[TVARC] olde tyme

[John Fleming]

John,
I remember the beer can antenna, but it is hard to solder aluminum! :-{
73,
John

Fat fingered from my iPad

> On Nov 28, 2017, at 3:03 PM, John Ellis <john.np2b at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just worked Earle on FT-8!   Hi Earle! 
> 
> I remember as a kid - I thought a Beverage antenna 
> was a beer can vertical! Anybody remember the beer can vertical?   
> 
> A ham would throw a party and furnish the beer. You could have a free beer under the condition that when you finished the beer, you had to solder your can on top of the last guy's can. And up she went ...   That's when beer cans were made out of steel.  
> 
> There was a lot of beer consumed at the beginning - as the afternoon progressed, things got a bit slower ... And then they started putting beer into aluminum cans. Some people just know how to ruin perfectly good construction projects ...    
> 
> showing my age,   
> John, NP2B   
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