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Subject: TopBand: Re: [YCCC] FW: Beverage kit
From: nx1g@top.monad.net (Craig Clark)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:07:10 -0500
At 05:00 PM 10/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Just for the heck of it!
>A flashback to 1995:
> ----------
>From: Randy Thompson
>To: CQ-Contest Reflector
>Subject: Beverage kit
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------  
> --
>I have been amused by all the discussion regarding whether Beverages
>should be made of copper or aluminum or steel wire.  Copper seems to be
>the wire of choice and doesn't cost that much anyway.

Flashing back myself........


Ah Randy, you preach the gospel of truth! I have been saying basically the
same for years...there "aint" no reason to make it anymore difficult than it
need to be! 

Only suggestion is to make sure the resistors are carbon, not wire wound and
"pot" them with electrician's putty to wx proof them.  Good job!

73 Craig, soon to be.....


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