At 10:05 AM 11/22/02 -0400, Carl Smidt wrote:
>There are more ways than one to skin a cat. As a teenager I also had
>problems with neighbours, so I hooked my Viking II up to the slat springs
>(commonly used in those days) under my mattress and f'ired away'. Made all
>kinds of contacts, but today you would also need a good antenna tuner for
>the job :>). Good luck Carlos and hang in there!
Another alternative is a small mobile antenna. In the early 1970s I had a
Hustler mobile whip bracketed to the metal balcony rail of a garden
apartment, tilted out away from the building at roughly 45 degrees. The
antenna was 10 feet from a chain-link fence and about even with the average
local ground level. Worked fine -- DXCC plus in 2 years on 20m with a
HW-32A. All the same, I hope Carlos can figure out another way to get his
cables down.
73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower
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