Check out the QST for April of 1966. Similar article on painting towers.
Also includes how-to article on using very long coax as a dummy load. Don't
try this at home.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
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From: K7GCO@aol.com <K7GCO@aol.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>; w9ol@billnjudy.com
<w9ol@billnjudy.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Friday, July 27, 2001 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] painting and camoflage
>
>In a message dated 7/27/01 10:44:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>w9ol@billnjudy.com writes:<<
> I purchased a military surplus camouflaged antenna a couple of years ago.
> Placed it in the garage when I got home and haven't been able to find that
> sucker since!
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> I don't jog, it makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Bill H. in Chicagoland
> w9ol@billnjudy.com
> >
>
>I was at the Rocky Mt Arsenal in Denver while in the Army in 53 where they
>made the G Gasses etc. Some "Invisible Paint" was developed. What ever was
>painted with it disappeared. We called the Pentagon about it and while
their
>investigators were on the way there to evaluate it--some damn fool painted
>the can it was in and we haven't been able to find that sucker either.
>
>We developed some "Dehydrated Water" which was great for desert troops. It
>came in 8 and 12 oz packages (powdered Hydrogen and Oxygen) which was
poured
>into a canteen and you just--add water. The water was the water activator.
>These are absolutely true stories--I just made them up. K7GCO
>
>
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