Any HAM Operators Operate out of Youre Cabins?

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justinbowser Member	# Posted: 20 Nov 2019 01:12am Reply We are going up to our cabin in the low mountains of SE OK over Thanksgiving week and I am going to take my HF rig along with a portable dipole antenna and operate from the boonies. I am expecting background noise to be much less than my location in town.

toyota_mdt_tech Member	# Posted: 20 Nov 2019 08:24am - Edited by: toyota_mdt_tech Reply 73 from a fellow ham here too. License since 93. Extra class, so have all privileges, just no 160 meter capable antenna from home. There is actually quite a few hams in here, it would really surprise you. I have spoken to several of them on the bands. I host a field day event at my place, we fill all the campsites up with my ham buddies, noise floor is about 0 on battery. I have done the field day thing at cabin since 2013, so next year, we call it the 8th annual Double J Field Day Event and all campsites are spoken for. We make room if more want to attend. We have a big spaghetti feed after friday set up, then hang around the rangers cabin ragchewing and eyeball QSO's. Fantastic time.

justinbowser Member	# Posted: 20 Nov 2019 09:33am - Edited by: justinbowser Reply Cool! I like the sound, or lack of sound, of that 0 noise floor! I was a Novice in the late 60s but I never could get my code speed over about 10 WPM so that where it stopped. I just got my General a couple of months ago.

CabinBuilder Admin	# Posted: 24 Nov 2019 03:36am - Edited by: CabinBuilder Reply Some older thread on the topic: How many ham radio operators in here?

SE Ohio Member	# Posted: 24 Nov 2019 11:42am Reply Iâ€™m off grid and close to being on a ridge top. Iâ€™ve had good luck with a cheap 25 watt 2 meter rig and a homemade beam antenna. Iâ€™ve had simplex conversations 70 miles or more easily. Iâ€™ve hooked up a ~120 foot long wire antenna for receive only, works great with antique tube Zenith Transoceanic radio, receiving stations both domestic and international. Iâ€™m planning on adding a baking and trying with transceiver at some point. SE Ohio

SE Ohio Member	# Posted: 24 Nov 2019 11:55am Reply 2 meter beam antenna plan, easy weekend project http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/9304054.pdf

justinbowser Member	# Posted: 2 Dec 2019 01:14pm Reply I took the old Yaesu FT-707 up to the cabin and worked a few stations with the MFJ portable dipole. Amazing how quiet 40M was! Will need to probably get a different inverter as I had to operate from generator due to interference from Samlex 1500. Next summer I will probably put up a dual band inverted V like I have at home QTH.