A Past Life:

Here I am at The Owada HF Receiver Site in the mid 90's. I'm the one standing blocking part of the sign. This was in Japan about an two hours from Tokyo. The site has been there since right after the war.

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This is the site in 1955. It housed radios used to communicate with the B-52's during the Cold War...
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They are in fact radio receivers...with very High Power Transmitters that had to be housed about 30 miles away at another site. I also worked at the transmitter site from 1984-1988. Those transmitters put out 10,000 watts of HF power!

The radio receiver site in the picture housed well over 50 radios associated with 5 different systems.

Let me tell you there was no room for a failure when the B-52's were in the air...

Here is a HF Rotate-able Log Periodic Antenna at the Transmitter site.

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Here's one of mine. This is a two-way radio - transmitter and receiver in one housing. It's for satellite communication with earth, and it works at 30GHz (30,000,000,000Hz). It has to handle some nasty G's, so it is pretty solidly made. But to transmit high speed data between satellite and earth, all it produces is 2 watts of power. That's all you need.

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DonP said:
Here's one of mine. This is a two-way radio - transmitter and receiver in one housing. It's for satellite communication with earth, and it works at 30GHz (30,000,000,000Hz). It has to handle some nasty G's, so it is pretty solidly made. But to transmit high speed data between satellite and earth, all it produces is 2 watts of power. That's all you need.

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That's about the size of the PA Tube in a 10KW HF Transmitter. :D
 
And here i thought my modded President HR 2510s were good. love radio and i have a Sirio Verticle antenna up at my house for 10/11 meter.its basically outlaw CB Radio. i talk skip when conditions are there.and ya i stay off the Ham bands
 
JohnnyGoo said:
And here i thought my modded President HR 2510s were good. love radio and i have a Sirio Verticle antenna up at my house for 10/11 meter.its basically outlaw CB Radio. i talk skip when conditions are there.and ya i stay off the Ham bands
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Skip is interesting. I've designed in the past for Tropospheric Scatter, which is similar. If ever you see a huge dish pointed at the horizon, that's what it is doing. You pump a huge amount of power sideways, and hundreds of miles away, as the signal eventually climbs to the troposphere, it hits swirling ionisation and bathes the ground below in signal.
 
ChasFred said:
Here I am in a past life with a student of my passing his 1st Degree Black Belt test.View attachment 637
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Osu! Which style is that?

I've always been fond of martial arts. Grew up with Judo (was studying and training for the black belt when I had a hip injury and doctors told me to quit and choose a discipline that didn't involve getting thrown onto the ground many times a day); boxed as an amateur at a local gym before boxing became this sissy workout we see at gyms now, but it lacked the martial philosophy and eastern appeal I liked so much in Judo...

So I finally took Shotokan Karate. This pic was taken a good while ago, I was a beginner (I'm the one with the red belt):

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I really live by it now,
 
The style was Tang Soo Do. A Korean style. I would also add Ju-Jit Su in the self defense part of the classes. I am the one on the right.
 
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