I was stuck in traffic today behind a guy in a pick up and an huge antenna.
His Ham radio call letters on his bumper sticker.

He was probably running HF mobile but using phone, not morse code. But I do know guys who only do morse code while mobile.

/is a ham
//73
///hihi om

Wasn't me, I drive a Chevy sedan

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Looks like the brilliant journalists over at the Daily Fail just got hold of a book that came out over a decade ago.

/maybe they read it via telegraph?

Um, technically wouldn't any type of social community centered around a communications technology be considered a "social network"?

imashark: Um, technically wouldn't any type of social community centered around a communications technology be considered a "social network"?

No. You need to use wires! How else can you claim to make a net that works?

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gopher321: That wasn't the first social network. Never heard of aboriginal smoke signals? Or messenger pigeons? meh, whatever.

Or drums?
Or petroglyphs/

paygun: --... ...-- -.- -.. ----- -. ..-. -.--

Hey, doesn't he do that Spy V.S. Spy comic strip in MAD magazine?

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Looks like the brilliant journalists over at the Daily Fail just got hold of a book that came out over a decade ago.

/maybe they read it via telegraph?

I came here to post this. I see my work is done.

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Millennium: --- -.- / .--. --- --- .--. / .. ... / -.-. --- -- .. -. --. / --- ..- -

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like?

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vudukungfu: Hey, doesn't he do that Spy V.S. Spy comic strip in MAD magazine?

what

paygun: what

Wow.
/Obscure?
//go look at a copy of spy vs spy
///see who signed theri name to the strip.

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Wrong Amy Fisher, I thought it was this one.
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Me too!

vudukungfu: Wow.

Yeah I know the comic you're talking about but otherwise I have no idea what you're talking about or what it has to do with what I posted.

Bathroom Samurai: He was probably running HF mobile but using phone, not morse code. But I do know guys who only do morse code while mobile.

/is a ham
//73
///hihi om

I do CW mobile. I just snagged KL8DX (Alaska) mobile on 10 meters CW this weekend.

dittybopper: I just snagged KL8DX (Alaska) mobile on 10 meters CW this weekend.

He had a hell of a pileup on 10 meters SSB but I never got through.

The telegraph gets short shrift these days, but it really did revolutionize communications. Before, a message could only be sent as fast as it could be physically carried. It could days or weeks for news to cross the country, and months for it to reach the far-flung reaches of the globe. Once the telegraph came along, though, you could send a message and know that it would be at it's destination in minutes, or perhaps an hour at most.

That seems pretty slow today, but the difference between 2+ months for a fast clipper ship to send a letter from the UK to Australia, and an hour for a telegram to traverse that distance*, is much greater than the difference between an hour for a telegram, and under a minute for an e-mail.

*Generally, it would have been received, routed, and re-sent several times between the UK and Australia, and that would add time. If it took 5 minutes to transmit/receive, and another 5 minutes to route it to the next station down the line, you can see where an hour for a message from the UK to Australia or vice-versa is reasonable.

paygun: dittybopper: I just snagged KL8DX (Alaska) mobile on 10 meters CW this weekend.

He had a hell of a pileup on 10 meters SSB but I never got through.

I really need to get an HF antenna up before winter. I'm really missing out on a lot.

/just put a tower up
//vhf/uhf only
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paygun: Yeah I know the comic you're talking about but otherwise I have no idea what you're talking about or what it has to do with what I posted.

Be cause the guy signs his name in dots and dashes, and that looks like dots and dashes. or was I thinking of the other dots and dashes?

paygun: dittybopper: I just snagged KL8DX (Alaska) mobile on 10 meters CW this weekend.

He had a hell of a pileup on 10 meters SSB but I never got through.

He called *ME* on 10 CW. I guess it pays to call "CQ CQ CQ DE N2♦♦♦ N2♦♦♦ N2♦♦♦/M K" And I've got a piss-weak 20 watt signal to a cut-down CB magmount that seems to be more dummy load than radiator.

Bathroom Samurai: paygun: dittybopper: I just snagged KL8DX (Alaska) mobile on 10 meters CW this weekend.

He had a hell of a pileup on 10 meters SSB but I never got through.

I really need to get an HF antenna up before winter. I'm really missing out on a lot.

/just put a tower up
//vhf/uhf only
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Do it.

I just got my G5RV Jr. back up to where it was before Hurricane Irene. Was going to get on 40 meters last night, but got wrapped up in watching a movie.

Arcturus72: The HAM geek is strong in this thread...

I'm not *THAT* strong.

Considering my professional background in Morse code, and the fact that I use it quite often still as a hobby, I've been thinking about sending Western Union a resume and cover letter, applying for a position as a telegrapher. I'd *LOVE* to see the rejection letter for that one.

Coming up the day after tomorrow from the "No Coincidence Department": the 150th anniversary of the closing of the Pony Express.

dittybopper: I've got a piss-weak 20 watt signal to a cut-down CB magmount that seems to be more dummy load than radiator.

A wire and a wide range antenna tuner wouldn't break the bank and it's easy to put up just about anywhere. I worked a station in Argentina with 5 watts on 10 meters a few days ago with this and a piece of wire stretched across the ceiling and up into my attic.

Mentat: dittybopper: Considering my professional background in Morse code, and the fact that I use it quite often still as a hobby, I've been thinking about sending Western Union a resume and cover letter, applying for a position as a telegrapher. I'd *LOVE* to see the rejection letter for that one.

They stopped sending telegraphs in 2007.

And they stopped using Morse code well over 50 years ago.



/Wife still has the telegram from 1968 announcing her birth.

dittybopper: Bathroom Samurai: paygun: dittybopper: I just snagged KL8DX (Alaska) mobile on 10 meters CW this weekend.

He had a hell of a pileup on 10 meters SSB but I never got through.

I really need to get an HF antenna up before winter. I'm really missing out on a lot.

/just put a tower up
//vhf/uhf only
///-.- ----- . -.-- .--

Do it.

I just got my G5RV Jr. back up to where it was before Hurricane Irene. Was going to get on 40 meters last night, but got wrapped up in watching a movie.

I've got a G5RV Jr, too. I want to string up my new 20M Endfedz dipole.

paygun: dittybopper: I've got a piss-weak 20 watt signal to a cut-down CB magmount that seems to be more dummy load than radiator.

A wire and a wide range antenna tuner wouldn't break the bank and it's easy to put up just about anywhere. I worked a station in Argentina with 5 watts on 10 meters a few days ago with this and a piece of wire stretched across the ceiling and up into my attic.

Um, you do know that I'm talking about *MOBILE*, right? I chatted with him using CW on 28.051 MHz, while driving home with a mess of Broccoli soup from Paneras, using a straight key wedged between the driver and passenger seats of my car.

/Have a G5RV Jr. and 20 Meter J-Pole for HF antennas at the home QTH.
//Thinking about changing the 10 Meter antenna to a hamstick.
///Have a 2 Meter, 6 Meter and 10 Meter antennas on the car, along with a generic long whip for shortwave broadcast reception.

dittybopper: Um, you do know that I'm talking about *MOBILE*, right?

Oh, duh. No HF mobile for me yet.

12 and 15 were good this weekend too. I've been licensed for about a year and worked about 30 countries. Just this weekend I worked about 20 more.

I use an 80 meter horizontal loop for everything, with balanced line back to a tuner in the shack. It's way too long for 10 meters and I only end up with about 50 watts out on 10 with the poor match I get.

Late last night it just occurred to me that I could use an 11 meter mag mount antenna I have for 10, I stuck it outside on top of a storage cabinet by my patio that has a metal top. It's about 1.2 to 1 on the bottom end of 10 meters, if I was using it when I heard KL8DX I probably would have worked him too. Hopefully he'll be back.

Status: ...--...--.-.-..--..-..- stop
Ok, I recognize the ... -- ... as sms, but since there arn't spaces, the morse code translator can't parse the rest.

paygun: dittybopper: Um, you do know that I'm talking about *MOBILE*, right?

Oh, duh. No HF mobile for me yet.

12 and 15 were good this weekend too. I've been licensed for about a year and worked about 30 countries. Just this weekend I worked about 20 more.

I use an 80 meter horizontal loop for everything, with balanced line back to a tuner in the shack. It's way too long for 10 meters and I only end up with about 50 watts out on 10 with the poor match I get.

Late last night it just occurred to me that I could use an 11 meter mag mount antenna I have for 10, I stuck it outside on top of a storage cabinet by my patio that has a metal top. It's about 1.2 to 1 on the bottom end of 10 meters, if I was using it when I heard KL8DX I probably would have worked him too. Hopefully he'll be back.

Your problem is that you are going up against guys running 500 to 1500 watts, who are using yagis. One hundred watts to a wire, or a short vertical, just isn't going to cut it for SSB pileups, but 100 watts to a wire often will break a CW pileup. Not always, but more often than on sideband.

Plus, that metal cabinet is a pretty small groundplane at 10 meters. Try it, though. Experiment beats theory any day of the week, and when 10 meters is open, a wet string will work.

/Been a licensed amateur for almost 22 years now.
//Use Morse professionally for the 4 years before I was licensed.

dittybopper: Considering my professional background in Morse code, and the fact that I use it quite often still as a hobby, I've been thinking about sending Western Union a resume and cover letter, applying for a position as a telegrapher. I'd *LOVE* to see the rejection letter for that one.

Would be amusing no doubt. Bout the same as sending an application to DuPont to be an Alchemist I suppose. "Sirrih, I am an Alchyemisthe, hast thou need of art such as thine?"

FTA: "A rudimentary version of the Internet - not much more advanced than two tin cans and a string - had been born. But it worked, and it grew."

It amuses me when non-technically inclined morons write articles about technical subjects. The Telegraph was as far removed from the can and string as the wright brothers flyer and a 747. Or the telegraph and the iPad. Bozo also forgets to note that it was 99.99% business communications in those days. Far too expensive to send a telegram on a casual basis.


10 Meters has been hotter than a Pistol, I finally got my beam up and whee! T32C and Bulgaria both on 10.

/Sent my last telegram from Kathmandu in 1982.
//still have it.

You hear the one about the Aggie who was so dumb, he called up the FCC and asked them how to get to Whiskeyland?

jspenguin: ...--...--.-.-..--..-..-

EEETTEEETTETETEETTEETEET?

Subby had a seizure. Or forgot the spaces. Or I'm missing something, which is always possible.

bmwericus: 10 Meters has been hotter than a Pistol, I finally got my beam up and whee! T32C and Bulgaria both on 10.

I heard T32C on 10 this weekend, but didn't even bother. I knew I wouldn't break the pileup.