[Elecraft] Antennas an opinion W9VNE

[Jim Campbell]

I can't speak for our bretheren in the Rockies, but most of the people 
in my part of the Appalachians live in the valleys with mountains around 
us. I don't live there now but I did grow up there. Utilities, 
especially water, are very expensive on mountaintops and icy roads in 
the Winter are deterrents. Also, electric storms in the Summer are 
terrifying.

Jim - W4BQP
K2/100 #2268

On 3/16/2020 3:32 PM, KENT TRIMBLE wrote:
> Which is why we Midwesterners are always at a disadvantage against you 
> brethren in the Rockies and the Appalachians -- on two scores:
>
> 1)  Height above sea-level is greater on a mountaintop than in a corn 
> field (didn't know that, did you).
>
> 2)  Temperatures are cooler and humidity is lower on a mountaintop 
> than in a corn field (another revelation).
>
> But we like challenges.
>
> On occasion, a buddy and I have been known to win QRP multi-op honors 
> from prairie picnic tables on blistering summer afternoons, and a 
> decade or so ago saw our club win 3rd in the nation in a similar QRP 
> 1A Battery Field Day.
>
> But who's bragging.  Fun has many definitions.
>
> 73,
>
> Kent  K9ZTV
>