[MRCA] antenna chat = no more woe

[Christopher Bowne]

Curious as to how you read it?  I didn't see it come back to me on the MRCA reflector as of 10:20PM tonight, and then saw that I somehow only sent it to Al Klase, and not to the list.  I just forwarded it to the list a minute or two ago !  Did Al forward it to you on another list or earlier today directly?

Re improvisation, I had to scramble to check into the OMRN AM net a few weeks ago.   My wife had put a bag containing a folding camp chair in the back of the Tacoma a few days earlier, and then when she got home, took what she thought were TWO chair bags out of the truck.  I use a very similar bag to the one she put in to hold my field antenna kit.  When I went to put up my 75 meter dipole just before the net, no antennas!  I went down to the basement of our cottage where we were that morning, came across a small jumbled up rats nest of actually nice 7 strand  No. 20 copper wire, that probably in a former life was an outdoor "aerial" for a TRF BC set.  Untangled it (which took most of the time needed), used a small piece of ceder shingle for an end insulator, and made up a 1/4 wave wire that I got up  about 20  feet on the far end and attached it to the Tacoma mobile antenna ball mount.  Hit a near perfect SWR match on the first try, and made
 it into the net just a little late.


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 From: "crp.wd8asmallxb at comcast.net" <crp.wd8axb at comcast.net>
To: aj1g at sbcglobal.net 
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 12:18 PM
Subject: antenna chat = no more woe
 


Mr. Bowne,
 
I appreciated reading the post about antennas. Well said and common sense.
Funky military wire antennas are just simple antennas with gizmos.
 
Making your own antennas, IMO, makes you more the special forces field radio operator because you improvised, adapted, and overcame...... you didn't deploy an antenna off of a commercial shelf.
 
thanks again,
Charlie WD8AXB
Vicksburg, MI
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