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From: Rick Bradshaw (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 17 2005 - 11:02:00 EST
Dwight,
Thanks for the files. For a minute there, I thought I hadn't received
them. Good ole Eudora didn't tell me they were there and I had to go
looking for them. I'll probably get a chance to read them either this
evening or this weekend. As always, it seems, time is fleeting this
morning.
What kind of weather has your "temporary" antenna survived? Sounds
like a good low cost way to do it if it will hold together through
just about anything.
Thanks.
Rick
>Hello Again Rick,
>
>Well if the admiral has to keep in touch with the subadmirals
>everyday than you don't have a lot of leeway :)
>
>Well the good news is that a SSB radio and a Ham radio are the same
>thing in two seperate boxes. Some of the new SSB radios actually
>have either a physical switch or switchable software to change from
>SSB to Ham. Why the difference then? Licensing operators. It's a
>long story and I don't know all the details but suffice to say that
>if you have your Ham radio operators license you can transmit and
>receive on a SSB.
>
>I've attached a couple of files containing snips from all the
>posting on a number of forums over the years. They are disorganized
>but contain a lot of useful information including model and
>configuration suggestions.
>
>I'll send them directly. If anyone wants a copy of
>Communications.doc, Radios.doc or SingleSideBand.doc let me know.
>
>All I have to add is instead of isolating your backstay as an
>antenna, we ran coaxial to the back stay and soldered it to antenna
>wire ($5 at Radio Shack), cut it to the appropriate length and
>hoisted it on a seperate halyard (rope), taping ot to the halyard
>every 3 feet. This was supposed to be a tempory measure but after
>three years she was still outperforming other boats with the much
>more expensive isolated back stay antenna.
>
>dwight
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