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General Radio Discussion / Re: Gregg Allman R.I.P.

« on: May 28, 2017, 0857 UTC »

It's about time. Ike Turner was a saint compared to Gregg Allman. He got Dickie Betts hooked on smack, then gave him and his own best buddy, Scooter Herring, up as his "suppliers" when he took up with the original Armenian ho, Cher. Gregg was the supplier and main consumer in that band, the chickenshit.

When you add in the number of underage girls he got strung out by making them his, "tour girlfriends" throughout his career, the music he helped produce nowhere near balances out the the amount of damage he did. What a waste of air and space!

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Radio Australia for sale

« on: May 27, 2017, 1715 UTC »

They could load a 500 kW transmitter into the Great Rabbit Fence for transmitting down in the VLF segment. All you would need to do is take off your shoes and walk out in the yard to hear the ABC as clear as a bell inside your noggin. People and animals would become repeaters every time they opened their mouths. The Sydney Opera house? A massive resonator blasting the message throughout the Pacific.

Tesla couldn't come up with a revolutionary idea like that on his best day.

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Equipment / Re: Loop On Ground

« on: May 27, 2017, 1648 UTC »

If you're going to leave it out for a long while, scalp the grass short before you lay it down, let the grass grow to about eight inches and use pegs to hold it the wire secure and tight to the ground while mowing. When your done mowing that section, stow the pegs until next time you mow over top of the thing. By the end of summer it should have buried itself in the yard. BTW, the technique works for radials,too, if you live in lands with a minimum of soil on rock, clay, or good ol' hardpan. It beats trying to dig slits for them in that kind of country.

Give it a try, Josh. They're about an easy of receiving antenna as there is to build and they work well once you learn the little tweaks you need to make it shine with your preferred receiver. There were several summers when my main back porch late night listening antenna was a LOG. I still use them at the beach for SW. They absolutely shine close to the coast in performance and ease of set up. Lay it out, do some listening, roll it up and do it again the next day. It takes all of thirty seconds to roll out or roll up.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Radio Australia for sale

« on: May 27, 2017, 0758 UTC »

How true. You should dedicate a segment of transmitters and arrays to be directed at Virginia Beach for the benefit of one of your most loyal and adoring fans.

As you don't know where the other is currently locked up, you should wait on inaugurating that service until he's in a halfway house or dried out. There's no use in wasting electricity on him until he's sprung or in the chair.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: He Man Radio 6950 AM 0046z 5/27/17

« on: May 27, 2017, 0742 UTC »

In AM? Obviously an imposter! He Man only transmits in the manliest of all modes, upper sideband!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: VORW Relay 6930 USB 0051 UTC May 27, 2017

« on: May 27, 2017, 0739 UTC »

Hmm, they must have been following me? I was in a truckstop Arby's about that time. Did they mention endangered overweight lot lizards fighting over who got the fatback sandwich?

Sounds like it was a funny show.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Radio Australia for sale

« on: May 27, 2017, 0655 UTC »

Careful in what you wish for, Al. Penguins are sometime visitors to South Australia.

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Equipment / Re: Loop On Ground

« on: May 27, 2017, 0652 UTC »

I've used them on and off for the better part of two decades or more. You generally need to crank the gain on your receiver a bit for best results, or even uncouple the ground side for weak sigs. During a bad static season they can make the difference between hearing something and hearing nothing.

Before KIPM went to high power, I used to listen to Max via a LOG in the summer months on those marathons. It went from,"What is that weak weird sh!t?" on the dipole to "Ah-ha!"

Some people advise running them on top of moderately high grass and brush, at about a foot, but don't believe it. I've heard marked differences in static levels from near quiet, flat on the ground, to high levels of static as little as 6 or 8 inches above the ground using them at various sites. If you feel like you need more "oomph" uncouple the ground side or add more wire.

I prefer a BOG, Beverage on the ground, after years of messing w/ both as wavelength isn't as big of a deal on HF and there is more directivity, but antennas both are prime static eliminators. The plus with both is you can always straighten the loop out if you've got clue which direction the broadcast is coming from and use it as a BOG, or turn your BOG into a LOG in seconds. It's basically two simple, low cost, effective noise reducing antennas in one.

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Huh? / Re: Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden, dies at 52

« on: May 25, 2017, 0233 UTC »

Neilo knew enough of them to know, FPE. Back about '05 a guy I knew who'd come back from a stint in the Air Force in Thailand badly strung out in the early 70's went out with that "just a little taste" syndrome after being clean since '78. Nodded off on the couch and never came to.

I still can't imagine Neil and Rick James in the same band. I wonder how they found their way to gigs? It's probably how they made that wrong turn and ended up in the States where it was revealed Rick was a deserter from the Army. I'd have loved to been in the car behind them to hear the original "Toxic Twins" try to talk their way out of that one.

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Great recipe source!

« on: May 25, 2017, 0214 UTC »

Well, you know that two-cycle oil has to be injected directly into the "cylinder", if you know that I mean...

Al, you've been firing on a full cylinder lately. Did you take my advice and start supplementing your diet with that two cycle oil?

You're sticking crayons up your nose again, aren't you?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Burn It Down Radio 6950 AM 1002 UTC 23 May 2017

« on: May 24, 2017, 0035 UTC »

I tried at roughly 10:45 UTC and heard zip. I must be too far south or off beam.

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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Great recipe source!

« on: May 24, 2017, 0029 UTC »

Al, you've been firing on a full cylinder lately. Did you take my advice and start supplementing your diet with that two cycle oil?

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Huh? / Re: The Penguin Brief

« on: May 24, 2017, 0026 UTC »

Don't be such a scombroid.

I checked the ad out. A Belinda C. from L.A. seems very interested.

I'm not the guy wanted in Mississippi for selling bad catfish on a stick. Half of Yoknapatawpha County was hospitalized over that little episode at the Greater All South Anvil Shooting Championships at Col. Sartoris place.

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Huh? / Re: The Penguin Brief

« on: May 23, 2017, 0115 UTC »

I checked the ad out. A Belinda C. from L.A. seems very interested.

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Huh? / Re: A real "Inconvenient Truth"

« on: May 23, 2017, 0111 UTC »

I bet Franco was a foil man.