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OT: 2m beam orientation

Harlan Sherriff
I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams.

Harlan
NC3C

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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

kevinr@coho.net
Traditionally it is vertical polarization for FM and horizontal for SSB
and CW.

Kevin.  KD5ONS



On 6/20/2013 5:46 PM, Harlan wrote:

> I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams.
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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Michael Eberle
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I keep my 13 element 2m beam horizontal for SSB work.  I have some kind
of pulsating  interference from an unknown source in the FM portion of
the band for it to be of much use.

Mike
KI0HA

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> I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams.
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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

k6mkf
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I have mine horizontally oriented for SSB and CW.  It's an old 10-element beam and seems to do OK for FM repeater use as well.

-- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "We do DX!"

On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:04 PM, kevinr <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Traditionally it is vertical polarization for FM and horizontal for SSB and CW.
>
> Kevin.  KD5ONS
>
>
>
> On 6/20/2013 5:46 PM, Harlan wrote:
>> I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams.
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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Richard Fjeld
Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound.

Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was.

Dick, n0ce

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Ron D'Eau Claire
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  Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation


  Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high
  gain antenna to reach it?

  Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for
  repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in
  line-of-sight from the rig.

  The Yagi's and other gain antennas are for CW/SSB/DATA over long paths with
  horizontal polarization.

  73 Ron AC7AC



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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

mzilmer
Aren't many repeaters collocated with other commercial equipment on those giant (1500') broadcast towers we see all over the plains?  My ham buddies in NE Iowa tell me this is generally the best anyone can do, even if it costs a bit.

Matt Zilmer
W6NIA


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Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 7:35 AM
To: Ron D'Eau Claire; [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound.

Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was.

Dick, n0ce

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Ron D'Eau Claire
  To: [hidden email]
  Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation


  Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high
  gain antenna to reach it?

  Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for
  repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in
  line-of-sight from the rig.

  The Yagi's and other gain antennas are for CW/SSB/DATA over long paths with
  horizontal polarization.

  73 Ron AC7AC



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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Larry Ewan
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I just made a round-trip from Florida to Montana in the past two weeks,
scanning the 2M and 70CM simplex channels and repeaters along the way.  In
6 days on the road I heard exactly one conversation.  And it was on
146.520 between two 18 wheeler hams on I-90 in South Dakota.

Larry N9JY  

On 6/21/13 10:35 AM, "Richard Fjeld" <[hidden email]> wrote:

>Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound.
>
>Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it
>once was.
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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Milt -- N5IA
When you travel our direction (winter time for you snowbirds) you are invited to utilize a very active 2-Meter repeater system known as the EAARS Network.

Go to http://www.eaars.com/eaarsnetwork.html for information and map locations of the various nodes.

2 Meters is very alive and well in the southwest US.  Also see http://nm5ml.com/ for total New Mexico coverage.

Good luck in your travels.

de Milt, N5IA


-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Ewan
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 8:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

I just made a round-trip from Florida to Montana in the past two weeks,
scanning the 2M and 70CM simplex channels and repeaters along the way.  In
6 days on the road I heard exactly one conversation.  And it was on
146.520 between two 18 wheeler hams on I-90 in South Dakota.

Larry N9JY  

On 6/21/13 10:35 AM, "Richard Fjeld" <[hidden email]> wrote:

>Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound.
>
>Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it
>once was.
>



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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Fred Smith-2
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I use a small yagi vertical (13B2) for one of my FM antennas for a while.
With it @ 65' and 50w could work repeaters as far as 170 miles away most of
the time. Using a good preamp and 165w about 225 mi or so.

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Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:35 AM
To: Ron D'Eau Claire; [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound.

Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once
was.

Dick, n0ce

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Ron D'Eau Claire
  To: [hidden email]
  Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation


  Do all of you live many, many miles from the repeater that requires a high
  gain antenna to reach it?

  Here along the west coast of the USA we use a simple 1/4 wave whip for
  repeater connections since we are working a repeater on a mountain top in
  line-of-sight from the rig.

  The Yagi's and other gain antennas are for CW/SSB/DATA over long paths
with
  horizontal polarization.

  73 Ron AC7AC



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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Richard Fjeld
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Some clubs are fortunate to be on them.  And speaking of tall towers, here is a video about climbing them.  This is not for the faint of heart.

I did not see any way to use safety lines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM


Dick, n0ce
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  Subject: RE: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation


  Aren't many repeaters collocated with other commercial equipment on those giant (1500') broadcast towers we see all over the plains?  My ham buddies in NE Iowa tell me this is generally the best anyone can do, even if it costs a bit.

  Matt Zilmer
  W6NIA


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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Tony Estep
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Richard Fjeld <[hidden email]>wrote:

> ....repeater activity is almost dead...

==============
There are about 30 repeaters audible from my QTH, some on 2M and some on
440. My 2M/440 radio is turned on and scanning them much of the time. Some
days I hear no conversations. There are some weekly nets, and a sometimes a
few commute-time chats. But VHF/UHF activity here in St. Louis County seems
to be a fraction of what it was 40 years ago, even though I think there may
be more repeaters today.

Some of the repeaters are rigged to hook into the global linking system so
that somebody here can work somebody, for example, in Australia via local
repeaters. I've heard that used only a couple of times.

Our DX club has a calling frequency that in days past was frequently
occupied with tip-offs, DX chat, and general ragchewing, but even that has
fizzled down to almost nothing.

Tony KT0NY
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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Jim Low man
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I think that's true in many places, Dick.

Ten years ago, there were some repeaters here in the greater LA area
that were hopping 24/7.
Now, with many of them...silence.

I have no idea what caused the change.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 6/21/2013 7:35 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
> Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound.
>
> Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it once was.
>
> Dick, n0ce
>
>  

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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Milt -- N5IA
Cellular telephones and Twitter accounts.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lowman
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 4:05 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

I think that's true in many places, Dick.

Ten years ago, there were some repeaters here in the greater LA area
that were hopping 24/7.
Now, with many of them...silence.

I have no idea what caused the change.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 6/21/2013 7:35 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote:
> Here in the plains the closest thing to a mountain top is a gopher mound.
>
> Seriously though, repeater activity is almost dead compared to what it
> once was.
>
> Dick, n0ce



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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

k6dgw
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Somewhere back in the 80's [or so, memory fails me these days], I got
several of the IEEE group Proceedings, among which were Info Theory and
Vehicular Technology [my employer was doing a lot of the latter which
involved me in a lot of the former].  I read one paper, from Japan I
think, about this idea of having very low power radio sites that
"portable" phones could talk to, and a computer control system to manage
the hand-off to other sites as the caller moved.

I said to my cube-mate, "Have you seen this?", and he said, "Yes, what
do you think about it?"  I replied, "That'll never work, and besides,
who would want to carry one of those phone bags around with them
everywhere?"

That's my answer to Jim's question.

I also read about this US DoD program to put multiple satellites in
orbit to allow ground devices to determine their position.  I figured,
"DoD?  This will be a huge boondoggle."  LORAN-C is now defunct.

Being in the comm/computer/defense biz, my wife asked me if we wanted to
sign up for this thing called an Automated Teller Machine card at Wells
Fargo.  I suggested we not bother, just one more card, "Believe me, this
isn't going to catch on, who wants a machine giving them their own money?"

The only time I've been an early adopter is with Elecraft [K3 #642], and
not even then all the time [K2 #4398].  And "computing in a cloud"
really sounds like Star Wars although my Kindle Fire at least thinks it
has it's own cloud.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013
- www.cqp.org

On 6/21/2013 4:05 PM, Jim Lowman wrote:

> I have no idea what caused the change.


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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Phil Kane-2
On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> And "computing in a cloud" really sounds like Star Wars although my
> Kindle Fire at least thinks it has it's own cloud.

"Computing in a cloud" is nothing more than an updated version of
mainframe-and-terminals from back in the 60s.  Now where did I put that
VT-100 ??  <G>

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

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Phil Kane-2
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On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> Somewhere back in the 80's [or so, memory fails me these days], I got
> several of the IEEE group Proceedings, among which were Info Theory and
> Vehicular Technology [my employer was doing a lot of the latter which
> involved me in a lot of the former].  I read one paper, from Japan I
> think, about this idea of having very low power radio sites that
> "portable" phones could talk to, and a computer control system to manage
> the hand-off to other sites as the caller moved.

Wow!  AT&T had cellular service (AMPS) under development in 1979 and put
the first system on the air in 1983.  What was the novelty that it had
to be written up in IEEE-VTS (I was a chapter chair of VTS in that
era)?  Was it that the Japanese also had it under development in that
same time frame?

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
Life Senior Member - IEEE

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Doug Person-3
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Not quite.  Dumb terminals were dumb. Rich web applications place a lot
of the user interface rendering onto the client.  Not at all like dumb
terminals.  The "Cloud" is a bit more complex than what an old mainframe
did.  And we are only scratching the surface.  Better to think of cloud
computing as distributed computing.  Properly done, its hard to tell
where the client stops and the server begins.  And that would be the point.
73, Doug -- K0DXV

On 6/21/2013 9:08 PM, Phil Kane wrote:

> On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
>
>> And "computing in a cloud" really sounds like Star Wars although my
>> Kindle Fire at least thinks it has it's own cloud.
> "Computing in a cloud" is nothing more than an updated version of
> mainframe-and-terminals from back in the 60s.  Now where did I put that
> VT-100 ??  <G>
>
> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
>
> >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
> Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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Phil Kane-2
On 6/22/2013 9:28 AM, Doug Person wrote:

> Not quite.  Dumb terminals were dumb. Rich web applications place a lot
> of the user interface rendering onto the client.  Not at all like dumb
> terminals.  The "Cloud" is a bit more complex than what an old mainframe
> did.  And we are only scratching the surface.  Better to think of cloud
> computing as distributed computing.  Properly done, its hard to tell
> where the client stops and the server begins.

Our servers are our property and under our control.  The cloud is under
who-knows-whose control who-knows-where.  We made a conscious decision
that we will not put our sensitive client or company data - some
classified - on such a system.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

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Don Wilhelm-4
Phil,

IMHO, that is a wise decision.  While "the cloud" is supposed to be
secure, I have my doubts.  The only thing I would consider committing to
the cloud would possibly be encrypted off-site backup data, but for now,
my RAID file server serves that purpose quite nicely, although it does
not offer me off-site backup storage in case of a major disaster.  I can
write my backup data periodically to DVDs and keep them at a different
location should I deem that necessary.  I do not have anything that is
classified, so am most concerned about data recovery in case a disaster
totally destroys the drives on my file server.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/22/2013 11:47 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
> Our servers are our property and under our control. The cloud is under
> who-knows-whose control who-knows-where. We made a conscious decision
> that we will not put our sensitive client or company data - some
> classified - on such a system. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

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Re: OT: 2m beam orientation

Jeff Herr
you are doing it every day.
Verisign, the banks, they ARE the "cloud".
They have all your info .....now.



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Phil,

IMHO, that is a wise decision.  While "the cloud" is supposed to be secure,
I have my doubts.  The only thing I would consider committing to the cloud
would possibly be encrypted off-site backup data, but for now, my RAID file
server serves that purpose quite nicely, although it does not offer me
off-site backup storage in case of a major disaster.  I can write my backup
data periodically to DVDs and keep them at a different location should I
deem that necessary.  I do not have anything that is classified, so am most
concerned about data recovery in case a disaster totally destroys the drives
on my file server.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/22/2013 11:47 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
> Our servers are our property and under our control. The cloud is under
> who-knows-whose control who-knows-where. We made a conscious decision
> that we will not put our sensitive client or company data - some
> classified - on such a system. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

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