[Azham] The Forty Metre Beer-Can Special

[John P Slusser]

----- 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 9:06 PM
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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