[Qcwa] Pretty cool "old" guy

[Jeffrey D Angus]

jay@integraonline.com wrote:

>Yep, I hate to admit how tickled I was to talk feedline, antenna gain, Matching 
>devices.  I told him about the Hairpin match I made for my 3 element Yagi using old 
>House Wire (Heavy Copper) and he talked about putting some old RG59 to use.  
>What current crop of Hams would even consider using 75 ohm coax or building a 
>Yagi out of PVC and some old pipes?  Sure the SWR was a notch higher using 59 
>but who cares!   There are still people homebrewing!  Hoo Hoo!!!
>
Yuppers, that's it Jay.
I got the same response on the local TRW repeater when I pointed out
I was running a 42 year old 200 pound tube radio.
Got a lot of people out of the wood work on that one.

Heh, even more than I got when I used VOX on a repeater in traffic
for the first and last time. (Nothing like hearing a squelch tail after a
particularly "pointed" remark about someone's driving teechnique. ;-)

Jeff
And for Gene
WA6FWI, Extra Class, QCWA Life Member.


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