[Elecraft] OT: Mobile operation "bible"

[Alan]

Ah yes, K6HWL, "Highway Louie".  (His real name was Frank.)  He did 
indeed put a brass toilet ball on the top of his 75 meter mobile antenna 
after he set some overhanging tree branches on fire from the corona 
discharge.  The loading coil was the size of a small trash can.

I ended up with his old Drake L4B linear after he died.  You normally 
don't think to ask if a tube-type KW amplifier has been used mobile! 
The amp was pretty well trashed, but I was able to get it working again.

Alan N1AL


On 04/02/2016 07:38 PM, Wes wrote:
> Jeeze, that's QRP.
>
> My Elmer was a neighbor, Lee, W7UVR.  Before SSB he ran a 4-1000A
> high-level modulated in his mobile.  I can assure you that there weren't
> any toilet tank balls on his antennas.  The need for those is IMHO, an
> old wives tale....

> On 4/2/2016 12:22 PM, Mel Farrer via Elecraft wrote:
>> Yep, and I remember HWL running the ART13 and blew the poorly mounted
>> SS tip off the whip at a convention.  That makes me older than dirt.....