Tom Osborne <w7why@harborside.com> wrote:
>Boy, that's the truth. I had a TH-3jr up about 15 years ago,
>right next to the fireplace chimney. After one winter, the
>antenna became inoperative. I took it down, and it was covered
>with soot, even inside the coils. It ruined the antenna. So
>don't put an antenna on or near a chimney with smoke coming out
>of it.
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Not necessarily. I've had a Cushcraft R7 strapped to an operating chimney
for seven years and there has been no change in performance.
It started out as being a dummy load on a lollipop and hasn't changed.
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