I hear Hard Drive

The fact that Rabbi allegedly accomplished the 74 mile feat in a Cascadia speaks more for the antenna system he was using than whatever radio he was using!
IMHO
JD

 

Now Ridgeline will key up his couple watt radio on a lightbulb antenna and talk to Guam!
LMAO!

JD

 

I agree, I've mentioned that a few times before too. That's the number one important factor with any radio system. Unfortunately there's no changing the way Rabbi thinks.

 

LOL.

 

You informed us of your lack of skill when you admitted you threw away the Anytone AT-6666 because you didn't have the necessary knowledge to overcome its shortcomings in the audio department because you didn't understand the distortion was created in the RF chain, not the audio chain.

If you were incapable of making it sound the way you wanted it to sound, what makes you think you are qualified to judge someone else's work Who is perfectly capable of making it sound However, he wants it to sound?

Millions have tried to recreate this over the past 20 years on interstate 80 in Pennsylvania and they have failed regardless of the amount of power they were running. The fact that nobody else has been able to achieve this tells me everything I need to know.

 

I was never in a Freightliner cascadia. The driver talking on interstate 80 was in a Freightliner cascadia. The test receiver was in my Chevy Tahoe at my test location behind the back side of a mountain as a reference point.

 

the record is 3/4 of a watt, talked to a guy in Port Blair in the Bay of Bengal small distance of 9053 miles. OK, it was digital but my last voice contacts the other day was 6500 miles with one watt, using a random wire for transmit and a Beverage for receive.

No, I said that I didn't like the way it sounded on receive. It wasn't a distortion problem in the IF or RF chain it is a problem with my inner ear, one reason why I have so many problems with code or CW. I have a hearing problem from a recent accident so it sounded distorted to me but not to others. The same radio is installed in one of the trucks now and the driver loves it. I know what the problem was and know if I wanted to fix it I would but I also never bash the radio just the promoters of it.

What?

I judge people's ability to explain things Rabbi. For example, you went on and on about a dipole and I posted the formula for a dipole that has been used for over a century but you kept going on about it was wrong. I think I also posted formulas for the use of the Shunt matching system and you posted some crap about me being totally wrong about it.

Honestly, I don't know who these millions are, but I bet no one gives a crap. It is an achievement like Tom Knieal forming CB clubs in 1962, or Paul and Benita Wilson talking on the CB more than 100 miles daily, or how truckers got together in the '60s to use this as an effective tool.

 

Oops, I missed the fact that you said Rabbi was in a Casscadia, but I see he corrected you, so its all good. I've always felt like the best vehicles for any two way mobile radio system was the Tahoe or the Suburban, with something like the Antenna Specialist Big Momma antenna mounted in the middle of that big rooftop those vehicles have.

 

How it sounds on receive is determined by your skills as a technician to manipulate how it sounds on receive. I do agree with you that it's completely worthless out of the box.

I never said you were wrong. I simply said how I do it for my own personal use. I recognize the method you described is how most people do it.

After sitting in the exact same location over a 20-year span, listening to millions of truck drivers disappear out of my receiver after 20 miles, one has a tendency to make simple observations based upon logic and common sense. It's pretty sad when I need a thousand feet of elevation to simply listen to someone disappear after 10 or 20 miles. Fortunately, sitting in the same location is a pretty scientific way of measuring performance.

 

Rabbi, you may want to rethink your logic and common sense. Since the FCC, a Mr Al Gross, created the class D band in 1958, for short range communication on 11 meters, and this really saddens you, then you need to call the FCC and complain about it. You know what they say about the squeaky wheel.