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Nice try Mark , your cover is blown.

 

If he wasn't as good as he says he is, you wouldn't hear him. A technician is only as good as the propagation of his signal. I don't see anybody complaining about the "thousands" of other technicians out there.

 

What's the name on my YouTube channel? It sure doesn't look like Mark. In fact my voice doesn't sound anything like Mark. https://youtube.com/user/rabbibacongrease88

 

That's true, All you have to do is listen to the airwaves and if you don't hear them, they are no good. Some things are just common sense but I guess common sense is a little hard for you to grasp.

 

Ok, Mark. I can make up a YouTube channel right now and say I'm Santa Clause but that doesn't necessarily make it so; now does it? I'm convinced you are indeed Mark Charmin. Soft and sensitive. Your posts defending him as if he was your own father have spread across multiple forums. Your endless advertising is as old as your incessant prerecorded messages that disrespectfuly spam channel 19 daily from PA.

 

I don't have a dog in this fight, and I'm not picking sides, but radios are more polarizing than politics TBH......LOL!

 

This year, I hope to have my man cave/bunker/radio room built in one of my shipping containers. I have two 40 foot containers 22 feet apart with 24 foot sheets of roof decking spanning between them. Use it as storage. I've done it before with metal roofed buildings, and they make excellent ground planes. So I'll have my 2m, HF, CBs, amps, tuners set up in my little cave, and maybe plan on some verticals on the roof, a tower with a big base 2m antenna, maybe a yagi, definitely a 75m dipole for NVIS, and I'd like to try a G5RV sometime. I live in the middle of nowhere in southern ND west of the Missouri river. Lots of acres and no neighbors lol.

 

You live in ND? Your about as rare of a contact as Hawaii and Alaska..lol. At least on the digital modes. SD,Wyoming,Kansas, and Oklahoma aren't much better. After many years I've finely been seriously trying to get a WAS award. Unfortunately not all contacts are LOTW certified, so it makes it even harder to get the WAS. It would be interesting to see a map with how many hams live in each state. There might be 2 people in Wyoming, Ha. Sounds like you should have a great ham shack when your done getting it built.

 

Yessir! I know theres at least 2 or 3 hams in Wyoming lol! Theres that dude that did the Jackalope net on 40 at noon mountain time I believe. I've talked with a couple on 2 meters in Cheyenne. There an SK that was from Moorcroft that planted the ham radio seed for me when I was a kid in the early 90s. My dad and I were there visiting him as my dad was doing some horse trading with him for a couple M1 Garands. I remember him getting on the 2m repeater and making some contacts. Then my dad called his buddy back up in ND and they made a QSO on 40m. That tinny sound on ssb with a little crackling combined with that cozy little shack he had set up in the basement and the dim drop lighting just set the stage for me. I had to do it. And to add to that my dad listened to nothing but AM radio. It's a sound I'm addicted to.

For me, theres nothing like sitting at the bench late at night, spinning the knob, sipping a beer with some late night paranormal talk radio in the background.