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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