[Lowfer] 166r5 antenna

[Rye Gewalt]

How well I know the daughters with car problems.  Not only do I get stuck
getting them back home, but usually wind up paying for the repairs.  They refer
to it as the "Bank of Dad".

Rye

Ralph Hartwell wrote:

> Fellow Wire Jockeys,
>
> It was not a good day in South Louisiana to work on antennas.  It was 75
> degrees, with gentle breezes, with a few puffy cumulus clouds in the
> sky.  Nevertheless, I persevered in spite of the miserable weather, and
> managed to install most of my 166.5 antenna.
>
> It is a single wire running up the side of my tower and spaced 2 meters
> away from the tower.  A top loading wire is strung between the tower and
> the mast on my house roof.  It's not the best, but I'll see how it
> works.  The next step is to check the tuning.  I'll post some pix as
> soon as I get the time to edit them.  I could not get to the pix
> tonight, since earlier this evening my daughter called, stranded, with
> two blown out tires and it was Dad to the rescue time.
>
> 73,
>
> Ralph   W5JGV / WC2XSR / 13
>
> http://home.att.net/~shmrg
>
> http://home.att.net/~ralph.hartwell
>
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