Icom IC-7000

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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by matthewn1983 » Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:22 pm

Did you see the video on youtube of the guardrail antenna?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWsdaSmWg7E

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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by citabria » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:09 pm

Hi Richard,

Contacts were on both 20 and 40. The overseas contacts were on 20. I put the antenna up in a nice open location where I string up a windom and other dipoles to do a comparison. The noise on the magloop is very very low due to its narrow bandwidth, so its great for hearing signals that are normally masked by noise.

I'm very interested in 80 and 160m, but as you say the space and height is that hard part! especially on 160!

Cheers,
Matt

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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by citabria » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:12 pm

Guardrail antenna! I thought about using the guttering on my apartment, but the joins are pretty nasty and corroded - not to mention the legal aspect of firing 100 watts in 8 apartments of people that aren't aware of it...

Good on him though! I like it!

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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by citabria » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:22 pm

Mike Alpha wrote:
citabria wrote:After playing with UHF/VHF for 15 years or so on and off, this HF thing has really got my interest!
You're getting old Matt :)
True that! After playing around hacking and cracking P25 encryption using state of the art Software Radio, and then co-authoring a paper on it and also showing it off at hacker conferences in front of the Feds, I was somewhat stressed out and needed something simple to play with.

So I bought a HF radio and a morse code key - its actually really good fun and a nice skill to have.

8-)

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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by rustynswrail » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:44 pm

citabria wrote:
Mike Alpha wrote:
citabria wrote:After playing with UHF/VHF for 15 years or so on and off, this HF thing has really got my interest!
You're getting old Matt :)
True that! After playing around hacking and cracking P25 encryption using state of the art Software Radio, and then co-authoring a paper on it and also showing it off at hacker conferences in front of the Feds, I was somewhat stressed out and needed something simple to play with.
So I bought a HF radio and a morse code key - its actually really good fun and a nice skill to have. 8-)
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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by citabria » Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:14 pm

:D

Good one Rusty..

I will add one thing - its a complete prick to learn too!

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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by Longreach » Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:17 pm

I'm scared of morse, takes me long enough to decipher NDB'S
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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by ivahri » Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:30 pm

The beauty of the IC7000 is that it has a RTTY decoder- I sometimes let it run to see who still uses RTTY.

Cheers,

Richard

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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by Bigfella237 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:20 am

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Re: Icom IC-7000

Post by citabria » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:44 pm

ivahri wrote:The beauty of the IC7000 is that it has a RTTY decoder- I sometimes let it run to see who still uses RTTY.

Cheers,

Richard
Now thats one thing I was really interested in when I bought the IC7000 - but I never hear anyone using RTTY...

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