[Elecraft] A Good Antenna Length?

[Jim's Desktop]

  Been there, done that one too.  Hamfest in Concordia, KS back in the 
early 80's just after I retired from the Army.  Used an old Ten-Tec 
Argonaut and loaded the entire gutter system at the motel the hamfest 
was held at.  There was so much corrosion in the joints that even the 5 
watt Argonaut wiped out TV reception throughout the whole motel.  Worked 
a whole bunch of stations on 20 meters too.  Good thing they never 
figured out where the problem was coming from - LOL!

Jim - W0EB

------ Original Message ------
From: "Wayne Burdick" <n6kr at elecraft.com>
To: "Nr4c" <nr4c at widomaker.com>
Cc: "Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>; "Jim GM" 
<jim.gmforum at gmail.com>
Sent: 7/4/2014 6:20:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] A Good Antenna Length?

>
>On Jul 4, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Nr4c <nr4c at widomaker.com> wrote:
>
>>  I once worked a friend who'd just moved and was using a "GutterTron" 
>>ant in the CQWW. Yeah, the gutter and downspout fed against a 
>>ground-rod.
>>
>>  Another friend loaded up the liner in his chimney, called a 
>>GutterTron.
>
>
>I worked all over the country on 10 and 15 meters recently using a 
>large metal window frame (5' x 8' picture window) as the antenna. I 
>used alligator clips directly from the KX3 to two spots on the frame, 
>experimenting with spacing. This is not described in the literature, 
>but it worked. The ATU tuned up the window frame to ~1.0:1 on 20-6 
>meters.
>
>Wayne
>N6KR
>
>
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