[Elecraft] EFHW

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Hi Fred, 


When I started DXing in about 1962, Solar Cycle 19 was quite weak 
and reached its minimum in 1964, the year I made the #1 USA low 
power score in the ARRL CW DX Contest using my 20 meter Happy 
Accident Ground Plane and a variety of other wire antennas suspended 
from that same maple tree in an urban area in the city of Providence, RI 


http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Images/Educational/The%20Sun%20and%20Solar%20Activity/Solar%20Cycle/Solar%20Cycle%2019.png 


My antennas are a little better now... 


https://www.qrz.com/db/W3LPL 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 



----- Original Message -----

From: "Fred Jensen" <k6dgw at foothill.net> 
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 7:33:11 PM 
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] EFHW 

In the 1960's, you could work the world with 20 watts to a window 
screen. Peak of Cycle 19 was in the front half of the 60's. [:-) 

73, 

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW 
Sparks NV DM09dn 
Washoe County 

On 2/13/2017 9:41 AM, donovanf at starpower.net wrote: 
> I used a 20 meter "Happy Accident Ground Plane" mounted 50 feet 
> 
> up in a maple tree for many years when I was in Rhode Island during 
> the 1960s and worked the world with it. 
> 
> 73 
> Frank 
> W3LPL 
> 

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