[Hallicrafters] Green Insulators

[Horace W. Hall]

>
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.
>

1962? My Dad (IIRC as K4FEU at the time) was using a coke bottle as a base
insulator for a 40M vertical around 1955-1959. It was a heavy-duty
telescoping antenna of some kind (gov't surplus probably) and he had a few
turns of copper tubing between it & ground and tapped the turns for a coax
feed. I guess good ideas have a way of recurring <G>.
--Wayne
  WB4OGM