.
As for as the HW 101 goes, i will have to trick it into some long
conversations until it gets use to the idea.
And when i contact Japan I'll have to say that I'm talking to
japar or something, That way the finals won't get suspicious.
All thou the person on the other end may think I've lost it.
(Of course they already do, so no harm there.)
Or i could crank up my Hallicrafters HT 18 or SX 96 and run
a few days of brass pounding CW to appease the radio gods
so they will let my HTX 10 signal through un hindered.
Or i could crank up my HW 12A single bander heathkit radio
and run it a few days to earn some brownie points with the radio gods.
I'm currently trying to find out what the best type of radio would
be to get the ether stream to help me the most.
Once i find that, I'll start making radio covers to make any
radio look like that, then the band will always be open and
everyone will have a 599 signal report.
And some accessory things i will sell is little tape on things
to go on your coax.
It will look like the coax is spliced together
with bobby pins and duct tape.
That will be good for a few good S units from the radio gods.
The antenna i will sell will look like a piece of 1/2 inch cooper
pipe with plastic pipe couplers at the joints but it will have
a full matching network inside with modern high strength
nylon and fiberglass insulators inside the plastic PVC joints.
That will worth a good 8 S units from the radio gods.
This is N9WOS, And 73 to you and happy holidays to everyone.
^o^