[Boatanchors] Thank You!

[Bonddaleena at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/7/2006 5:47:11 PM Eastern  Standard Time, 
dfischer at usol.com writes:
And have fun Roger does indeed! You  should hear him on the air, 110% 
modulation, a little wide signal 8Khz+/-,  some kind of background noise that 
sounds like a Woodpecker with a Titanium  beak trying to peck his way into a 
Collins R-390! I have to give him credit  though, as he is the only Ham I 
know who has his metal rain down spouts tied  to his barb wire security fence 
and loads it up without a tuner!  (LOL!)

He is a great guy, operates a good station and always enjoyable to  QSO with 
too. Truthfully I do have a 1955 ARRL handbook with margin notes  about 
loading a metal window screen and metal evestroughs. Any of you ever  do that 
in the old days?

DBF


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Subject: [Boatanchors] Thank You!


>A lot of guys like to  recreate their Novice station, but I like to restore
> and operate the top  of the line stuff from when I was a Novice that I 
> couldn't
>  afford to touch at the time. Just have fun!
>
> Roger
>  K7DDG
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Rain gutters? You bet! As a Novice my parents and I lived on the second  
floor of a large house that had metal (and NOT Aluminum!) downspouts. Although I  
had a 40 M Dipole, the gutters heard signals better. No doubt due to the  
omnidirectional square shape, plus the vertical components on all 4  
corners.....Since my Knight T150 could load into anything, I didn't have to  worry about 
the rig 'folding back the output', as newer radios do today.
I enjoyed the receiver of that station so much (a Lafayette HE-80), I know  
own, er, several... ha ha 
 
 
ron
 
N4UE