Beams with v-5000 on top

[drdx]

Now we're talkin. You say the folks are around you. Is this why you need the vertical? If you're trying to lock it down, having a beam is like having an army tank with that one big gun. At any moment, the enemy can crawl up on the back and drop a grenade down the hatch. A group of local jerks can have a crippling effect on a beam if they surround it. I'd track them all down, make some 5 gallon bucket camo'd transmitters and plug their ears, one bucket per station, rendering them defenseless. Make sure you get on and talk at the same time so they think it is someone else. Get creative with the rf bombs. I once put one on top of a football field pressbox using a car battery, a deadkeyed mobile, and a mag mount all in the form of an old ammo box and literally shut down an entire area of ears due to it being so high. If they run bases and power, and you have enough of a mobile, roll over there and chatter their relays. Drive by during prime time tv, run power, and use their handle, describe their car, insult the neighbors houses, so all of the neighbors hear their handle and address over their tv. These types only understand one language- brute force. -drdx

[153]

they are all in "little mobile units" 1000 watts or less. They all are in the same direction. i never need to turn except to talk to friendlys out the back. Thats where I need my v-5000.

[drdx]

Dang, and here I was hoping for some fun stationary targets. Do they sit in the same place at all? Mobiles can be like fire ants, all over and painful. Pumped up ones are like a mound of them. I know, I've been one and the recipient of them.

-drdx

[153]

But yea that's why I need vertical. they are about 15-20 miles away from me and 10-15 miles away from each other. I am at about 150 foot to the bottom of my beam. I can get all between them. I just about belive if the v-5000 could handle the power i could lock em down with it.

[drdx]

If they are that far away and spread out, you almost need a beam with a wider pattern, like a 3 element, but I'd never go down in elements. It would spread your wrath of terror though, taking it from a lazer beam to a huge wedge shaped mushroom cloud of good clean transmitting. How about an RF transmitter right between them? I'm sure they'd make it over it but it would be an irritant, especially combined with your signal from home. -drdx

[153]

they all park in the same place for the most part. They have little antennas in trees at their house and hook up to them. Kinda fits their IQ It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the explicit language and when I say bad I MEAN BAD.

[153]

I got a set of m-103s. but I can put it right down their throat with the 5's. I am the only person on my road so I can run all the power I want. I am tring to find a good deal on a 12 pill. I'm tubing it right now.

[drdx]

Well, from their shoe size IQ, I'd think that individuals of that operating level with power would be already tearing up tv's. If they're any distance apart and doing the tree antenna deal, the hidden transmitter assault would work as that setup falls prey to the same things as a base station.

There are other channels. For a family scene maybe use channel 3A (26.995), 7a, 11a,15a, or 19a as a safe haven, staying inside the band where swr's are good, unless they just chase you down. Turned away, on a nice hidden channel, you wouldn't need the power and wouldn't be bleeding on them, and could probably go unnoticed.

-drdx

[153]

We used to be on 26.975 but now are on 26.905 and they are there. Its just the point I guess. There is about 8 of us in our little chat group then there are those 3 morons. I have no problem shuttin down. It is just all my other buddies are behind or off on the corners. I just really use the v for talking in our group. What i have works but I have two towers and really just want 1.

[firefyter]

At the range you are talking, if you put the beam on the flat side, no one will be able to tell the difference between horizontal and vertical. I'd put the beam flat and the omni above it. When setup correctly your omni won't be directional at all. I ran the same setup for quite a while at 100' and I could talk anywhere I wanted to talk

[drdx]

There will always be a difference vertical to flat locally if a horizontal is talking to a vertical, but if you were all on the flat and the jerks were vertical you'd enjoy a 20db benefit due to the cross polarization drop that their signals would have on your flat crew, and you the same on them.

-drdx

[153]

Yea, ive done tried the horizontal thing and didn't like it. I could not hear any mobils and the bases were weak.