[Hallicrafters] Green Insulators

[jeff]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 01:54 -0500, Horace W. Hall wrote:
> 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>.

This worked in the old days but it won't work today.  The bottles are
not equal.  First of all, it's hard to find bottles.  Second, Coke went
to hell when they replaced the all-natural refined white sugar with
all-natural high fructose corn syrup.  

In addition to killing the taste, it also ruins the bottle's insulating
properties.  Trust me.   So if you're going to proceed, make sure you
find the VINTAGE Coke bottles only.  NOTE: the repro bottles don't work.



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