The station has moved a short distance. For the time being, I will be running on minimal antenna, a Wilson No-Ground (the original with slide bar) through about 40 ft. of RG-174, at 30ft. It's not as bad as it sounds. As soon as I got some radios unpacked, the first antenna was a magmount center load stuck on top of a bakers rack. Talked to Colorado, Lousiana, Florida, California and Arkansas the first day with the Superbase, barefoot. I love minimalist radio!
A lot has changed. The band, of course, is still mostly dead.
Seems though here we are at the bottom of the latest solar cycle, conditions aren't so bad. The Copper CEF "club" has kept the DX going with weekly nets on ch15 lsb, so it's kind of a shining waypoint on the band until things open up all the way in the next few years. Give it a shot some Sunday morning. The ops there take their radio seriously and that's a good thing. No neat new additions to report this time around, and still running the 'ol Stoner here for the most part.
By The Way....Is this radio gettin' out?
What'd He Say?
Q: Who is
this 707 and why is he bothering me?
General
Freq: ch 38 27.385 LSB
Business
Hours: Mon-Fri yes, Sat-Sun yes
Radios:
Stoner PRO-40 SSB, GE Superbase
Mics:
GD-104, D-104SE
Ants: Only
after rainstorms
Is This Radio
Gettin' Out?
Break 19
Thanks for
the break, I'm back out....
Is That Really
Your Tower?
Of course
it's my tower, Why would I put a picture of somebody
else's tower on my page? That's my Imax 5000 on top of
my tower in my backyard. Everything is bigger in
Texas. Even my bullshit.
I wanna tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Comes out of the Virginia swamps
Cool and slow with plenty of precision
With a back beat narrow and hard to master
Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance
Others, mean and rueful of the Western dream
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft
We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping
This is the land where the Pharaoh died
The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered
They are saying, "Forget the night.
Live with us in forests of azure.
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned - immaculate."
Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache
I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the lose of God
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
The meager food for souls forgot
I'll tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul
I'll tell you this
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat
Soft drivin', slow and mad, like some new language
Now, listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the Texas
I'll tell you 'bout the Texas Radio
I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night
Wandering the Western dream
Tell you 'bout the maiden with wrought iron soul..
