[SOC] Found at last !

[Charles Harpole]

Found at last.... the Wolff Houng of SOC..... now we are a real CLUB and have our own club to annoint members with.



Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com 

 

 




 
> From: thom2 at att.net
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:27:26 +0000
> Subject: [SOC] Found in the shack ---what is it??
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm sure this will quakify as a SOC question, so here goes:
> 
> I was looking around the shack (no I definately was NOT cleaning it!) and I came across something I'm sure I bought several years ago but I can't seem to figure out what it is.
> 
> I found two pieces (there may have been more peices but I found 2) of what looks like a loading coil for an antenna and a feedpoint. 
> 
> The loading coil is about 12 to 14 inches long and wound around 2 inch diameter PVC pipe. It has spike coming out of one end that makes me think it probably goes into the ground and is the bottom part of a verticle antenna. This "loading coil" also has a brass rod mounting along the side of the coil which moves up and down making contact at various points on the coil (thereby making it adjustable).
> 
> The other part is about six inches long and made from 1 3/4 inch PVC pipe. this has contacts to apparently connect to the loading coil as well as a BNC connector to go to the tranceiver.
> 
> That's what I found...assuming this is part of a verticle antenna, I didn't find anything that might be used for the radiating portion.
> 
> I always thought this thing was the makings of a PAC12 antenna, but I can't find any directions online that include these parts. I did find PAC12 directions on the NJQRP sight but their antenna seems different than what I have here.
> 
> Anyway, if you have any ideas what these two things are, I'd appreciate hearing from you. I can probably take a picure of them and e-mail it to you, if that would help.
> 
> Thanks for any info you can provide.
> 
> Tom
> WB2QDG
> 
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