[QCWA] Gutter clip brings back memories!

[Croft B Taylor]

I too have seen these clips at truck stops here in Ontario.  Used to own
one myself when I had a 10 metre rig in the car circa 1950!

73,  Croft Taylor, VE3CT
Former QCWA President
e-mail <ve3ct at rac.ca>

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:30:52 -0500 <W5FQA at ARRL.NET> writes:
> When I was about 17, (in 1957), I had a 1957 chevy with a 75M rig 
> built from
> a command set and a Morrow converter, in it. (2 dynamoters under the 
> hood
> with the outputs connected in series, also my first 12 volt 
> vehicle.) Had
> the usual bug catcher style antenna with a gutter clip on the rain 
> gutter.
> The ball had come off the whip, and I bent a hook in the end so it 
> would
> stay in the gutter clip. Tried to face it to the rear to keep from 
> snagging
> things.
> 
> One day my mother used the car, the hook in the whip was facing 
> forward, and
> she entered the Joske's parking lot in downtown San Antonio, TX. 
> Before they
> could get her stopped, she had pulled down most of the overhead 
> strings of
> lights in the parking lot. They used two wires with sockets every 
> 10-15 feet
> at about 10 or 12 feet off the ground for night lighting. Brings 
> back fond
> memories of simpler days, before the underground parking garages, 
> and large
> mall parking lots.
> 
> 73's,
> Ernest Reich, W5FQA 
> 
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