A fond recollection?My very first antenna was a Hustler 5BTV. Worked over
240 countries on that antenna during high school. Not easy, but built
character and operating skill :)
73, Scott W3TX
On 4/8/14 8:43 PM, "Tom Osborne" <w7why@frontier.com> wrote:
>On 4/8/2014 4:25 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
>> I just read the Joel Hallas, W1ZR article - "The 43 foot vertical
>>monopole
>> - What's the magic?". It was very interesting! The coax losses are
>>worse
>> than I imagined, up to 8dB though 100 feet of RG-213, and as my model
>> showed the radiation is very high above 20m. Certainly a relay to
>> electrically shorten the antenna would help 15m and 10m.
>>
>> John KK9A
>
>
>I always wondered why someone would pay $400- $500 for a '43 foot
>vertical' when you can hang about $1.50 worth of wire in a tree and do
>the same thing.
>
>We had one of those for FD and it was not a very good antenna. 73
>Tom W7WHY
>
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