[TVARC] Halloween Antenna?

[Robert Averitt]

We were at the new BJ’s store in Lady Lake yesterday and I spotted the
following 15 foot blow-up Halloween ghost figure on one of the Halloween
display shelves across from the cash registers.

I began thinking hmmmmm… could this be ‘repurposed’ to hold a dual-band
Halloween Stealth Antenna?

·        Run a #16 wire about 11 ft. long vertically up the back with tape,
install a copper ground rod and feed with a RG8X coax for use as a stealth
vertical 15-meter antenna and …............

·        Run a #16 wire dipole about 113-inch across the arms and
center-feed with RG58 coax for a 6-meter dipole



Problems ….

·        Could only be used in October

·        Could NOT get the $100+ approval from my ‘domestic management’.
She thought it would be ‘tacky’ for some odd reason!



Oh well, another Rube Goldberg stealth antenna bites the dust!



73, Bob

WA3EWK


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