[SOC] Truly Amazing Radio!

JMcAulay [email protected]
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:53:24 -0700


At 05:22 PM 04/16/2002 -0500, Dan W. Dooley  WB5TKA wrote:

>Some 4 land station just posted on the DX spot that he worked a ZD9 station
>on 20 meters with, exact quote: "worked .5 watts, 6 inch dipole."
>
>I'm obviously using the wrong antenna.
>
>He was talking about an antenna, wasn't he?


Well, Dan, it's hard to say just what he had in mind.  Maybe it was six
inches spread at the feedpoint, or maybe six inches below the mean level of
the ionosphere, or six inches from the receiving station, or six inches up....

73
John WA6QPL  SOC 263