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General Radio Discussion / Why 69xx kHz?
« on: May 03, 2016, 0055 UTC »
So I'm new to this forum, but not to pirate radio in general. I pirated before on 1710khz, but the antenna construction is hard and I never seemed to get out very far (plus the ground conductivity where I am is really bad).
Anyway, I want to try pirating on HF and I'm wondering why most people use 69xx khz because for me it would be much easier to make an antenna for around 10-15 MHz. Does anybody listen for pirates around those frequencies? Do they get out as far?
See the graph on this site: http://www.voacap.com/antennas/squeezing-decibels-out-of-dipole/
You can see that if I created an antenna for 10-15, it is very doable to get the peak gain out of the antenna based on the distance from ground. However, if I were to use 69xx, it would be very hard for me to get more than 40ft from the ground and so not much gain...
So would pirating around 10-15 be better?
Anyway, I want to try pirating on HF and I'm wondering why most people use 69xx khz because for me it would be much easier to make an antenna for around 10-15 MHz. Does anybody listen for pirates around those frequencies? Do they get out as far?
See the graph on this site: http://www.voacap.com/antennas/squeezing-decibels-out-of-dipole/
You can see that if I created an antenna for 10-15, it is very doable to get the peak gain out of the antenna based on the distance from ground. However, if I were to use 69xx, it would be very hard for me to get more than 40ft from the ground and so not much gain...
So would pirating around 10-15 be better?