>>> Around 3880 and 8 am was it?
 >  Well if I can worok into the Samoan islands around
 > 6pm Eastern off this old
 > trapped dipole I should be able to work you guys.
I'm not sure where the Samoan Islands are (never was big on DX) but I'd say 
that most of that travel was via open water.
Ground tends to "absorb" some of the RF energy on each hop.
 >  I'll start listening this week just before I go into
 > the plant,from around
 > 7:30 'til 8 Eastern on 3880.
 >  I'm usually gone by 8 unless I'm running late,but
 > I'll try it.
You could possibly hear all kinds of activity there in the "AM Window", 
between 3870 and 3890 emminating from the Northeast.  And, is sure sounds 
like there's going to be LOTS of activiy on this winter around here!
talked to a guy last night about a Solid State, Directly Coupled, descrete 
component audio amplifier.
Going to try to find found 811's in push-pull, parallel (sorry - sweep tubes 
wouldn't work) and take the audio from the output of a speech amp, via a pair 
of DC blocking caps directly from the plates on the output of the speechamp, 
to a hi-Z choke, then the bases of the little transistors.
I';ll tell more about this later.
   73 = Best Regards
   -Jeff KA5THB
   ka5thb@bigfoot.com
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