[Azham] The Forty Metre Beer-Can Special

[Taliesin MacAran]

Looks like someone has had too one many bans of ceers!

----- Original Message -----
From: "David French, N7FAN" <n7fan@qsl.net>
To: "Reflector, AZ Ham" <azham@mailman.qth.net>; "Reflector, AZ ARC Comm"
<azarccomm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 21:06
Subject: [Azham] The Forty Metre Beer-Can Special


> Take one empty beer-can and carefully solder it to another empty can.
Make
> sure that the joint is clean and dry and has good electrical contact.
>
> Take another beer-can, carefully consume the contents, and then solder
this
> to the other two.  I mean, solder it to the end of one of the other
> bean-cans.
>
> You should now have the beginningings of a vertical antanna for forty
> metres.  You have three or some more beet-cans soldiered together making a
> total length of about 1.5 feets or half a meter.  Only about 31.5 foots
(or
> 63 beem cans to go!!)
>
> Empty the insides out of the insides of ceer ban number five.  Ensure
inside
> is empty and glue with hot silver stuff to another beer kan what have been
> emptied outisde before and joined to some more.  Getting longer huh?
> (Please xcuse  little drift in vernak varnakul strait talk--even tecknicle
> authors are human, are human somethimes human or.)
>
> Rememember the gold rule.  'Longer antenners are better in length than
> shorter ones are shorter.'  To quote the well-know formular--length in
> megacycles is 468 over wavelength in feet multiplumed by dead-electric
> constant.
>
> Empty too more cans of bees and stick together with more shouldering.
>
> Jusht keep soldiering on one beef can to anuzzer been can until you retch
> about 30 foots in long.
> Then test resornent  flatulance with a anerlyz anil thing that meazures
> things.  Add some more barf cans if two short or unsouldi unsoldiia  take
> some away if too short.
>
> Ingore  two much pane in fingers from 2 much soldiering.
>
> Carefully dig ground steak and add dirt if non presents.  Plaice forty
metre
> verticle up strait in horizontel possess possi plaice up right in ground
but
> take care to isilate from stuff what I can't remember what is called
earth.
>
> Feed antenner from bottem or top (who cares?) with zip cords or nice
little
> coaxially wire stuff (a  prettly little wire runing inside a fat wire
> outside at 50 mph or 72 mhos)  and then sit bak and work DX.
>
> WARNING:  From experinecience do not make  misteak  of     puting  full
cans
> at topp of antenner and emptie at bottem.  Thish  makes it very dangrous
for
> close neybors in bad Wx.
>
>
>
> David French, N7FAN
> Chandler, AZ
>
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