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Posted: 8/28/2014 7:45:27 PM EDT
Contact tonight with TG4NOR/Air mobile. He's from Guatemala and he was air mobile @ 41k feet over Mexico. Small pile up but not bad. He had a really good signal here. That was a first for me, I've got marine mobile and air mobile now.
7.220 He's still calling CQ with few takers. He switched to spanish now with no takers but he speaks english if you hear him respond. From his QRZ bio page.  |
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Posted: 8/28/2014 8:12:03 PM EDT
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That's cool! Congrats!
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Posted: 8/28/2014 8:47:37 PM EDT
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Now I can't seem to get the song "eight miles high" out of my mind...
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Posted: 8/29/2014 3:18:42 AM EDT
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I have a B-17, a B-29 and a 737 in my logbook.
I'll post my FiFi QSL card when I get a chance. |
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Posted: 8/29/2014 5:04:08 AM EDT
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I've got a,,,, well I don't think he never said what type.
2meter simplex contact and turns out he's a member here! That was a fun contact. I think he got deployed to Europe somewhere. |
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Posted: 8/29/2014 3:03:02 PM EDT
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Damn pilots. Playing on the radio instead of flying the plane.
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Posted: 8/29/2014 3:38:08 PM EDT
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In the mid 1970s, I was listening to the HF air frequencies and heard a plane ID by saying this is Airforce 1. Needless to say I didnt try to call but it was interesting. Commercial planes still use the HF bands. If I remember right it was around 12 megs. I was using my old favorite surplus radio, a BC 312 and a wire. |
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Posted: 8/30/2014 7:27:01 PM EDT
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I was a C-141B Flight Engineer for over 17 years. Our plane had two big Collins HF radios, two VHF, and two UHF radios. It also had two ADF radios but those didn't transmit.
The old Collins would put out 400 watts if I recall correctly, and I remember listening to the CBers as we flew up the eastern seaboard before we'd coast out over Newfoundland. 400 watts and a 35,000' antenna..... 
This picture shows the antenna- the stinger on the front of the empennage: 
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Posted: 8/31/2014 10:24:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I was a C-141B Flight Engineer for over 17 years. Our plane had two big Collins HF radios, two VHF, and two UHF radios. It also had two ADF radios but those didn't transmit. The old Collins would put out 400 watts if I recall correctly, and I remember listening to the CBers as we flew up the eastern seaboard before we'd coast out over Newfoundland. 400 watts and a 35,000' antenna..... http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5184321559_f17ab17557.jpg This picture shows the antenna- the stinger on the front of the empennage: http://web.ornl.gov/sci/esa/graphics/tail_closeup_med.jpg Ill bet some of those channels sounded like a russian jamming station. One big loud buzzing. But around 1956 or so when the CB bands were opened for use, you could hardly hear more that 3 or 4 stations on the whole band. Certainly none of them were airborn. |
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