[SECC] Station Improvements

[Daniel L. Jeswald]

I am sorry if this makes someone ill, but I have noticed a increasing use of 
CBism's in hamspeak.  I find that offensive.  Terms such as ''stingers" 
should be filtered out before it becomes "normal".

Just my thought

Dan/W4NTI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hoeft, Roger V" <roger.hoeft at intergraph.com>
To: <secc at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 5:08 PM
Subject: FW: [SECC] Station Improvements


>
> John,
>
> Regarding the 80M inverted V,  what I have done is cut the dipole for the
> phone portion, then cut "stinger" lengths of wire to add for the CW 
> portion.
> The stingers have an aligator clip at one end to attach to the ends of the 
> V
> with a couple wraps of tape for good measure.  Works FB for me.
>
> 73,
>
> Roger ...
> KA9EKJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of John Laney
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 3:51 PM
> Cc: secc
> Subject: Re: [SECC] Station Improvements
>
> Afraid all I did was try to repair one leg of my 80 meter inverted vee.
>  After many years of bending back the ends of the dipole to shorten it
> electrically for the phone SS, this past November the last few week broke
> off one end.  I had temporarily tied it without the last few feet and 
> Monday
> afternoon I repaired that end.  Hope that will help in NAQP CW.  It didn't
> seem to make much difference in the loading, but I wasn't scientific about
> making measurements.
>
> 73,
>
> John, K4BAI.
>
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