I'll bet it will smell funny.
----- Original Message -----
From: "K4SAV" <RadioIR@charter.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] New Design?
> AD5VJ wrote:
> Now I am not sure if it's the rotted tomatoes, the goat that I pinned in
> the garden to eat it out after tomato season was over, the "T-Bar", The
> chicken wire or the 10" roll of 360' of telephone wire. ....
>
>
> I'm sure it has something to do with the rotten tomatoes and goat poop.
> Wonder what the kit for this antenna will look like.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> AD5VJ Bob wrote:
>
> >I live in the country and don't have the money right now
> >for *real* towers and antennas so I have to make due and
> >make my own and get them as high as possible since I like
> >low band dxing.
> >
> >Well I am not sure exactly what to call it but I think I
> >have run across a revolutionary new antenna design by
> >accident.
> >
> >It meets all the requirements for limited space,
> >contesting, dxing and low cost budgeting all in one
> >antenna.
> >
> >I will explain the construction as thoroughly as my
> >limited engineering vocabulary will allow.
> >
> >I was in the middle of redesigning my wire antennas and so
> >I took them all down in hopes of putting them back up on
> >my new home made 60 foot mast
> >(another story all it's own).
> >
> >Since I live in the country, I sloppily rolled all the
> >wire up into about a 10" bundle and hung it over the
> >chicken wire fence I erected for my wife's tomato garden,
> >just over one of the 4 foot metal "T-Bars" that makes up
> >the 3' gate I made for the garden along with the rest of
> >the garden fence.
> >
> >It sits there hanging over the "T-Bar" even as I write
> >this, and I am copying Tony and the boys in Scotland on 80
> >meters clearer than I have ever heard them before when all
> >360' of telephone wire was strung out on 8 20' masts
> >around half the property and I had to put my head phones
> >on to hear them.
> >
> >Now I am not sure if it's the rotted tomatoes, the goat
> >that I pinned in the garden to eat it out after tomato
> >season was over, the "T-Bar", The chicken wire or the 10"
> >roll of 360' of telephone wire.
> >
> >I have it going directly to my MFJ tuner as a single wire
> >antenna.
> >
> >I have not transmitted on it or moved the tuner settings
> >as I am afraid of messing it up before I can take pictures
> >and patent it.
> >
> >I thought about calling it "The Texas T-Bar DX Tornado".
> >Any ideas would be appreciated on this BTW.
> >
> >All I know is - I have Tony and the boys in Scotland in
> >here for a change at 10 over nine on the S-meter.
> >
> >I have tuned around 40 a little also and there are
> >stations in EU coming in on CW at S5 there also.
> >
> >Now what is *really* going to bother me is tomorrow after
> >I struggle to push the 60' home made mast up so I can tie
> >it off with bailing wire to my fence post after I put the
> >new antennas (all designed according to theoretically
> >acceptable designs) on the 60' mast and have to put on the
> >headset again.
> >
> >Although I guess I could use it for a receive antenna.
> >
> >In our hobby there is NEVER a dull moment.
> >
> >
> > 73 fer nw,
> >Bob AD5VJ
> >
> >10X# 37210, FP#-1141, SMIRK#-5177
> >http://www.n5iet.com/
> >Code may be taking a back seat for now,
> >but the pioneering spirit that put the code
> >there in the first place is out front of it all.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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