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by N3BE
Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What does your listening post look like?
Replies: 12
Views: 9372

Re: What does your listening post look like?

I love your setup. It all looks very cool, 73 es best DX de N3BE
by N3BE
Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ARRL Field Day This weekend! 2023
Replies: 3
Views: 4962

Re: ARRL Field Day This weekend! 2023

You have that right. Propagation was not the best combined with thunderstorms in the mid-atlantic to new-england states took a toll on participation. I myself only got to work about six hours of the event. Having lost an IC756ProII to storm related static discharge some 20 years back, no rig is onli...
by N3BE
Sat Jun 24, 2023 12:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ARRL Field Day This weekend! 2023
Replies: 3
Views: 4962

Re: ARRL Field Day This weekend! 2023

and,,,
If you do visit a site, ask if they have a GOTA (Get On The Air) rig you can operate.
Even without a license,
You get to operate under the supervision of a licensed Ham,
and they get FIVE points (instead of one or two) for each GOTA contact.
WIN WIN!!
by N3BE
Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ARRL Field Day This weekend! 2023
Replies: 3
Views: 4962

ARRL Field Day This weekend! 2023

This weekend is the 2023 ARRL Field Day event, when most participating Hams head off grid to operate,
If you navigate to:
https://www.arrl.org/field-day-locator
You can use your zip code to find field day encampments near you.
73 es DX, N3BE SK
by N3BE
Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WNJC 1360 "Lights Out" DX Test--NIGHTLY Midnight Eastern (0500 UTC) till 1 AM Eastern (O600 UTC)
Replies: 0
Views: 11658

WNJC 1360 "Lights Out" DX Test--NIGHTLY Midnight Eastern (0500 UTC) till 1 AM Eastern (O600 UTC)

WNJC 1360 "Lights Out" DX Test--NIGHTLY Midnight Eastern (0500 UTC) till 1 AM Eastern (O600 UTC)

Another one bytes the dust.
by N3BE
Fri Jan 06, 2023 12:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sihuadon D-808 for Xmas
Replies: 3
Views: 5262

Re: Sihuadon D-808 for Xmas

OK January 6th 2023 and it’s been a long and interesting holiday Journey. So as I described the 108/808 to my XYL approaching Xmas gift time, she decided I should cancel the $42 dollar 108 order and get myself the 808. Now the 808 thru Amazon land was just upward of $120, but what the hell she is a ...
by N3BE
Fri Dec 09, 2022 3:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sihuadon D-808 for Xmas
Replies: 3
Views: 5262

Re: Sihuadon D-808 for Xmas

Sorry team, I typo'ed the model, not *808* but "108 ", 73 John N3BE
by N3BE
Fri Dec 09, 2022 2:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sihuadon D-808 for Xmas
Replies: 3
Views: 5262

Sihuadon D-808 for Xmas

Good Morning fellow DX'ers. I just snagged a Sihuadon D-808 at Amazon for just under $44.00 US. There is a $9.00 discount coupon making this price happen. If you were considering this little gem, now might be the time. Of course my XYL says I can't open it 'till the 26th. (Tradition) Happy Holidays ...
by N3BE
Fri Nov 18, 2022 1:21 pm
Forum: Questions & Advice
Topic: Perhaps goofy antenna idea
Replies: 37
Views: 23833

Re: Perhaps goofy antenna idea

Maybe not so goofy, For decades as a renter and home owner, in every room I have used for radio receiving, I put up an 'alarm foil loop' around the perimeter of the room at the top of the walls bringing the foil down to the termination blocks near the listening position. Painting over the foil has n...
by N3BE
Sun Aug 28, 2022 9:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What does your listening post look like?
Replies: 12
Views: 9372

Re: What does your listening post look like?

Good catch on the lenses. I am not. But some of those lenses are. The lenses were for my various rangefinders and film SLRs years ago. Now I hang them via adapters on my Sony A7 digital. Old glass on full frame digital body, the best of both worlds.