[Elecraft] Elecraft AX-1 Whip Antenna

[Fred Jensen]

A colleague at work showed up with a fairly bad case of poison oak.  We 
lived in a rural area in the Sierra Nevada foothills, had a lot of 
poison oak, and also had a lot of manzanita, the leaves of which, when 
boiled to make a solution and spread on, will really help.  So, I 
collected a bag of leaves for him, and told him to "boil the leaves and 
use the solution with cotton balls."  Next morning, he wasn't any 
better.  I asked him if he'd done what I said.  He replied, "Yes, I used 
the whole pan, and it tastes terrible!  I was barely able to get it 
down.  What was I supposed to do with the cotton balls?"

73,

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

>> On Sep 25, 2022, at 7:17 PM, Wayne Burdick<n6kr at elecraft.com>  wrote:
>>
>> No. But try on a little poison oak followed by a hot shower. OMG. That’s the nice burn.
>>
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>>> On Sep 25, 2022, at 12:11 PM, Fred Jensen<k6dgwnv at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> There is no such thing as a "nice" RF burn.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
>>> Sparks NV DM09dn
>>> Washoe County
>>>
>>> Steve L wrote on 9/24/2022 6:36 PM:
>>>> Caution when using this location:  Make sure your counterpoise is insulated and there’s no way to contact bare metal at this point with your hand when using the KX2 hand-held ‘walkie-talkie’ style.  I received a nice RF burn on my hand at this point once!
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>> AA8AF
>>>>
>>>>



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