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Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m

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Rambo <Rambo@thisaintreal.org> wrote:
> On 19 Aug 2019 18:05:34 GMT, Stephen Cole
> <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
> 
>> Jim GM4DHJ ... <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> "Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:qjem2d$fee$1@dont-email.me...
>>>> 
>>>> "mm0fmf" <none@invalid.com> wrote in message 
>>>> news:qjeku7$8ic$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>> On 17/08/2019 17:05, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>>>>> In message <g9WdnRql-IlhgMXAnZ2dnUU78XfNnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>, Peter 
>>>>>> Able <stuck@home.com> writes
>>>>>>> On 17/08/2019 15:58, mm0fmf wrote:
>>>>>>>> I apologise in advance for a serious radio related topic on this group 
>>>>>>>> but here we go.
>>>>>>>> Ian, you jokingly mentioned the problem with 70cms was it was 159.3m 
>>>>>>>> too short and that got me thinking about 160m. I've never had a 160m 
>>>>>>>> QSO in 29 years of activity. I've never been motivated to try the 
>>>>>>>> band. So what makes 160m something of interest to you after you've 
>>>>>>>> been active for 60 years or so?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'd guess that for those of us of that age it is the womb where we were 
>>>>>>> nurtured.,,:). Loran, Portishead, TT11 PAs, HROs
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> AaaaaH!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You've put it better and more succinctly than I could. There was 
>>>>>> something magic about radio in those days, with a high proportion of 
>>>>>> newcomers being young, and either making their own gear or using 'war 
>>>>>> surplus' equipment - often modifying it to improve its performance. The 
>>>>>> fact that I was able to get an endfed fullwave up (over a river and at 
>>>>>> around 70' or 80' at the highest point) also helped!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers for that Ian and Peter. I expected there to be something like that 
>>>>> was involved, a soft spot for how things were etc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I did some Googling into top band stuff and found Mike G4KFK's page of 
>>>>> top band articles which I've been reading. What is obvious looking at 
>>>>> some of the older valved gear is how delightfully simple and elegant 
>>>>> AM/CW transmitters can be. It's brought home as my job deals with 
>>>>> multi-million lines of software, GB of data resulting in multi-billion 
>>>>> transistor chips. An unforgiving sea of complexity that's difficult to 
>>>>> get a good overall view of what's happening. Something with a few valves 
>>>>> appeals even if my chassis work skills are rough.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then there's getting an effective antenna for the band installed into the 
>>>>> typical UK postage stamp garden.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'll leave this to degenerate now as all things on here always do.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> no  no...after you chebs ....
>>>> 
>>> something about wearing the wife's panties like the post you just made up on 
>>> DIY under my "joining the motorway thread" would do nicely ....... 
>>> 
>> 
>> I don’t know why you don’t just buy a stock of your own ladies underwear,
>> Jim, rather than keep wearing and shitting your poor wife’s drawers. Have
>> some consideration, mate, for fuck’s sake. Thanks, Jim. 
> 
> 
>  You on them funny fags ...again?

Jim’s poor wife’s drawers are no laughing matter, Rich. Especially not
after Jim’s peeled them off his taint. 

-- 
M0TEY // STC
www.twitter.com/ukradioamateur

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Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-19 18:05 +0000
  Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-19 18:20 +0000
    Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2019-08-19 19:27 +0100
      Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> - 2019-08-19 19:29 +0100
        Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2019-08-19 21:20 +0100
          Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m "Jim GM4DHJ ..." <kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com> - 2019-08-19 21:27 +0100
      Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Roger Breedle <rb@rmb.invalid> - 2019-08-19 19:37 +0100
        Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-19 18:43 +0000
          Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Jim <jim@jim.jim.jim.invalid> - 2019-08-19 19:54 +0100
          Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-08-19 19:35 +0000
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  Re: Ping Ian Jackson 160m Rambo <Rambo@thisaintreal.org> - 2019-08-19 19:55 +0100
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