[TVARC] olde tyme

[Cal Fuhrman]

Mine was self-resonant between Piel’s and Black Label.  Ballantine would occasionally create high SWR on 10 meters.  My tuning elements were Schaeffer’s and Knickerbocker.  But then, I was from the mid-Atlantic area.  Others may have used cans according to their locale.

De
Cal – WA3CTZ

From: John Fleming
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 2:09 PM
To: John Ellis
Cc: villages reflector
Subject: Re: [TVARC] olde tyme

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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