Someone needs to go back into production on the 2m Big Wheels. The one I
own(Cushcraft) was used by Tom Smith, W4RXR as he was operating N4T/rover
this past contest. He worked W4WA EM84 from EM65 on the Natchez Trace. I
don't think the common loops would do that with 50 watts into them. That
thing works FB. My experience on 2m SSB is that there are too many guys
looking for BIG signals and don't want to dig for the weak stuff. I tell
them, that is why it is called weak signal.In fact, Tom is looking for 220
and 432 Big Wheels. I know where there are some 6m Squalos that might be
available. Any ideas on what they would be worth?
Joe W4AAB
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Geiger" <johngeig@yahoo.com>
To: "Nate Duehr" <nate@natetech.com>; <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] vhf/uhf activity
>
> > The new hams around here have the "frequency du
> > jour"... last year it
> > was on 6m... when they all put up 6m antennas...
> > this year it was
> > 144.220 area... when they all built mobile
> > horizontal loops...
>
> I think this is another problem with getting people
> interested in VHF weak signal work today. For some
> reason, many people believe that the horizontal loop
> is the antenna. It is probably better than
> nothing-but not by much. Even getting a 4 element
> yagi up will beat the heck out of it, and not take up
> any more space. I think many try out the loop, don't
> hear anything because of its poor performance, and
> then give up on 2 meter SSB because there "is no
> activity."
>
> 73s John W5TD
>
>
>
>
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