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Post by Night Ranger on May 31, 2012 5:59:40 GMT -5
I enjoyed listening to all of you in on the C.R.R. last night. I had to stop transmitting after it started pouring rain outside. Ladder line detunes rather dramatically when it gets wet. I looked over and my SWR had shot up, so I just started listening. By the time it stopped raining the skip between Pennsylvania and South Carolina had dropped out.
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Post by Sandbagger on May 31, 2012 6:07:47 GMT -5
I enjoyed listening to all of you in on the C.R.R. last night. I had to stop transmitting after it started pouring rain outside. Ladder line detunes rather dramatically when it gets wet. I looked over and my SWR had shot up, so I just started listening. By the time it stopped raining the skip between Pennsylvania and South Carolina had dropped out. Night Ranger I just sort of figured the conditions had shifted, and you dropped out. I will say that when the conditions are running your way, you have one of the strongest signals out there. You were half-way through the red zone on my Cobra 2000 S-meter, which is about the same signal Night Train gives me, and he's about 3 1/2 miles away.... How long were you able to listen after we stopped talking? |
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Post by spitfire441 on May 31, 2012 6:24:16 GMT -5
I enjoyed listening to all of you in on the C.R.R. last night. I had to stop transmitting after it started pouring rain outside. Ladder line detunes rather dramatically when it gets wet. I looked over and my SWR had shot up, so I just started listening. By the time it stopped raining the skip between Pennsylvania and South Carolina had dropped out. Night Ranger Another fun CRR. Nice to have a chat with you Mike. That Lazy H sure works. It is on my to do list! You consistantly rise above the other skip stations. I have the room, just need the time and a little help from a potato gun,LOL. |
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Post by Night Ranger on May 31, 2012 17:12:48 GMT -5
I enjoyed listening to all of you in on the C.R.R. last night. I had to stop transmitting after it started pouring rain outside. Ladder line detunes rather dramatically when it gets wet. I looked over and my SWR had shot up, so I just started listening. By the time it stopped raining the skip between Pennsylvania and South Carolina had dropped out. Night Ranger I just sort of figured the conditions had shifted, and you dropped out. I will say that when the conditions are running your way, you have one of the strongest signals out there. You were half-way through the red zone on my Cobra 2000 S-meter, which is about the same signal Night Train gives me, and he's about 3 1/2 miles away.... How long were you able to listen after we stopped talking? I went downstairs to turn on the outside flood lights to watch the rain. From that point on I was listening over the live feed, so I don't know how long the propagation lasted after that. Night Ranger |
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Post by Night Ranger on May 31, 2012 17:19:19 GMT -5
I enjoyed listening to all of you in on the C.R.R. last night. I had to stop transmitting after it started pouring rain outside. Ladder line detunes rather dramatically when it gets wet. I looked over and my SWR had shot up, so I just started listening. By the time it stopped raining the skip between Pennsylvania and South Carolina had dropped out. Night Ranger Another fun CRR. Nice to have a chat with you Mike. That Lazy H sure works. It is on my to do list! You consistantly rise above the other skip stations. I have the room, just need the time and a little help from a potato gun,LOL. It only takes about 30 to 45 minutes to build a Lazy H. They key is making sure the ladder line feeding the center of the Lazy H comes away at a 90 degree angle or the radiation pattern gets skewed. Also you want to find the length of ladder line running back to the shack that requires the least amount of inductance on your tuner to get the 1:1 match. I'm not sure if that is a voltage loop or a current loop, but if you wind up at a length that requires alot of inductance to tune the antenna tuner it will cause the 4:1 balun at the tuner to heat up and change value with high power. Night Ranger |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 1, 2012 5:50:53 GMT -5
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 1, 2012 7:10:48 GMT -5
Mine is down for the time being. I can no longer connect to it from outside of my internal network. I think my ISP is playing some sort of port blocking game. I haven't had time to play in that sandbox, but I'll figure it out at some point, but for now Pete's server is the one that you go to when you click on the link from here. |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 1, 2012 16:28:22 GMT -5
Mine is down for the time being. I can no longer connect to it from outside of my internal network. I think my ISP is playing some sort of port blocking game. I haven't had time to play in that sandbox, but I'll figure it out at some point, but for now Pete's server is the one that you go to when you click on the link from here. I may be able to tell you if your ISP is filtering your server. What is the current IP address? Night Ranger |
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Post by spitfire441 on Jun 3, 2012 5:41:20 GMT -5
Another fun CRR. Nice to have a chat with you Mike. That Lazy H sure works. It is on my to do list! You consistantly rise above the other skip stations. I have the room, just need the time and a little help from a potato gun,LOL. It only takes about 30 to 45 minutes to build a Lazy H. .....Night Ranger Yea but it will take several days to clear the trees in the way! |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 3, 2012 12:28:16 GMT -5
It only takes about 30 to 45 minutes to build a Lazy H. .....Night Ranger Yea but it will take several days to clear the trees in the way! I had to do some of that myself. I had to cut down one tree to make room for my Lazy H facing Pennsylvania, and about four trees to make room for co-phasing two Lazy H antennas towards Pennsylvania. I also had to cut down one big tree to make room for my six element curtain array. The Lazy H is worth it though. It is a great DX performer not just here in the U.S., but I have had some great reports out of Europe as well. You'll be glad you made one if you like talking skip. I even talked groundwave from where I am near Charleston, South Carolina to Woodruff, South Carolina which is about 180 miles. The guy on the other end was on horizontal as well with a Quad. -Night Ranger |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 5, 2012 5:38:21 GMT -5
Mine is down for the time being. I can no longer connect to it from outside of my internal network. I think my ISP is playing some sort of port blocking game. I haven't had time to play in that sandbox, but I'll figure it out at some point, but for now Pete's server is the one that you go to when you click on the link from here. I may have the answer to your streaming problem. This should work even if your ISP is blocking in-bound ports. I'm not sure if it will let you stream 24/7, but streaming for C.R.R. should work fine. It will also handle many more users at the same time than your previous method. Check out the link below. www.ustream.tv/Night Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 5, 2012 6:43:24 GMT -5
Mine is down for the time being. I can no longer connect to it from outside of my internal network. I think my ISP is playing some sort of port blocking game. I haven't had time to play in that sandbox, but I'll figure it out at some point, but for now Pete's server is the one that you go to when you click on the link from here. I may have the answer to your streaming problem. This should work even if your ISP is blocking in-bound ports. I'm not sure if it will let you stream 24/7, but streaming for C.R.R. should work fine. It will also handle many more users at the same time than your previous method. Check out the link below. www.ustream.tv/Night Ranger Perhaps, but it might be a little like using a bazooka to kill a mosquito. I may be able to fix things on my end once I get the bandwidth to look at it.... |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 5, 2012 19:59:04 GMT -5
I may have the answer to your streaming problem. This should work even if your ISP is blocking in-bound ports. I'm not sure if it will let you stream 24/7, but streaming for C.R.R. should work fine. It will also handle many more users at the same time than your previous method. Check out the link below. www.ustream.tv/Night Ranger Perhaps, but it might be a little like using a bazooka to kill a mosquito. I may be able to fix things on my end once I get the bandwidth to look at it.... Well I hope you get it going again soon. I still want to see how far past S9 I can push that Royce meter. I know you said it's stingy, but where there is a will, a gigantic curtain array, two 3-500zg tubes, and some strong propagation there is a way. The strongest sporadic E skip of the year always occurs in June in the Eastern United States. : ) Night Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 6, 2012 6:10:25 GMT -5
Perhaps, but it might be a little like using a bazooka to kill a mosquito. I may be able to fix things on my end once I get the bandwidth to look at it.... Well I hope you get it going again soon. I still want to see how far past S9 I can push that Royce meter. I know you said it's stingy, but where there is a will, a gigantic curtain array, two 3-500zg tubes, and some strong propagation there is a way. The strongest sporadic E skip of the year always occurs in June in the Eastern United States. : ) Night Ranger Maybe I should just use the Cobra 2000 instead, as the meter is much more generous on the top end (even though the Royce and Cobra are both calibrated the same at S9). You've already hit the +20db over S9 area on that meter. You're not likely to go much further than +10 over on the Royce, as the only people to do that are closer than 2 miles away from me (or running a decent amount of power). But it's certainly a goal to try...... |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 8, 2012 20:59:43 GMT -5
Ok, I changed the UDP port I was using for the audio streamer and it's back up. But I can't tell if it's working from the outside world, so if anyone wants to try it its at: mms://24.115.11.140:82 |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 8, 2012 21:10:14 GMT -5
Ok, I changed the UDP port I was using for the audio streamer and it's back up. But I can't tell if it's working from the outside world, so if anyone wants to try it its at: mms://24.115.11.140:82It's working! : ) Now the question becomes what monster antenna can I build to get past that S9. I made a hair past S9 on one or two occasions last summer, but just barely and only for a second or two. Hmmm... 1) Ridiculously long yagi wire beam? 2) Two co-phased Lazy H antennas? 3) Multi-element wire delta loop quad? Night Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 8, 2012 21:33:05 GMT -5
Ok, I changed the UDP port I was using for the audio streamer and it's back up. But I can't tell if it's working from the outside world, so if anyone wants to try it its at: mms://24.115.11.140:82It's working! : ) Now the question becomes what monster antenna can I build to get past that S9. I made a hair past S9 on one or two occasions last summer, but just barely and only for a second or two. Hmmm... 1) Ridiculously long yagi wire beam? 2) Two co-phased Lazy H antennas? 3) Multi-element wire delta loop quad? Night Ranger I seemed to remember you pushing the meter at least halfway to the +10 over mark at least once or twice. It took nearly a kilowatt to do it, but you managed to take out the Chester Country knuckleheads  |
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Post by Night Ranger on Jun 9, 2012 5:52:44 GMT -5
It's working! : ) Now the question becomes what monster antenna can I build to get past that S9. I made a hair past S9 on one or two occasions last summer, but just barely and only for a second or two. Hmmm... 1) Ridiculously long yagi wire beam? 2) Two co-phased Lazy H antennas? 3) Multi-element wire delta loop quad? Night Ranger I seemed to remember you pushing the meter at least halfway to the +10 over mark at least once or twice. It took nearly a kilowatt to do it, but you managed to take out the Chester Country knuckleheads Are those guys still at it on 21? I can't blame Spitfire for setting his Kenwood TS-480 (I think that is what that is) on channel 13 full time. I would not want to listen to those bozos on 21 either. By the way, I have actually had this in place for a few months for my own convenience. Of course when your IP changes I have to update my DNS server. sandbagger.shadowstorm.com = > 24.115.11.140 C:\>nslookup Default Server: UnKnown Address: 172.16.0.1 > sandbagger.shadowstorm.com. Server: UnKnown Address: 172.16.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: sandbagger.shadowstorm.com Address: 24.115.11.140 > This is one S9 plus a hair I managed last summer with 100 watts and the Lazy H. I think this was the week you went on vacation and left your beam pointed south.  -Night Ranger |
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