Please leave it at home!
Just got back from a 4 day weekend. Weather was beautiful and campground was only about 20% full and then "that guy" decided to park next to us. Nice enough couple but then he got out some kind of...
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Tango, AE7UI wrote:
dons2346,
I am a ham operator and 99.99% of us would not do that sort of thing.
I would suggest he may have had a short wave receiver and not a ham rig.
Did you see a microphone?
Yes he had a mike. He would announce his call letters and location then do his thing. Is that ham or shortwave? The squealing while he modulated from high to low and back I assumed was shortwave.
The wire he shot up in the tree had a string-rope attached to the other end that he tied back to the trailer to keep tension on the wire. He also had a what looked like a separate 12V battery system to power it.
RoyB, what I was suggesting was if you cannot use a headset or be respectable then yes leave it at home.
Since we are avid hikers and spent little time around the trailer during the day we were subjected it between 7-11 PM.
