Interesting story. Kinda like my early days.
My first novice antenna back in '54 was a 40 meter dipole about 15 feet high
fed with telephone twisted pair. Bent 1 wire of the twisted pair and stuck
it into the coax jack on the transmitter. Taped the other leg to the
outside of the coax jack with black tape.
I didn't know it wasn't supposed to work, so I just got on the air and made
contacts with my Heathkit AT-1 transmitter :-) 73
Tom W7WHY
Back when I first got on the air from my home QTH (we had a radio club at my
junior high which I used for about a year before getting my own station), I
had a Hy-Gain 14AVQ 40-10 meter vertical which I ground mounted. Didn't use
any radials, didn't know I really needed them. Remember, I was a new novice
and the internet wasn't around then. I just drove a ground rod into the
ground and attached part of the vertical to that. Got DXCC plus using that
antenna. I am convinced that it worked pretty well because I didn't know it
wasn't supposed to work with that setup. Had lots of fun with a couple of
end fed random wires after the vertical as well.
73 John AF5CC
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