[Elecraft] Antennas and Aesthetics

[edauer at aya.yale.edu]

Here's another, utterly impractical, solution:

When my wife and I built our weekend home in the Colorado mountains we chose
the site for its natural beauty.  Antennas are unnatural.  I was content
with having only dipoles and Vees, but even they spoiled the view.  So,
every time we were at the house and I wanted to operate, I would raise them
up.  When done, I lowered them, leaving the supporting ropes dangling
against their trees with a snap-bolt on each rope's end.  The dipoles
themselves -- including a multi-band for 10-15-20 and, at the time, Vees for
40 and 80 -- were rolled up, the coax feed lines were disconnected from the
sockets under the deck of the house, and it was all put away out of sight.

I no longer do that, and haven't in recent years given age and a bad
shoulder.  But during the first few years I learned how to deploy and store
my farm in minutes.

Ted, KN1CBR

On Sunday, December 19, 2021, 8:04 PM, Rich WC3T <rich at wc3t.us> wrote:

When we moved to this QTH about 20 years ago my wife (SWMBO) remarked on how
the location was perfect for ham radio as we are on top of a smallish hill.
? So. Much. Win. ?Or so I thought.?
Years later when I had the temerity to launch an OCF dipole across two
trees, the first words out of her mouth were ?What is THAT POS?? ??
Obviously she didn?t have the same mentalImage as I did. ? I quietly filed
the tower plans and am now QRP mobile. ?

72,
Rich Hurd / WC3T /?DMR:?3142737??Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public
Information Officer for ScoutingGrid:?FN20is