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GEORGE/W2AMR
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« on: August 14, 2005, 09:05:06 AM »
Check out the 1919 mobile station

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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2005, 09:32:58 AM »
Yeiks.........looks like the TimTrons new dog-log gone horizontal......
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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2005, 10:45:34 AM »
If the bands are dead, you can always use it to hang out your laundry to dry.
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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2005, 11:38:59 AM »
Wonder what kind of wind noise one would have, going down the road with that...  Shocked
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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2005, 01:10:31 PM »
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Wonder what kind of wind noise one would have, going down the road with that...

Wonder what band it's for. 5 meters? The antenna looks about 12 feet long.
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« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2005, 04:43:27 PM »
Bell Labs - The first version of a mobile radio telephone being used in 1924.

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« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2005, 05:11:59 PM »
Quote from: Tom WA3KLR on August 14, 2005, 04:43:27 PM
Bell Labs - The first version of a mobile radio telephone being used in 1924.

70 years later, not much had changed....
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GEORGE/W2AMR
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2005, 05:41:02 PM »
Quote from: Bacon, WA3WDR on August 14, 2005, 10:45:34 AM
If the bands are dead, you can always use it to hang out your laundry to dry.
According to my calculations the resonate frequency drops by 25 khz for every 2 lbs of wet laundry hung on it.  Grin
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« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2005, 08:20:35 PM »
Quote from: GEORGE/W2AMR on August 14, 2005, 09:05:06 AM
Check out the 1919 mobile station

Looks more like Verizon and Con Ed on wheels.
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« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2005, 10:45:02 PM »
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According to my calculations, the resonant frequency drops by 25 khz for every 2 lbs of wet laundry hung on it.  Grin

Ha ha ha - so, you'd do the laundry, then work the DX window for a few hours!
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