[TowerTalk] Was April Fools, now radiating dummy loads

[Dale Martin]

Back when I was a Novice, (1959) I was fooling around with my 
big-time Globe Chief 90 and a 100w lightbulb as a dummy load.  
I had the old BC342 tuned to my (rare=7175 kc. crystal) QRG.  
After sending my call a couple of times for the fun of it (funny 
how our calls sound so gooooood to ourselves), a ham a half 
mile away began calling me. 

He said I was 579 at his place (he had a folded dipole up 30 feet
and a really neat HQ-110). 

He was skeptical about me transmitting on a lightbulb until I 
convinced him to try it.  About an hour later, he was back on 
QRG calling me weakly, but on a lightbulb.   Stealth Novices!

Now, I wonder who will be the first DXCC with an MFJ-259? 

73,


  
Dale Martin, KG5U
kg5u@hal-pc.org
http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u


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