[Boatanchors] Thank You!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Ron,

Curious. What happened to the loading when it rained? The degree of 
conductivity certainly went up, way up.

I have heard of several who did use a wire tacked under the roof overhang. 
The neighbors could not see it and the XYL could not complain about that 
ugly fifty foot piece of rusty metal with a cloud caught on the top of it! 
The guys who used this seemed to think it worked quite well under the 
conditions. Maybe so, but I will bet that the solar cycle was near optimum.



I do remember a kid who used a coat hanger he stuck into the SO-239 antenna 
connector on a CB rig. Poof! No loss! This guy was a few bricks shy of a 
chimney!

DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Bonddaleena at aol.com>
To: <dfischer at usol.com>; <RKofler at aol.com>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Thank You!


> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <RKofler at aol.com>
> To:  <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:22  PM
> 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
>
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