[Elecraft] Reaching across the chronological divide

[CUTTER DAVID]

There was indeed a Loudenboomer made by a Brit back in the 60s / 70s and I think it was G3TPW Steve Webb who moved on to make the Cobwebb antenna. 

David G3UNA

> On 04 January 2021 at 13:14 Louandzip via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>  "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." ?
>     On Sunday, January 3, 2021, 8:13:49 PM MST, Hank via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:  
>  
>  Is there a Loudenboomer III???  I must go buy it - I only have a Loundenboomer II!
> 
> > On Jan 3, 2021, at 7:07 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Maxwell assured us that, if you get RF current to flow in a conductor that isn't buried deeply, it will radiate. The the direction(s) of that radiation may not be where you wish, but it will radiate.  This weakend, I made 127 QSO's in the ARRL RTTY Round-Up on 15, 20, 40, and 80 with 100W [K3] to a HOA-stealthy WOOF antenna [Wire On Organic Fence: 41 m, end-fed, 1.8 m AGL].
> > 
> > I have noticed since the days when you built your TX from parts scarfed from old TV sets:
> > 
> > 1.  Newer hams seem to believe that there is one "perfect" way to build an antenna or use your radios and anything else will fail;
> > 
> > 2.  Newer hams, and some of the older ones, like to connect every possible accessory and every possible computer/software product to their radios;
> > 
> > 3.  And when that doesn't work, the first question to the email list members is, "My Loudenboomer III won't key.  Any ideas what's wrong?"  Somehow, the art of isolating the pieces, such as, "disconnect the keyer/computer/software and plug in a hand key -- or short the key line -- does it key now?" has been lost in a sea of technology no one understands.
> > 
> > If the best of forecasts for Cycle 25 materialize, you will be able to repeat the late 50's/early 60's and work the world on 10 m 24/7 with 15 W to the window screen.  Happy New Year to all, activate safely.
> > 
> > 73,
> > 
> > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> > Sparks NV DM09dn
> > Washoe County
> > 
> >> On 1/3/2021 2:39 PM, Joseph Shuman via Elecraft wrote:
> >> I simply like the challenge of making contacts with antennas, in the opinion of the more learned, “that won’t work.”  I have been told to “Read the antenna book” because my experiments are “illogical.”  I guess I have to delete the contact I made using a chicken wire antenna?  Let’s all remember that Maxwell, Marconi, Hertz, Popov, Bose, Hughes and Fr. Roberto Landell de Moura did not have the internet or the Antenna Book.  They had each other.
> >> 
> >> Joe Shuman, NZ8P
> >> 
> > 
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