[Hallicrafters] Green Insulators

[nv4t at bellsouth.net]

Here in Dixie a RC bottle is a good "field expedient"
                                                                                              NV4T
> 
> From: "Horace W. Hall" <hwhall at compuserve.com>
> Date: 2006/03/09 Thu AM 01:54:39 EST
> To: Hallicrafter List <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Green Insulators
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> >
> 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   
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