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Posted: 6/5/2017 2:00:46 PM EDT
[#1]
How do you afford something like that?
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Posted: 6/5/2017 2:30:39 PM EDT
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Not a place I would want to be in a thunder storm.
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Posted: 6/5/2017 2:38:01 PM EDT
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Not a place I would want to be in a thunder storm. K3LR is just down the street from me, gets hit all the time. |
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Posted: 6/5/2017 3:16:02 PM EDT
[#4]
"It's only a hobby" comes to mind.
At least a 50k investment to chase DX. |
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Posted: 6/5/2017 3:18:55 PM EDT
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I lived in Pensacola when I was a kid
My sister is still there hurricane county.... hope he has good insurance LOL surprised he's not extra class . |
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Posted: 6/5/2017 3:28:28 PM EDT
[#6]
have you seen the pics of his wife?
also he sustained a direct lightning strike and had to replace much of his equipment. I hear him on the air all the time. He estimates he has spent 5 million on his station |
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Posted: 6/5/2017 3:30:14 PM EDT
[#7]
That's one hell of a setup!
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Posted: 6/5/2017 3:33:03 PM EDT
[#8]
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At least a 50k investment to chase DX. If you have enough money, just about anything is possible. Look at Trump. 
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Posted: 6/5/2017 4:29:53 PM EDT
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That's one hell of a setup! for 160M.
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Posted: 6/5/2017 5:30:10 PM EDT
[#10]
Imagine having that station
DX would be easy you'd work something rare, and brag to your friends .....but they would think & say -" yeah but you got a super station " it would take all the fun out of it like the Twilight's zone episode "A Nice Place to Visit"  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/5/2017 5:42:24 PM EDT
[#11]
He needs to spend more time with his wife.
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Posted: 6/5/2017 6:39:20 PM EDT
[#12]
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He needs to spend more time with his wife. Someone has to make sure the pool guy gets paid while the OM chases DX |
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Posted: 6/5/2017 6:54:11 PM EDT
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I didn't even have to look at the link to know who you were talking about
Clearly he ascribes to the notion that there is no such thing as overkill! |
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Posted: 6/5/2017 7:21:12 PM EDT
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You gotta give it to the guy, he's got his priorities straight
You'd think a guy with a $5mil ham radio setup would live in some McMansion, but the house looks quite modest and on a dirt road in BFE, Florida. I kinda wonder if he lives there, or if that is just his personal clubhouse. To be completely honest, I'd trade the McMansion for that setup any day of the week. He can even keep the babe and the Ferrari! (disclaimer: I neither have nor have access to a McMansion  )
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Posted: 6/5/2017 8:20:04 PM EDT
[#15]
Holeee shiiitttt
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Posted: 6/5/2017 8:47:01 PM EDT
[#16]
Hey he is that guy that can pick up my barefoof ft817 on SSB
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Posted: 6/5/2017 10:13:13 PM EDT
[#17]
Nice setup and Very nice icing on the cake at the bottom of the page...
Prosise |
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Posted: 6/5/2017 10:26:17 PM EDT
[#18]
A man with many passions and the means to pursue them. Good for him.
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Posted: 6/5/2017 10:33:25 PM EDT
[#19]
Some of the locals here talk to him a bit . He has been a lucky man .
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Posted: 6/5/2017 11:55:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/6/2017 12:00:22 AM EDT
[#21]
So this is like the HAARP but in Florida
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Posted: 6/6/2017 1:35:34 AM EDT
[#22]
Oddly enough, that is EXACTLY what I DON'T want.
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Posted: 6/6/2017 1:47:26 AM EDT
[#23]
Apparently I need to re-evaluate my lottery goals.
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Posted: 6/6/2017 8:32:30 AM EDT
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Wow! All I can say is Wow!
From the end of his qrz page, it looks like he may have been a professional photographer. That may explain some of his spending money. I used to work with a fella who did professional photography on the weekends. He would make $8,000 for a couple of hours work taking and selling little league baseball pictures! |
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Posted: 6/6/2017 8:33:14 AM EDT
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Meh...
J/K. love the detail in the installation... |
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Posted: 6/6/2017 9:28:51 AM EDT
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Heck, I had a tribander on a 35' tower, an 80/40 inverted vee, kilowatt amp and a TS-520 with an auxiliary VFO. Working DX and contesting were so easy they were becoming boring. I realized I had had more fun with my crystal controlled 5 Watt Novice transmitter and ARC 5 receiver. I was spending less and less time on the air and more and more time with my horse.
After I had divorced and remarried, I put up a W3DZZ 5-band trap dipole, added a manual antenna tuner after the TS-520 and found ham radio to be fun again. That was over 30 years ago, and it's been that way ever since. Different strokes for different folks. Now about that Ferrari and biplane... |
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Posted: 6/6/2017 9:37:27 AM EDT
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I'll stick to my maybe 100 watt 991 and Buddipole. I'll spend the rest of my money on......
ETA: Spoke too soon. I scrolled the rest of the way. Shit! Yes and my wife is nearly as hot. No Ferrari's though. |
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Posted: 6/19/2017 12:18:03 PM EDT
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Well, if you have nothing else to spend it on...
A bit of overkill? |
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Posted: 6/19/2017 1:36:52 PM EDT
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I did scroll down. And I have to wonder why he's spending so much time playing radio.
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Be it radios, antennas, cars, women, or possibly airplanes. Just a small, non-contest station that recently came to my attention. Just keep scrolling. I think my cat is nicer than his. |
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Posted: 6/20/2017 6:00:08 PM EDT
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Be it radios, antennas, cars, women, or possibly airplanes. Just a small, non-contest station that recently came to my attention. Just keep scrolling. I think my cat is nicer than his. Nice setup. Looks like he really enjoys building antennas and loves this hobby. One of my buddies has a similar, huge antenna farm near his QTH and he owns a contest station in one of the Caribbean islands. He is very rich but he never lost passion for ham radio. One thing we both agree on is that money won't make you happy. Happiness comes from within. |
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Posted: 6/21/2017 12:00:18 AM EDT
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have you seen the pics of his wife? also he sustained a direct lightning strike and had to replace much of his equipment. I hear him on the air all the time. He estimates he has spent 5 million on his station |
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