Sunday, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:00
G'day Bob,
Yeah, it sure is interesting. As you may have gathered I used to a professional radio operator - on all things from the smallest man pack up to massive land based installations using satellite technology. It is theory, and nothing else.
To add to your interesting story, many years back when living in Singapore in my army days, we used to quite regularly pick up the sound channel of a Bangkok TV station. It used to occasionally break through on one of the weaker Malaysian channels we used to watch.
As for how far you can get if you really want to. When I was a the army School of Signals, the officer who taught antenna theory set up an experiment with an A510 portable man pack transveiver [you old blokes reading this will know it].
He designed a folded half wave dipole antenna for this thing. We erected it in the grounds of the Signals school, and attempted to communicate in both voice and morse with the SAS base in Karacatta WA. After about 4 hours we finally got through on both morse and voice.
The amazing thing was the power ouotputs - 500milliwatts on Morse and 200 milliwatts on voice.
As I said - theory [which sometimes works better than the book]
Goran, I agree with Bob - it would be nice to make a radio contact with you over here in Qld one day.
What do you do for a crust? you always seem to be in the bush you lucky bugger. My brother has a job like that over in WA. He is the Northwest WA manager of a company loosely aligned with the mining industry and based in
Karratha. He spends most of his time in the
Pilbara and Kimberly in his company provided GU Patrol. What a life.
Bob - aint the
Gregory area a beautiful place?
That river has the sweetest water - I hope it stays that way with all the
grey nomads camped on the banks near the pub. I was reading in the paper recently that some of them are doing "nasties" in the river. dirty old bastards.
regards
DennisN
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