Yes, the blog really has them twisted in knots running everywhere they can to defend both lying about the locations used and calling their heavily modified 100 watt radios “barefoot”. We first covered the “barefoot” marketing blitz and scam nearly 6 months ago and predicted that this would happen. Now we wait for the latest scam since this one is backfiring in a spectacular way.
We knew that RabbiPorkChop sought out a friendly environment at Truckers Report to try to gain acceptance and nearly a week later it has not happened. What he got was a virtual “meh, that’s not hard to do” from the very people he expected to get pats on the back from. Here at the blog I now have some fact checkers and people I can run these things past and before I wrote the first article about it I already had my checkers showing me formulas and data and images that I used in the blog posts from some place where you get.. that.. stuff.. from.
While at truckers report he got his first negative answer….
is this something that was measured or this is a calculation? Line of sight for vhf at 1000 ft is approximately 40nm and at 1500 ft its 50nm (most pilots know these numbers). Line of sight is exactly what it says, a straight line calculation. “Radio Horizon” is how far a direct radio signal can travel across the earth and is somewhat longer than line of sight. So with 50nm being about 57 miles, that 65 mile point is perfectly reasonable.
We knew that already. In fact we used a mentioned 50 mile spot in the video to get Rabbi worked up to go bouncing off the romper room walls over the the 70 whatever miles. And, he lied even more, because he has to lie to cover the lie. Yes, we trolled him. It was fun. but his 50 mile point WAS line of sight and there isn’t shit he can say to change that. Eat it. His response was to try to justify it as some miracle. And the second response was, again, not what he wanted to get.
AND I said this before, RF is unpredictable and can’t be always explain.
One possibility is that there is an NVIS effect going on caused by the second peak, even in mobile applications.
Which, again, we knew was a possibility according to my notes. Again, nothing special. Then a fine tine troll (Craig) chimed in with loss and bouncy signals… to try to justify the “miracle” along with Rabbi talking about his signal getting better as he climbed the mountain. Well, no shit? That tends to happen?
And again, a non Fine Tune affiliated response… not a pat on the back….
As Ridgeline said it sounds a lot like NVIS propagation if you were on CB. That distance is pretty typical for that. It is not something you can rely one, as he also said RF is unpredictable.
Things… are pretty typical. Nothing to see here, move along. BUT! in comes the redefinition of barefoot I mentioned…. and a conditional “pat on the back” if you did it BAREFOOT as in not using a high powered heavily modified radio, because this is how people define barefoot – not a high powered heavily modified radio.
Thanks for the demo, Rabbi. It’s a great example of how mysterious RF can be sometimes, and that makes the hobby all-the-more interesting! The caveat for a novice is to not let the exception be the rule in regards to bragging rights. After all, this achievement was done on 4 Watts, if I correctly interpret what “barefoot” means.
He correctly interpreted what barefoot is. Not using any power or mods. This might have been an achievement to this poster if it was done on a stock AM/SSB radio. It was not. So, no achievement. Sorry Rabbi. It’s been several days going on a week and you are not impressing anyone even on a forum that is Fine Tune friendly. And… Rabbi Responds with…
It was not done at 4 Watts. It was done without amplifiers. It was the first time in the 14 years I’ve lived in the area that any radio has transmitted from a distance lower than mile marker 232 to the location I was sitting.
And.. the admission with omission. “done without amplifiers” but not with 4 watts. More like 100 watts. What they are not telling you is that they are using 8x more power than a typical SSB CB radio. These are so-called “export radios” with built-in amplifiers and the radios are heavily modified.
Then someone gets it… drum roll…..
You have to remember that Rabbi isn’t using a cb radio, so the word “barefoot” is misleading.
BANG.
This isn’t a “tune”. It’s mountaintop locations with high powered radios that have built in amplifiers with no skip so things are quiet.
Integrity. Get some.
The Blog. Click Click.
And for our honorable mention…. RabbiPorkChop made a comment on a Fine Tune CB video that I was not going to bother to write about because there were no outlandish claims made. He likes his knob. All he did was talk to some guy from his mountaintop location and didn’t hide it. He even pointed it out! Nothing special. But Rabbi had to ruin it for him:
That’s a pretty good trip with those big mountains in between. Coincidence after coincidence after coincidence after coincidence is never a coincidence. Kind of funny how those radios work well together. Gee, I wonder why?
Really Rabbi? What mountains? the one he is sitting on top of? Oh, and the other guy wasn’t in Deming. He was 20 miles WEST of Deming. So this was a 40 mile roughly pretty much line of sight trip. It’s flat out there, and unimpressive.That “big mountain” represented, what, 40 feet? Give us a break man. BIG mountains! More like a sand dune. But then again a quarter or a half a block for you is MILES away, right?
Get lost.
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