Kim:

I know you have been offended, and now you wish to attack, belittle, defame and
outrage the object of your dislike and/or hatred (me!)

However, be careful, in your attacks you may end up disclosing far more about
your own personality, your mind and your caliber than you would wish to
disclose.

You do not need all the others to band with you in your attack of me, indeed,
it is counter productive to your goals. Stand on your own two feed, Dee has set
an example of a strong/intelligent woman able to defend herself, stand others
back from her "space" and win the respect which she rightly deserves--you would
be well advised to study the high standards and excellent example(s) she sets.

There is nothing real to fear here, we are all ladies and gentlemen (well,
mostly.)

If you have noticed that I, "March to the beat of another drummer." You are
correct. If you call me a, "Non-conformer", you are again correct. If you
call me a "free thinker" you are again correct. If you point out there may be
few who have my personality traits, I suspect you may indeed be correct.

If you expect those to be reasons which would make me "want to be like everyone
else" you are mistaken.

In short, "I do not shame into 'my place' easily." You may wish to pick a
different tool to use on me.

Warmest regards,
John

"Kim" wrote in message
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"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
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John,

Sorry if I'm not impressed; 75 and 40 meters are good for hundreds of
miles
on low power; thousands of miles at night. I ran 25 watts on 160 meters
and
was good to cover the United States at night.

Power is not everything. The ability to change frequencies (I'm talking
decades, not channels) will determine what distances you can send and
receive well to. I remember well breaking into a group on 75 meters in
the
Carolinas. I was running well under 1 watt. Way *way* under 1 watt.

160 meters did me quite well even in the daytime. Check in to ground
wave.
Not what you think of ground wave (which is space wave); true ground wave.
At that frequency, if you have it vertically polarized, the wave will
react
to the curvature of the earth as a knife edge. I could pound into
Washington, D.C. in the afternoon. With all of 65 watts.

My handheld reaches into Canada 24/7. On 440 MHz. Of course, I have to
rely on a decent Canadian repeater for that, but the fact is that I hit a
Canadian repeater directly from the handheld with no Internet involved.

On hf, the proper choice (I'll leave 160 out of this as the antennas are
quite unwieldy) between 80 and 40 will allow you several hundred miles
24/7.
With a modest amount of power.

So I remain unimpressed with power alone. I buzzed right through a
kilowatt
station years ago running only 75 watts. It isn't the size of the ship;
it's the motion through the ocean )


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA



heh heh, Jim...I think you're probably above this guy's ability to, well,
understand

Kim W5TIT