[Elecraft] RF in the Trees

[Phil Hystad]

I remember that Benjamin Franklin was a short wave listener -- his radio used a rusty key as the detector.  His resonant circuit included a Leyden Jar capacitor.  He quit this hobby though when, during an electrical storm, his lightning protection failed and destroyed his rig.  Embarrassed about making such foolish mistakes, he invented an entirely different story to account for his being out in the storm flying a kite.

73, phil, K7PEH


On Jun 26, 2014, at 9:31 PM, K8JHR <jrichards at k8jhr.com> wrote:

> Short wave listeners use kites and baloons to hold up long wire antennas all the time.   I did this long before becoming a ham.
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> ------------------  K8JHR --------------------------
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> On 6/26/2014 7:24 PM, Slava Baytalskiy wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone's ever used a kite in a field to keep a wire "up".
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