[Elecraft] what tripod to use?

[CUTTER DAVID]

Here's your equivalent at Home Depot:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Honey-Can-Do-Inground-Umbrella-Shaped-Dryer-DRY-05262/300532316

Still quite popular over here, though not as expensive:
  https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-rotary-airer-40m/p/0432698

David G3UNA
 
> On 01 August 2020 at 19:25 Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I think he's talking about the inverted umbrella-like thingys popular in 
> the 40's and 50's that resemble a Hexbeam or HF Moxon of today.  Been a 
> long time since I've seen one
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
> 
> On 7/31/2020 4:27 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
> > On 7/31/2020 2:26 AM, CUTTER DAVID via Elecraft wrote:
> >
> >> A cheap and exceedingly sturdy tripod is a re-cycled/re-purposed rotary washing line.
> > With all due respect, I had to re-read that several times to picture
> > that device.  Are you referring to the inverted pyramid upon which one
> > hangs washing out to dry?  As a suburban dweller who has used an
> > electric clothes dryer all of my adult life I haven't seen one of them
> > for many decades.  :)
> >
> > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> > Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
> >
> >
> 
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