[Lowfer] Fenceline longwire

[Ed Phillips]

Hello J. B. and all:

 My personal opinion only: When we loose the
pioneering / experimenting spirit of the Amateur
hobby, we can easily become as stale as the riceboxes
we operate. pre-programmed with the idea that this is
the best, and we can't do any better. As one licensed
operator ( don't really want to call him a ham
)running a shack full of commercial equipment and all
commercial antennas told me: " you can't build a
better antenna than what you can buy; why don't you
quit wasting your time, spend the money, and buy you a
good antenna." I ended up building a 24 element 2
meter longboom that with 10 watts output was running
20 over 9 signals 120+ miles down the road, all for a
grand total of $ 40.00. He didn't like to talk to me
aftwards. To those with the pioneering spirit: Keep up
the good work.
73, all: and thanks for the moment on the soapbox.
Andy Bell - KU4XR"

	An excellent point.  Look at QST now compared to what it was 20 years ago or more.  That general attitude has been around for a very long time however.  Back in 1950 I heard a local DX whiz actually ask another ham to come by and change the dial light in his receiver because he didn't have a screwdriver to remove the case!!!!!!!!!!!

Ed