11 meter band, listening to....(don't know)

sunday morning 13jan2008 11:55hours local time
(QTH Belgium..)listening to Brasil or Portuguese radio-stations on an old Colt Excalibur SSB..

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• cb
• 11meter
• SSB
• Brasil
• Belgium
• cq
• dx

[BananaJSSI]

Nice radio! Is that  DAK? Looks old school. A-99 antenna?

[micheldezanger]

@BananaJSSI colt excalibur...same as Jumbo1...antenna is now dismantled(was a GPA 5/8...Now i'm using inverted V 

[BananaJSSI]

@micheldezanger I used a V-Quad back in the 1970's. It worked great for DX

[micheldezanger]

@BananaJSSI haha back in the seventies here in Belgium...cb was illegal, or let us say hardly legal...so the antennas were often well hidden....

[BananaJSSI]

@micheldezanger That is very interesting because back in the 1970's I would work Germany on the DX. I have many QSL cards I have received from there, lol. I ran a Hy Gain Quad Beam way up high on a tower with a 500 watt Linear amp.

[micheldezanger]

@BananaJSSI end the seventies propagation was good for DX, and with your 500watt on a 4element beam, i'm sure you worked the whole world!!! ...I did some nice contacts, but not in a legal way....I had a HAM international concorde, and a Jumbo back in time...without amp and on a vertical 5/8

73

[BananaJSSI]

@micheldezanger Nice set up you had! I did indeed work the world many many times. I still work DX daily. Ireland two days ago, Hawaii every night and lots of Australia. I will put up my Di-pole antenna tomorrow. I will set it on the horizontal for DX. I also had a 5/8 ground Place back in the 70's and early 80's. It was a Hy-Gain Penetrator.

[PTdarkGhost]

34 LSB is used for Portugueses truck drivers but not else, many people used that mode and frequency to speak with trucker driver when he go for other european counties to make your deliveries.

73's (31 Division)

[CX2ABP]

Correct: this guys talks in portuguese (not brazilian). Good catch. 73

[29pu04]

slip down to the 000 on those channels on lsb for stateside dx