🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@TruthSandwich

Sadly the infighting among the extreme liberals and moderate liberals is the DNC's worst enemy, and liberals as a whole really... I know you dont think this sort of abuse from the left drives people farther right, but it does.

I can personally say I use to vote democrat, and this definately played a role pushing me towards the middle.

@freepeoplesfreepress

@freepeoplesfreepress Valuable skills to have, and a lot of fun.. i just finished an antenna project that took quite some time (due to poor help)

@icedquinn Have you tried not being suspicious?

@freepeoplesfreepress Its an extremely complex subject to understand fully... but the jist of it isnt too hard...

long wavelengths are for night, short wavelengths for day.. more sunspots are better for daytime propagation, worse for long wavelength propagation both day and night.

then you have winter vs summer but lets not go there :)

@freepeoplesfreepress Oh and sunspots have a HUGE effect on this and ultimately depending on the activity ont he sun determines what your MUF is (maximum usable frequency)... right nwo the sun is ideal for what we want.

@freepeoplesfreepress dusk and dawn are the ideal times because .. you want the sun to have just start to split the F-layer but before the d-layer forms...

That said 10m performs very well mid day where the d-layer has formed (so absorbs a bit but 10m gets through it best), and the f-layer is fully formed.

Usually when its completely night time you wont get much of any activity on 10m because the F layer is not charged properly to reflect it.

Found a nice little group of guys, mostly in west virginia who apparently are on 3.803MHz every night 8 - 9pm... it is right in the sweet spot for my antenna (80 meters band i have a limited window where it tunes up very nicely). Happy I found the group so i have something to do. All really clear tonight, s9+10 so very promising. its about a 280 mile contact, which is pretty decent for 80m too.

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@weezmgk For sure, and that is objectively true... Weird thing is though even on just 40m, which isnt supposed to be for DX, Ive hit 4000 miles plus before... 10m is usually dead and im happy to work it, and yea the dx is a bit easier.. but im really surprised at how easy in the past ive gotten equivelant dx off things as low as 40m

@jerry "Do as I say, not as I do" would be a good title... feel free to take it, but i like yours too.

How is it dark out and im still getting RTTY contacts on 10 meters! lol

@weezmgk while the cycle has certainly opened up the 10m for me, and this was never open during the low... ya know what... im not really getting all that more DX.. largely cause i was always very successful with 20m even during the low... despite having a small foorprint this antenna performs very well.

Another amazing 10 meter contact... this time 5,300 miles to argentina over RTTY!

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@kilroy_was_here

yea tuning up in CW is still the norm unless you have an auto tune... in a pinch you can whistle into the mic too but its not as clean.

@rombat

@rombat

Yea its just cause they put more power into the band.. SSB if you arent talking but are pushig the PTT nothing will come out the antenna... it only puts as much power in aws the volume it hears... If you make a very loud whistle into SSB it would be almost the same as CW (except not quite as clean a tone obviously)

@kilroy_was_here

@rombat

Its not usually the mode but the frequency + power.. i am willing to bet if you switched to FM on the same freq and transmitted youd get your doorbell going off too.

@kilroy_was_here

@rombat

None that I specifically noticed. I get s2.5 to s4 noise floor though and im sure at least some of that is from the house.

Keep in mind the roof top radials act as a sort of shielding from RFI for the active vertical, so they are particularly good for rooftops.

The first time i installed this a decade ago though when id transmit my neighboors backyard light would turn on... which kinda sucked considering iw as running an APRS beacon 10 minutes apart :)

@kilroy_was_here