[CQ-Contest] [YCCC] mystery tool and damaged 40m antennas

[Les Kalmus]

Hmmm. I seem to remember it was pretty much standard not to have a 
"Church Key" in one's ammo pouch in the NY National Guard and it was not 
used extensively in the field at Camp Drum either. Must have been 
similar training.

Les W2LK


w1eqo at shaysnet.com wrote:
> A "Church Key" is a device used by the troopies of Mass National Guard in
> 1962 to open Schlitz and Schaffer cans. Pull-tops were not yet invented.
>
> Beer was verbotten to have. Each truck on the trip to Camp Drum, NY did not
> have a trash can that sweated moisture. If it did, there were no beer cans
> and ice inside.
>
> Out in the woods, beer was not available, and did not cost 25 cents / can,
> and did not arrive in a jeep trailer, which also did not sweat. One time,
> the batallon commander never asked me "Ussailis, you got an extra cold one
> there?"
>
> No one had a "Church Key" in their ammo pouch.
>
>
> Jim, W1EQO
>
>
> Original Message:
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> From: K1TTT K1TTT at ARRL.NET
> Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:04:09 +0000
> To: towertalk at contesting.com, CQ-Contest at Contesting.COM, yccc at yccc.org,
> RLX at yahoogroups.com, nobarc at nobarc.org
> Subject: RE: mystery tool and damaged 40m antennas
>
>
> Well, I had a nice draft reply with all the wrong answers and the right
> ones, but outlook ate it on me over night.  So instead of that here is the
> short answer...
>
> 1. Paint can and bottle opener is correct.  These were given away for years
> by various paint stores.  Some called it a 'church key' but I believe that
> is more properly applied to a combination flat top can (with no pull top)
> and bottle opener, see the wikipedia article referenced by one respondent.
>
> 2. On the 40m4lldd the butt end of each element has a 24" 1.375" tube inside
> the swaged 5' 1.5" main element tube to add strength.  This combination is
> held to a short rod that is held in the boom-element clamp by a 1/4" bolt.
> Due to slight flattening of the tubing and distortion of the hole the inner
> piece on most of the elements was stuck pretty well inside, and they were
> either flush or slightly inside the outer piece.  That tool was perfectly
> made to grab the inside of that 1/4" hole in the inner tube and pull it out
> just far enough to get it started.  It could also then be inserted through
> the hole to finish pulling stubborn ones out.
>
>
> David Robbins K1TTT
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