nice rig! skip dead here, cept for mexico on ch 9, and a couple weak stations from Jamaica on lower 38. (N Texas here) and that always puzzles me, skip can be pretty much dead, but can still hear mexico and jamaica a little ☮
Mother nature can be strange.. we have had the Icelandic countries, Africa, Europe, South America Brazil ect ect, America East & West coast, Canada, and many other places around the world coming in today.. but im sure you will get your fair share of it soon enough.
@@Al.26TC101 Hi Al, yes I was surprised at how much his signal held up it's usually like that when using a beam but he said he was using an Antron 99.. I was listening to him for quite a while and his signal never really deviated that much at all.. A nice guy and seems he's got time for more than the usual 5-9, top marks.
I like the sound of the stryker never had one it looks to be a favourite for you .I always keep an eye out for one people i speak to about them recommend early versions
@@technic7762 The mark 1 first edition is by far the better radio compared to my Mark 2, my Stryker receives better than my Yasue FtDx10 and saying that would be a difficult thing to believe if I didn't own both, Some radios are more suited to 11 meters and I have almost every current export radios you can imagine and the Stryker takes some beating, I also have the Stryker Mark 2 and in comparison the Mark 1 wipes the floor with it, it's just a much better early version Anytone board with quality components before they were outsourced to see which company could make them cheap, and cheap takes away the quality, the Mark 2 even feels cheap with brittle plastic on the bezel, also the Mark 1's knobs feel better quality to turn and much smoother, thicker metal on the case and just a more quality feel overall.. There are still Mark 1's out there up for grabs although very hard to come by but well worth it.. you also have to remember it took ten years of research by Stryker who asked customers for their input what they would like in a radio.. Because people were still asking for a Stryker as they had stopped making them the Mark 2 came about to quell the demand and supply.. But unfortunately the quality didn't come with it.. just some input for you to make an informed choice if you was to buy a Stryker.. The Mark 1 is a beautiful radio to use and definitely my number one choice to use out of all my radios.. The Mark 1 is around 14 years old and made at a time before radios were starting to be made cheap, the current export radios are made very cheap and sold at ridiculously high prices, they may have more options on the menu but they pale in performance, with fake signal meters and fake RF gains and riddled with front end noise like the newer presidents aka the George 2 and Washington which I own both of them and they don't even compare.. as I mentioned earlier I have a Yasue FrDX10 and it has everything on it.. yet it sits there on my bench with it's cover on, that says it all.
Góod contact Glen bill in WI USA missed most that days activity but made up on the 8th sun got oin 4 hours non stop all around UK Inc France Ireland Scotland as well as Hawaii big isle and Jamaica on off as others fade back
Hey Bill hope you are well.. im really glad the skip is turning around for you and you are getting those much sort after contacts especially into the UK.. if you hear me calling out your way holla back and I'll certainly reply back to you.. It's good to get some good skip after a shaky start it seems like mother nature is settling down and giving us some great quality propagation. 73 friend.
@@DeltaXray444 yeah I made contact with Maxine? And I mistakingly thought I had Kate on line after I asked her if she was Kate she sounded bothered and miffed that once again she was being mistaken as Kate 01 and pointed she was on other side england ( oops!!!) It was legitimately a mistake she sounded so much like her Looking forward to hearing you maybe today I have a visiting health support group coming today and xyl had to leave earlier than normal for her helping out the family friends daughter expecting a hi risk girl only week away or so here's hoping this stays on track her Dr staff has detected a possible heart valve issue but it has not gotten more noted which is good sign the baby may dßtart more on healthy side
Hi Glen. Hope your all ok bud ? Been a while since we have spoken on the band. And spoken to that old guy we used to speak to in new york. I forget his name now 😂😂🤣. Take it easy my friend. Best 73s. WR456 richy. 🇬🇧
Hi Richard, yeah his name evades me too so I just call him Mr Gandalf 😂 We have had a few contacts over the past few days but at the moment the skip is very unsettled but stateside today was crazy East and West coast all at once and every other state in-between.. hang in there my friend it's about to go nuts.
Hi Glen. Yeah the prop has been great this week. To USA I've got loads of contacts already it's been brilliant. So hopefully it will stay for a while now especially over the winter months otherwise it's a Looooooong winter with no one to talk to. Take it easy bud keep safe. WR456🇬🇧 Richy.
Always nice to have those lengthy contacts Glenn. I see he picked up on your mic, I’m guessing this is what you were telling me about. Did you get anywhere with the beam?
@@gtretroworld Hi Neal.. Those Sharpshooter mics sound incredible on certain radios, they are very loud crystal clear with lots of kick to drive the radio.. many times I will get a compliment and comments on the audio before a signal report.. The beam is cut and sorted and ready to go up in just waiting for better weather and my brother to do the heavy lifting.. im still in recovery so all I can do is point and bark orders 😂 By the way contacted Sirio for exact measurements and the guy said use what it says in the instructions to the frequency you prefer but only cut one side where the gamma match is.. My mind was completely blown when he said that and this guy works for Sirio, make it make sense.. So I've cut both sides for 27.500 .. L1 & L2 are the two pieces of rod for the gamma match and even those don't make sense so when I get around to putting it up im just going to put the gamma match on and try my best to swr it.. the whole install has been a nightmare if you follow the instructions.. I may do a short video showing where to cut it from.. no wonder people can't get a good match the instructions are awful.
@@gtretroworld Trust me when he said that I was shocked to the core.. I still can't get over what the hell the guy was thinking his logic just didn't make sense, there isn't a single beam in the world that is put up with odd lengths.. Truly blew my mind.
@@MattMyers-n7f Hands down the Stryker 955hpc Mark 1 the original. Not the cheapo Mark 2, The Washington like the George 2 has a fake signal meters and an absolutely useless RF gain.. what I mean by signal meter is stations that give you a signal 3 will come in at 9+ It's sounds awful when you have low signals giving you a high reading with all the noise.. it's doesn't look or sit right and because of how the RF gain goes up and down in blocks of four you cannot correct the signal.. one good thing they got right on the Washington and George 2 was the audio they do sound nice even the incoming signals sound nice.. Also there are more options in the menu on the G2 and Washington but they are options that nobody on 11 meters will probably ever use.. Also the cross band bleed over/interference is chronic on the G2 and Washington it's almost as if they have no filtering so anyone near the channel you are talking on will splatter you like crazy regardless of they are interfering on AM FM or SSB.. I have all four the Stryker Mark 1 and 2 and the G2 and Washington once the novelty of using the latter two radios was over I put them back in the box and went back to the Stryker Mark 1.. it's like night and day. I try not to be disrespectful to radios other people use but im always honest.. in this hobby people will always justify the amount of money they spend on a radio and because they are new will swear blind they are excellent radios.. but when you compare them against other radios that really do work well then flaws become obvious.. Even compared to the President McKinley the G2 and Washington feels cheap.. oh yes also the front end noise on the G2 and Washington is horrendous.
@DeltaXray444 wow that's really in depth and comprehensive. So my McKinley is a better radio and no point investing in a Washington? But that's amazing 80 whiskeys surely not? I think McKinley is around 19? Thanks
@@MattMyers-n7f The McKinley is a much better quality working radios.. btw anyone using these new radios turned up to achieve the max output must be nuts.. they get very hot and won't last long.. it's always better to achieve the same output or more watts by using a RM Italy 203, it's much cheaper to replace a cheap linear and save the finals in a radio than to get a radio fixed..
Great signal and contact. ✌✌
@@udx-483muddbucket5 Hey there friend, I had been watching him for over an hour before I spoke to him and his signal barely changed, amazing.
Nice job Glenn!
@@GazzaJollyRoger8152 Thanks Gazza, I logged him down and will certainly listen out for him again, nice enjoyable contact for sure.
nice rig! skip dead here, cept for mexico on ch 9, and a couple weak stations from Jamaica on lower 38. (N Texas here) and that always puzzles me, skip can be pretty much dead, but can still hear mexico and jamaica a little ☮
Mother nature can be strange.. we have had the Icelandic countries, Africa, Europe, South America Brazil ect ect, America East & West coast, Canada, and many other places around the world coming in today.. but im sure you will get your fair share of it soon enough.
Great contact Glenn had a great chat with him today for quite a while was 5/9+ for a long time, great station and top operator. Good stuff. 👍🏻
@@Al.26TC101 Hi Al, yes I was surprised at how much his signal held up it's usually like that when using a beam but he said he was using an Antron 99.. I was listening to him for quite a while and his signal never really deviated that much at all..
A nice guy and seems he's got time for more than the usual 5-9, top marks.
Get the kettle on our Golf Lima Echo November is on line ❤. Love you my friend ❤
Love you too JoJo 💕, miss our live streams they were so much fun maybe we should dress up for hallows eve.. oh wait we already did that 😂
@@DeltaXray444 🤣 The good old days my love ❤️❤️❤️
I like the sound of the stryker never had one it looks to be a favourite for you .I always keep an eye out for one people i speak to about them recommend early versions
@@technic7762
The mark 1 first edition is by far the better radio compared to my Mark 2, my Stryker receives better than my Yasue FtDx10 and saying that would be a difficult thing to believe if I didn't own both, Some radios are more suited to 11 meters and I have almost every current export radios you can imagine and the Stryker takes some beating, I also have the Stryker Mark 2 and in comparison the Mark 1 wipes the floor with it, it's just a much better early version Anytone board with quality components before they were outsourced to see which company could make them cheap, and cheap takes away the quality, the Mark 2 even feels cheap with brittle plastic on the bezel, also the Mark 1's knobs feel better quality to turn and much smoother, thicker metal on the case and just a more quality feel overall..
There are still Mark 1's out there up for grabs although very hard to come by but well worth it.. you also have to remember it took ten years of research by Stryker who asked customers for their input what they would like in a radio..
Because people were still asking for a Stryker as they had stopped making them the Mark 2 came about to quell the demand and supply..
But unfortunately the quality didn't come with it.. just some input for you to make an informed choice if you was to buy a Stryker.. The Mark 1 is a beautiful radio to use and definitely my number one choice to use out of all my radios..
The Mark 1 is around 14 years old and made at a time before radios were starting to be made cheap, the current export radios are made very cheap and sold at ridiculously high prices, they may have more options on the menu but they pale in performance, with fake signal meters and fake RF gains and riddled with front end noise like the newer presidents aka the George 2 and Washington which I own both of them and they don't even compare.. as I mentioned earlier I have a Yasue FrDX10 and it has everything on it.. yet it sits there on my bench with it's cover on, that says it all.
Góod contact Glen bill in WI USA missed most that days activity but made up on the 8th sun got oin 4 hours non stop all around UK Inc France Ireland Scotland as well as Hawaii big isle and Jamaica on off as others fade back
Hey Bill hope you are well.. im really glad the skip is turning around for you and you are getting those much sort after contacts especially into the UK.. if you hear me calling out your way holla back and I'll certainly reply back to you..
It's good to get some good skip after a shaky start it seems like mother nature is settling down and giving us some great quality propagation. 73 friend.
@@DeltaXray444 yeah I made contact with Maxine? And I mistakingly thought I had Kate on line after I asked her if she was Kate she sounded bothered and miffed that once again she was being mistaken as Kate 01 and pointed she was on other side england ( oops!!!)
It was legitimately a mistake she sounded so much like her
Looking forward to hearing you maybe today I have a visiting health support group coming today and xyl had to leave earlier than normal for her helping out the family friends daughter expecting a hi risk girl only week away or so here's hoping this stays on track her Dr staff has detected a possible heart valve issue but it has not gotten more noted which is good sign the baby may dßtart more on healthy side
Hi Glen. Hope your all ok bud ? Been a while since we have spoken on the band. And spoken to that old guy we used to speak to in new york. I forget his name now 😂😂🤣. Take it easy my friend. Best 73s. WR456 richy. 🇬🇧
Hi Richard, yeah his name evades me too so I just call him Mr Gandalf 😂
We have had a few contacts over the past few days but at the moment the skip is very unsettled but stateside today was crazy East and West coast all at once and every other state in-between.. hang in there my friend it's about to go nuts.
Hi Glen. Yeah the prop has been great this week. To USA I've got loads of contacts already it's been brilliant. So hopefully it will stay for a while now especially over the winter months otherwise it's a Looooooong winter with no one to talk to. Take it easy bud keep safe. WR456🇬🇧 Richy.
Always nice to have those lengthy contacts Glenn. I see he picked up on your mic, I’m guessing this is what you were telling me about. Did you get anywhere with the beam?
@@gtretroworld Hi Neal.. Those Sharpshooter mics sound incredible on certain radios, they are very loud crystal clear with lots of kick to drive the radio.. many times I will get a compliment and comments on the audio before a signal report..
The beam is cut and sorted and ready to go up in just waiting for better weather and my brother to do the heavy lifting.. im still in recovery so all I can do is point and bark orders 😂
By the way contacted Sirio for exact measurements and the guy said use what it says in the instructions to the frequency you prefer but only cut one side where the gamma match is..
My mind was completely blown when he said that and this guy works for Sirio, make it make sense..
So I've cut both sides for 27.500 ..
L1 & L2 are the two pieces of rod for the gamma match and even those don't make sense so when I get around to putting it up im just going to put the gamma match on and try my best to swr it.. the whole install has been a nightmare if you follow the instructions.. I may do a short video showing where to cut it from.. no wonder people can't get a good match the instructions are awful.
@@DeltaXray444 I will check out one of those mics sometime Glenn, as for being told to only cut the Gamma side of the beam is ridiculous lol
@@gtretroworld Trust me when he said that I was shocked to the core.. I still can't get over what the hell the guy was thinking his logic just didn't make sense, there isn't a single beam in the world that is put up with odd lengths.. Truly blew my mind.
What's best out of the Stryker or the president Washington? Thanks
@@MattMyers-n7f Hands down the Stryker 955hpc Mark 1 the original. Not the cheapo Mark 2, The Washington like the George 2 has a fake signal meters and an absolutely useless RF gain.. what I mean by signal meter is stations that give you a signal 3 will come in at 9+
It's sounds awful when you have low signals giving you a high reading with all the noise.. it's doesn't look or sit right and because of how the RF gain goes up and down in blocks of four you cannot correct the signal.. one good thing they got right on the Washington and George 2 was the audio they do sound nice even the incoming signals sound nice..
Also there are more options in the menu on the G2 and Washington but they are options that nobody on 11 meters will probably ever use..
Also the cross band bleed over/interference is chronic on the G2 and Washington it's almost as if they have no filtering so anyone near the channel you are talking on will splatter you like crazy regardless of they are interfering on AM FM or SSB..
I have all four the Stryker Mark 1 and 2 and the G2 and Washington once the novelty of using the latter two radios was over I put them back in the box and went back to the Stryker Mark 1.. it's like night and day. I try not to be disrespectful to radios other people use but im always honest.. in this hobby people will always justify the amount of money they spend on a radio and because they are new will swear blind they are excellent radios.. but when you compare them against other radios that really do work well then flaws become obvious..
Even compared to the President McKinley the G2 and Washington feels cheap.. oh yes also the front end noise on the G2 and Washington is horrendous.
@DeltaXray444 wow that's really in depth and comprehensive. So my McKinley is a better radio and no point investing in a Washington? But that's amazing 80 whiskeys surely not? I think McKinley is around 19? Thanks
@DeltaXray444 thanks btw my duck from stoke
@@MattMyers-n7f The McKinley is a much better quality working radios.. btw anyone using these new radios turned up to achieve the max output must be nuts.. they get very hot and won't last long.. it's always better to achieve the same output or more watts by using a RM Italy 203, it's much cheaper to replace a cheap linear and save the finals in a radio than to get a radio fixed..