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Title: Cookie cutters and $4, your thoughts... Post by: VE3GZB on May 25, 2011, 02:40:36 PM I like this guy's reasoning.
http://www.qsl.net/wb1gfh/antenna.html Title: Re: Cookie cutters and $4, your thoughts... Post by: Ralph W3GL on May 25, 2011, 02:58:35 PM Yep, good stuff... Joe is a member here on this forum... Title: Re: Cookie cutters and $4, your thoughts... Post by: K3ZS on May 25, 2011, 03:51:50 PM Reminds me of my first antenna: a roof mounted 40M dipole, a sawed off broomstick was the mast, the feedline was zip cord. It probably cost no
more than a couple of dollars for the parts. I did not know any better so the feedline was fed unbalanced, one side to ground the other to the output of the transmitter. I contacted just about every novice station I could hear. Title: Re: Cookie cutters and $4, your thoughts... Post by: KC4ALF on May 26, 2011, 08:21:10 PM My main station antenna is nothing more than Army Surplus Field telephone wire, bought by the 1/2 mile spool years ago at Aberdeen for $15.00! And insulators are scrap 1/2" plexiglass and salvaged telegraph insulators.
Title: Re: Cookie cutters and $4, your thoughts... Post by: WD8BIL on May 27, 2011, 02:19:50 PM This says it all. Talk about giving up an AMEN!!! AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
From the article: Quote The plain and simple truth is that wire antennas for the HF bands were intended to be hand-made and not store-bought. |