[Amps] HIGHWAY LOUIE

[Roger]

On 11/22/2011 12:16 PM, TexasRF at aol.com wrote:
> Hi All, do you think the 40ft moile antenna might have been mounted on 
> one end of the vehicle and pulled diagonally across to the other end 
> and cinched down forming a near half circle?
> Done that way, the required clearance would be on the order of 15 feet 
> or so. That would clear most obstacles.
> I ran a 15 ft mobile whip for a while back in the late 60's and that 
> was ok nearly everywhere except under the canopy of a filling station 
> with fluorescent lighting. Ask me how I know!

Those tubes are "out in the open too" IE, no covers<:-))  I use the same 
set up in my shop where I have 22 8' tubes mounted in 2 tube fixtures.  
Forgot and left them on last night. My wife (N8JBW) says it's coming out 
of my allowance. <:-))

73

Roger (K8RI)

> 73,
> Gerald K5GW
> In a message dated 11/22/2011 11:05:44 A.M. Central Standard Time, 
> sub1 at rogerhalstead.com writes:
>
>     On 11/22/2011 9:11 AM, k7fm wrote:
>     > Just ran into an article in the May 1952 issue of CQ.  W6RL
>     installed a
>     > teletype model 12 into his 1952 Chevy Carryall.  A seperate
>     Kohler "light
>     > plant" was also installed in the back.  BC-348 receiver and 813
>     transmitter
>     > running 300 watts was the transmitter.
>     >
>     > The 80 meter whip is 40 feet.  The article says he did operate
>     while in
>     > motion.  (maybe less overpasses in those days).
>     52? Overpasses?   There was a whole lot less of everything back
>     then. I
>     don't think they'd even started on the Interstate Highway system
>     yet so
>     there were many areas of highways in the middle of the country and
>     mountainous states where he could have used that antenna. "I'd guess"
>     though that his use of that antenna mobile was actually quite limited.
>
>       There would have been few over passes and virtually none of the
>     type
>     we see on the expressways.  BUT he'd have wanted to travel them
>     first as
>     every once in a while you'd find overhead power lines. Sometimes they
>     were pretty low and difficult to spot till you were right up to them.
>     We also had few of the huge high tension transmission lines you see
>     today.  Cars had not reached the gargantuan size of the 60's and 70's
>     either. Course anything with 30 to 50 thousand miles was
>     considered worn
>     our.
>
>     BTW a good B&W Television with a little screen cost as much as
>     today's
>     50 or 60" HDTV...or more in some instances for a not so great picture
>     quality.  The new huge CRTs gad reached a whole, monstrous 21". <:-))
>     They had a horizontal sweep oscillator you could sometimes hear for a
>     half mile or more and it might have harmonics up to 40 meters.
>
>     73
>
>     Roger (K8RI)
>
>     >
>     > 73,  Colin  K7FM
>     >
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