I truly do not understand why this idea that "I can work anything I can
hear" hangs around as a gauge of anything meaningful. It's a totally
meaningless reference. Antennas are generally (as in almost always)
reciprocal between transmit and receive, so if you suck on transmit
you're likely to equally suck on receive. So yeah ... most of us
probably can work anything we can hear but that doesn't mean anything
other than we haven't managed to screw up the physics of the world.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 9/8/2018 5:00 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
During the runup to Cycle 19 [!1957 for me], it was said you could
work anything you could hear on 10 with 20 watts to the window screen.
Window screens were copper in those days. I tried it out with my
"28-28" [6J6-2E26] rockbound 10 m TX, and indeed, I seemed to be able
to work everything I heard if I had a 40 m rock close enough. Window
screens are no longer copper so I don't think it would work today. My
"tuner" was the adjustable link coupling to the tank. College
starting 1957, military and SE Asia in 62, and Cycle 19 was in the
rear view mirror when I got home at the end of 1967. Oh that Cycle 25
would repeat even half of 19!
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
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