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Subject: [TowerTalk] Bazooka antennas
From: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:14:06 -0700
Barry Kutner wrote:
> 
> On 30 Apr 98, W9SN <nw9g@netusa1.net> wrote:
> 
> > Back about 15 years ago there was a photocopy paper floating around in
> > the ham community that showed diagrams for making bazookas for each
> > band using coax for the entire antenna.
> 
> How do you model bubble gum as a conductor?
> --
> Barry Kutner, W2UP  


Hey Barry, they work OK.  You go out and spend a couple of hundred
dollars for real good grade coax, cut them exactly right, and they work
just as good as a regular dipole :-)
Tom W7WHY

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