[Hallicrafters] Green Insulators

[TC Dailey]

You are ALL in violation of something... I just haven't figured out what,
yet.

In 1962, at K6NCG, the club station on the US Naval Schools Command,
Treasure Island (SFRAN), we had several positions, but the S-line, going
into a Johnson Thunderbolt desk-mount was the best.  We regularly used it to
run phone patches for an installation in Antarticia, into the USA.  One
afternoon, we disassembled the Mosley (pronounced moss-lee on a local Denver
swap net - arghh) TA-33 and cleaned all the joints and reassembled it.
Unfortunately for us, we installed the traps HOLE SIDE UP, and that night as
it rained profusely, our beam failed to perform in the proper manner for our
sked with KC4USA (So. Pole).  One of the guys took a 14.5 foot piece of iron
pipe (not exactly a quarter-wavelength radiator for 20m), placed it's end on
a COKE BOTTLE, and fed it with unknown-impedance coax.  We kept the sked,
and it worked splendidly with 20 / S9 reports the whole sked (we ran patches
for 'em).  After the rain stopped, the "vertical", which actually was
leaning on the 'widow's walk' railing on top of the building, quit
functioning.  So there - we obviously used a coke bottle before ANYBODY on
this worn out, dragged until multi-dead, beaten into a pancake, subject was
even brought out.

Now - can we PLEEEEEASE move on?

Tom
I was WNØEAJ back then