Amateur Radio - The Truth

25/02/2025

The Shabin.
What is this?
I see people make the same mistakes over and over.
The Ham Radio operator will spend thousands of dollars on what he thinks is the best possible Transceiver but he has no plans to build a place in his house for a operating station.

My thoughts are to spend the money on a piece of property, secluded, with no restrictions or covenants.

Get at least one acre, preferably with tall trees.
Or a field. You can buy used rusty tower for next to nothing and you can set up a square or a diamond on the property.

Put the shed in the middle, put a tower next to the shed.

Arrange the Antenna by band and direction. The higher frequency 6, 2, 70 cm needs to be as close as possible to the shed. Buy the best coaxial cable for the higher bands.

Install petastools and tilt base plate and you can add antenna and rotors as your budget allows.

Most likely someone will die and bargains can be found if you are patient.

If desired you can put up antennas north south, east west. But in Pennsylvania you can get a better signal if oriented north east, south west. With one good Off Center Fed Dipole.

60 - 120' feet above ground is a optimal height.

Super Insulate the floor, ceiling and wall. Put in a good door and some thermal pane windows and you ought to be able to heat and cool the shack for next to nothing.

A table, a stove, a refrigerator, bunk beds, a television, some cabinets and you can have a pretty nice place to go hang out and operate anytime you want. Porta-potty optional.

25/02/2025

Amateur Radio today.
March is the month we start to think about what our plan is for the upcoming radio contest season.
In the north, winter is when we are stuck indoors.

In the south, summers brutal heat force most people indoors. Most people congregate around the air conditioning.

Our winter excuse, I will fix the PL connector in the spring when it is warm.

I will put up a new antenna or a better antenna. I will get the dipole higher, I will prune the dipole for the phone band.

AND DON'T FORGET, YOU CAN FOLD BACK THE COPPERWELD WIRE, USE A CABLE CLAMP AND IT DOESN'T AFFECT THE TUNE.
YOU DON'T NEED TO REMOVE MATERIAL FROM THE DIPOLE.

08/10/2024

The pressure in the Gulf tonight is 900 Millibars.

Hurricane Katrina was only 902.

Extremely Powerful Hurricane Katrina Leaves a Historic Mark on the Northern Gulf Coast A Killer Hurricane Our Country Will Never Forget

18/09/2024

Exploding Walkie Talkies kills 20 people.

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05/09/2024

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24/08/2024

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24/08/2024

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteryless_radio

Originally this referred to units which could be used directly by AC mains supply (mains radio); it can also refer to units which do not require a power source at all, except for the power that they receive from an ambient radio source, such as radio waves.

24/08/2024

Amateur Radio and The War With Russia.

17/08/2024

Retired Col. Douglas McGregor, when interviewed yesterday commented about the situation in Gaza being directly related to what is happening in the Ukraine.
This is not a war! But when a war does occur one of the very first things that will happen will be the destruction of most all of the communication satellites in space by Russia.
Russia has said that they are going to do this.
Immediately the electricity in the U.S.A will go out.
Why? Because if you understand the electric grid you would know that it is regulated by GPS.
This is how they determine time. Time is how the grid determines phase. To connect to the grid the electricity must be in phase. Even just one source being slightly out of phase will cause a disruption and will cause a meltdown.
Remember that the signal sent by The National Institute of Time in Fort Collins Colorado did this for years.
Also remember that the United States government wanted to shut it down to save money.

Also remember what I previously wrote about being prepared. Owning quality Amateur Radio equipment, having the means Now to generate your own power, not with solar panels or a cheap Harbor Freight Chinese generator.

Having on hand at least 25 gallons of fuel and 5 gallons of motor oil for your automobile and the generator.

Col McGregor said that our country will be plunged into utter darkness. All forms of communications will fail.

Television relies on its satellite feed, radio relies on it's satellite feeds because we have very few live djs.
Cell phones will quit working because it relies on the satellite.

The only thing left for John Q. Public will be wireless communications.

My question to you is how many private repeater owners do you know that has their repeater connected to a generator?
How many repeater owners do you know that has a delivery scheduled for fuel to keep the repeater running in a disaster or emergency?

+1 my guess is none!
When I worked construction back in the early 90s, the state tower sites l worked on used wet cell batteries for tower backup.
If used sparingly would support the tower for about 48 hours.

Do you want some cbr on your repeater gabbing about some nonsense, killing the battery?

One holligan I knew would get on the repeater when there was any kind of storm, real or imagined and would read weather scripts.

We turned Eddie in to the FCC and the ARRL and instead of telling him to stop they gave him an award.

I had the privilege of speaking to a small group of people the other night on 80 meters.

I legally broke in to their conversation and injected my opinion.

Do you know what their reply was? Hey Joe did you get any of what he just said.
The answer was no, just a word here or there.

Why? I had a efficient dipole antenna and I had about 90 watts radiated.
The answer is simple.
They were not hams!

They were not operating they were broadcasting.
One operator with 1000 watts talking to other operators with 600 - 1500+ watts.

Because they want fidelity, their receiver was closed, the squelch turned up so high that all they hear is each other audio.

If you don't have a 30 / 9 signal they can't hear you, and the k**b is welded to one position and they refuse to move it.

They are not hams. You cannot rely on those people when the chips are down.

What you can rely on is them telling you to get the heck off their frequency because they hang out there every night at this time and the frequency is theirs.

Just remember this when the time comes for you to operate in a disaster or emergency.

08/08/2024

Some people who have been spoon fed, wet nursed all of their lives has commented about my previous post.
And so I had to take a second look to see what was so offensive.
And what l seen was the push back that came from someone whom I offended because I said something they were offended by, because it was true.

Today while unboxing a new monitor for the security system I noticed that there is something loose, rolling around inside the cabinet.

Should I send it back or accept it as is and hope that it works.
And this is what we have come to as a country.
Where everyone succeeds from the Union and goes Chinese.

Can we trust the stuff we purchased online to be reliable and dependable.
Will that Chinese walkie talkie work in a disaster or emergency?
Or are we just kidding ourselves and making excuses for crap we know is not going to make the long haul.

Our politicians are sparing with each other, but neither side addresses the real issues.

Each time the ARRL becomes desperate they include hands free laws for cell phones that includes a exemption for licensed radio amateurs

But how many of them actually received any sort of training or preparedness course for being a emergency communicator.

The FEMA course does little to nothing to teach you anything but the chain of command and who is in charge.

What we need is a movement, a rally of people willing to learn that asks what can you teach me and when can we start?

Waiting for a emergency to get proper training, you are too late.
And not asking your county radio officer - when is the next class? Is a start. But the first thing you should ask is what is your call sign and what class of license do you hold.

If the guy has been licensed 30 years and they are still a Technician or General, then you have to figure that they have not kept up with technology and they have not tried to better themselves.

Find someone else, someone who can help you.
We are in this mess together.
We need to learn how to make the best of it.

If I touched a nerve - GOOD!

GET UP OFF YOUR LAZY ASS AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

ORDER A GOOD ANTENNA OR SOME BETTER/ EXTRA COAX.

IF YOUR EQUIPMENT IS JUNK, BUY SOME BETTER STUFF NOW, NOT LATER, AFTER SOMETHING BAD HAS HAPPENED.

07/08/2024

If I was asked why my page was not visited by anyone in 3 months and now a sudden resurgence in interest, l would have to say that it is because of the event taking place throughout the world, and the lack of coverage by the American media.

The reason why they want us to look one way is because they don't want us to see what they are doing.

There is a war coming and no one realizes what is happening.

Traditionally when global events takes place, the short wave radio and the hams are the go to place to be.

But as I warned you for many years, the only source for intelligence is reliant upon the Amateur Radio community recruitment of knowledgeable people, which we did not d o.

Amateur Radio failed to retain the knowledgeable people we had, and we recruited the scum of the earth. Mostly due to lowering our standards and allowing the cb radio people in, just because our numbers were dropping and the ARRL was more worried about revenue than intelligence.

So now we are left with a unfillable void that must be filled by people who doesn't know anything and just got a license because they thought it would make them something, and that they could buy their way into the hobby.

Please tell me how this is working out for you?

When you cannot explain the virtue of having a efficient, resonant antenna and you have a whole population of people who either owns a G5RV because it is the cheapest antenna they can buy.
Or they have a end fed wire because they are trying to hide the antenna and are too cheap to buy good coax and run the antenna between two or 3 supports.

When you cannot have a emergency net anywhere except 80 meters, because most people do not have a efficient antenna that can do 10 - 80 meters without a antenna tuner, and they don't know how to operate without a amplifier and the amplifier does not allow them to migrate to a different frequency without having to tune everything again for maximum smoke.

Where would the American Indians be if their blanket only made one kind of smoke signal?

We are living in a world where everything has gone microwave or up on the satellite. We have been left behind because we refuse to listen or learn new ways of doing things.

Place your hands on the top of your HF radio and pray with me brothers and sisters. Can l get a Amen?

08/05/2024

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