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Non-line of sight cannot easily be predicted, but how strong a signal is on 2 meter simplex is a good indication that you might have a path - See ATV DX and ATV DX Records. For temperature inversion tropo skip usually in early summer, you can often get over the horizon snow free DX...
Cushcraft 17b2 vhf 2 meter Here for sale is a Cushcraft 17 B2 2 m bean antenna . Antenna is completely assembled and in my storage building hanging on the wall has been kept inside in the storage controlled environment for the last five years. I purchased a new and it was awesome ante...
If you have the appropriate amateur radio license, the Ham VHF and HF frequencies listed are usable in the US. On the 2-meter band, 146.52 MHz is indeed the nationwide calling frequency and was discussed earlier. However, the frequencies of 146.42 and 146.55 MHz do not always conform to lo...
Exceptional AM reception with the Twin-Coil® Ferrite Antenna Audio tuned for the spoken word AM, FM, NOAA Weather Band with Weather Alert and the 2-Meter Ham Band Clock, alarm, sleep timer, Headphone jack Display features a full backlight with three levels of brightness including an...
1500 watts of power and these privileges include the very popular 2-meter band. Many Technician licensees enjoy using small 2-meter hand-held radios to stay in touch with other hams in their area or operating from just about any vehicle, boat, etc. Imagine sending live TV in realtime over...
I managed to hold up an antenna to the window and to talk to amateurs on Earth." A Motorola hand-held portable radio was used for 2-Meter ham band operations. This was the first radio communications contact between an astronaut in space and civilians on earth using radio channels that were...
One of the first resonant antennas discovered was the 1/2 Wave dipole. The basic 1/2 Wave dipole is pictured in figure 4. If you wanted to make a dipole antenna to use on the 11 Meter band (CB), you would just make each leg a 1/4 Wavelength, right? Almost! Notice above how, ...
Next was the water temperature meter.I removed the old meter and cable and easily installed the new one in the dash. After routing the shielded cable through the firewall I needed to next install the sensor end in the block. Unfortunately the old sensor was stuck. Just a short stem was ...
George Child N4BCS installed the 2 meter antenna atop one of the two crank-up towers in the shadow of the Sunsphere. A year-long planning effort by TWA paid big dividends when the time came to install the station. Construction at the fair site was on a tight schedule, with several bui...