Good afternoon y'all.
I hope you are not confuswing this antenna that the girls in Phil Sptoony's
All Gitl Orcastra devoleped back in the Thirtys. Some of the girls were
hams so they made an antenna that would tune from 80 thru the old 5 meter
band.
It was the first true broad band antenna.
73 yall
N4AN
----- Original Message -----
From: "GilBaronW0MN" <gbaron@charter.net>
To: <sschultz@megsinet.net>; "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Cc: "WL Reflector" <Writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] RE: [RTTY] April Fool...
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> > [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Scott Schultz
> > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:34 PM
> > To: RTTY Reflector
> > Cc: WL Reflector
> > Subject: [WriteLog] RE: [RTTY] April Fool...
> >
> >
> > One other April Fools joke was in QST a few years ago...
> >
> > I don't remember the specificds, but a company had just designed
> > and built a
> > new HF "dream" antenna. Small, lightweight, multiband, broadbanded and
> > inexpesnive; in other words, everything a ham could want. They
> > were getting
> > pretty good signal reports in ordinary rag chews, but the real
> > test would be
> > how it performed in a contest. They proclaimed their new antenna design
a
> > rousing success because everyone in the contest gave them a 599 report!
> >
>
> THIS IS NO JOKE, if you operate any contest or any DX pileup then it is
> obviously a true story. Not only that, EVERY participant in EVERY contest
> has this antenna.
>
> > 73,
> > de Scott N0IU
> >
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