When a person could use 25 watts AM or 100 watts SSB and could modify or buy a used tube type 1000 watt amplifier - it became such a power struggle that most people like me just gave up and turned it off by 1980. Soon after, the death knoll rang for 11 meters… England was only 3000 miles away, and it wasn’t hard to talk across the pond.Īs more and more units were produced, and people made a living souping them up, it became harder and harder to talk.Ībout 1972 - I can remember when the first Yaesu FT 101’s came out. It was nothing to talk to someone in Australia in the morning or someone in California or Oregon in the afternoon. The radio equipment was basically crystal controlled and 23 channels.Īs long as everyone was on a equal playing field, everyone using a legal 4 watt AM / 12 watt PEP SSB transceiver - it was possible to carry on global communications on a almost daily basis back around 1966… Rag chewers, old washer women, little kids - all polluted the airwaves. Hence your basic communications was not 1000’s of miles but just a couple of miles. In the old days - it was a target rich enviroment - where everyone had one and everyone used one. Reliable reception depends on current weather and solar conditions, along with time of day and time of year.Īll AM HF communications is affected by lightning - since there is always a lightning storm somewhere.Ī 104 inch whip is a unbalanced load - in order to be effective on 11 meters - you need to get the antenna at least 36’ off the ground and at least a dipole antenna - 1/2 wave length in size… Preferably a beam type antenna.
All effective communications is line of sight.
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