[Elecraft] Pwr<>Antenna

[Paul Gates]

Fred... Back in the 60s I used 2 hustler ant. on the rear of the car or 
station wagon as the case might be .... to a Drake TR4 On a trip to Fla from 
Tenn. I secured a florescent tube vertically to the 2 antennas. I did not 
get stopped by the police at night whenever I talked they lit up!
Paul Gates
Elecraft K1 #231
XG1
kd3jf at hotmail.com
"An idle mind is the devil's workshop."
And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Jensen" <k6dgw at foothill.net>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Pwr<>Antenna


> 50 watts from a Harvey-Wells TBS50 Bandmaster to a Webster Band Spanner
> in a 1953 Plymouth powered by a PE-103 dynamotor caused enough corona on
> 10m for me that on a dark night parked at the observatory in Griffith
> Park, I attracted the attention of several cops with "flames" leaping
> from my antenna.  First and only time since I've been approached by a
> cop with his gun drawn.
>
> Fred K6DGW
> Auburn CA CM98lw
>
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> > One of their frequent problems was that a huge corona discharge
>  > would often leap off of the tip of the antenna, producing huge
>  > distortion on the signal.
>
>
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