[Elecraft] Are you satisfied with your K3?

[Robert G. Strickland]

Wayne...

Another demo of the well known fact that a 50-100w light bulb load with filament 
aligned with the correct magnetic field declination for the particular QTH will 
entrain polar field ions and function as a 4-el monobander. People are always 
forgetting this effect and spending money on big yagis, trying to recapture the light 
bulb ion effect. Old timers are useful for keeping this type of info available for 
new hams.

...robert

On 12/7/2012 03:53, Wayne Burdick wrote:

> In my teens, freshly licensed, I had a Heath DX20 and a Hallicrafters S38D. The
> highlight of my first few months was working a guy 2000 miles away on a 60-W-lamp
> dummy load and 6' of leaky RG58. I later upgraded to a Heath HW-16 and had a blast.
>

> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>

-- 
Robert G. Strickland, PhD, ABPH - KE2WY
rcrgs at verizon.net
Syracuse, New York, USA