Topband: suitable wire for top loading wires?-spud gun

[Julius Fazekas]

Here's what I use, and I would recommend it. It's my most borrowed piece of equipment:

http://www.antennalaunchers.com/csv19/index.html

73,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

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--- On Wed, 3/17/10, Mike & Coreen Smith <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> From: Mike & Coreen Smith <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> Subject: Re: Topband: suitable wire for top loading wires?-spud gun
> To: Topband at contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 9:07 PM
> I'd love to see plans for that Spud
> Gun, Gary (or anyone)/.....I've been 
> using a fishing rod for years but it's not entirely
> accurate and I've been 
> "caught up" in the tops of trees more than once.  I
> usually try to use some 
> rocks taped to the end of my monofilament in case I have to
> yank and break 
> it free.......then the rock drops to the ground.  A
> spud gun sounds like the 
> bees-knees.
> (and I could harmlessly target practice on the hoards of
> deer in the back 
> field when not working on antennas! ;-) J/K )
> Mike ve9aa
> .
> ,,,SNIP...
> I forget which month that Spud Gun was explained in QST, it
> was 1-2
> years ago. I made one just like in the magazine but then I
> fiddled
> with the valve and made it a bit better. I then ordered a
> larger
> valve from Ebay. Either would work but I wanted a heavy
> duty version
> that would be sure to do anything I would ever ask of it.
> Minus the
> monofilament, that sucker would take down a deer at
> 300'...
> 
> 73,
> Gary
> KA1J
> 
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