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Another annoying story from the old days (standby)
This is the old, unloved, "Skud missile," a low flying, poorly guided object. 1978 Ford LTDII, 351W 2bbl. The photo was a "last thought' as I turned it over to the junk yard. I bought it when I was broke in the '80's for 300 bucks with a broken cam gear and bad crank. Got it running, and drove it to work for 3 years or so. I had a Tempo (Uniden) 2020 transceiver which I used on the amateur bands, installed in the car. HUGE radio. MADE MY OWN mobile whip for 10 through 160meters. The system consisted of a pipe nipple welded to a home-built hitch receiver, with 1/2 pipe PVC coupling screwed on for a base insulator, and about 4? ft of scrap 1/2 pipe into that, with a diagonal brace about 1' high to keep it "in place." At the top of the 4' pipe, I screwed various PVC fittings on, with HAND WOUND loading coils for the various amateur bands, and topped it all off with a broken off CB whip about 6' or so ft long. The whole damn thing was over 12' to the top, and HIT SOME LOW overpasses!!!!! By removing the loading coil, and coupling the top whip directly to the 1/2 pipe it was "just right" for the amateur 10M band
The infamous (and huge!) Tempo 2020
I was working in Spokane, about 50mi drive one way, and had several "adventures" in that car. One afternoon, coming home from work, had the "cruise" turned on, and "not much" happening on the amateur bands. I was on either 15 or 20M trying to get my morse code speed "up" and had one hand on the wheel, the other hand, my arm resting on the console, tuning the radio, trying to "copy in my head", something I've never been good at doing.
THE NEXT THING I KNOW I sort of "woke up" and noticed that I was about FIVE FEET from the vehicle in front, both of us doing 70 mph!!! Nothing happened, everybody was just cruising along, but funny!!! (NOT) how you remember those things.
I've worked all over the world on that damned old thing........all mobile. Hawaii on 75M at night, Spain and England, Germany. Down into S America, Japan, I don't remember where all. This was a few years where propagation REALLY opened up and in the last few cycles has not been duplicated
Another annoying story from the old days (standby)
This is the old, unloved, "Skud missile," a low flying, poorly guided object. 1978 Ford LTDII, 351W 2bbl. The photo was a "last thought' as I turned it over to the junk yard. I bought it when I was broke in the '80's for 300 bucks with a broken cam gear and bad crank. Got it running, and drove it to work for 3 years or so. I had a Tempo (Uniden) 2020 transceiver which I used on the amateur bands, installed in the car. HUGE radio. MADE MY OWN mobile whip for 10 through 160meters. The system consisted of a pipe nipple welded to a home-built hitch receiver, with 1/2 pipe PVC coupling screwed on for a base insulator, and about 4? ft of scrap 1/2 pipe into that, with a diagonal brace about 1' high to keep it "in place." At the top of the 4' pipe, I screwed various PVC fittings on, with HAND WOUND loading coils for the various amateur bands, and topped it all off with a broken off CB whip about 6' or so ft long. The whole damn thing was over 12' to the top, and HIT SOME LOW overpasses!!!!! By removing the loading coil, and coupling the top whip directly to the 1/2 pipe it was "just right" for the amateur 10M band
The infamous (and huge!) Tempo 2020
I was working in Spokane, about 50mi drive one way, and had several "adventures" in that car. One afternoon, coming home from work, had the "cruise" turned on, and "not much" happening on the amateur bands. I was on either 15 or 20M trying to get my morse code speed "up" and had one hand on the wheel, the other hand, my arm resting on the console, tuning the radio, trying to "copy in my head", something I've never been good at doing.
THE NEXT THING I KNOW I sort of "woke up" and noticed that I was about FIVE FEET from the vehicle in front, both of us doing 70 mph!!! Nothing happened, everybody was just cruising along, but funny!!! (NOT) how you remember those things.
I've worked all over the world on that damned old thing........all mobile. Hawaii on 75M at night, Spain and England, Germany. Down into S America, Japan, I don't remember where all. This was a few years where propagation REALLY opened up and in the last few cycles has not been duplicated
