[GreenKeys] Phone pole drop wire

[Lee Mushel]

The other day I commented to the XYL that the number of amateur radio
operators was dropping and she immediately responded with a "how can it be
otherwise?"   "You people get these kids interested in the hobby and then
you just leave them sit fending for themselves when all their friends are
comfortably texting on their cell phones."

I had to think about her words for a while....

73

Lee   K9WRU
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Fors" <wb6nvh at mbay.net>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 3:30 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Phone pole drop wire


> Larry, you mean the drop wire from the phone pole to the house actually is
> supposed to have copper wire in it?  The ones at my house are twin little
> rubber hoses full of green powder, and date from the Eisenhower era.  They
> won't change them unless forced to.
>
> I had the deluxe Comcast cable ground wire, attached to the PVC water line
> also.
>
> Went to help a younger ham in town a few years ago who was having trouble
> with a BC-610 transmitter he had gotten somewhere.   His antenna was a 65
> foot hank of bell wire thrown out an aluminum framed window to a tree.
The
> "antenna" had arced over to the window frame and blown about a 1 inch
chunk
> out of it.  He did not have the antenna tuner either.  I saw a piece of #
18
> bell wire heading out the door of his bedroom and out the back door, on
the
> floor.  Following it, it went to a 24 inch copper rod pounded into a large
> flower pot (!) on the back porch, and the other end was screwed to the
> BC-610 chassis...
>
> Geoff
> WB6NVH
>
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