[TowerTalk] PL258s and Double Males are OK!

Bill Turner w7ti@jps.net
Mon, 25 Sep 2000 21:04:29 -0700


On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:44:00 -0400, David J. Windisch wrote:

>After we have spent the family fortune on site analysis, ground conductivity
>out to 10 miles (25.4km, I think), terrain analysis, location, location,
>location, property surveys, tower permit fees, towers, anti-climb panels,
>concrete, phillystran guys, steel guys cuz the phillystran got roughed up,
>riggers, call-backs, yearly tree trimming, antennas, ground systems, antenna
>analyzers, rotators, feedlines, control lines, rigs, *amplifiers*,
>comfortable shack furniture, filters, keyers, logging systems, DX bulletins,
>attorneys' fees for tower-permit battles, 'net access, rewiring, 2M
>DX-squawkboxes, speech therapy for faster talking in fone contests, a
>refrigerator for adult beverages, backup power, a log cabin lit by candles
>to house this mess, and then we read somewhere that some iconoclast VE1
>connects his hardline pieces together with ... WHAT???? cable clamps???? and
>hose clamps???? ...
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Well, thank goodness we are able to turn a profit on all this, or
nobody would do it, would they?  :-)

73, Bill W7TI


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