[Towertalk] I need help

[Pete Smith]

At 10:05 AM 11/22/02 -0400, Carl Smidt wrote:
>There are more ways than one to skin a cat. As a teenager I also had 
>problems with neighbours, so I hooked my Viking II up to the slat springs 
>(commonly used in those days) under my mattress and f'ired away'. Made all 
>kinds of contacts, but today you would also need a good antenna tuner for 
>the job  :>).  Good luck Carlos and hang in there!


Another alternative is a small mobile antenna.  In the early 1970s I had a 
Hustler mobile whip bracketed to the metal balcony rail of a garden 
apartment, tilted out away from the building at roughly 45 degrees.  The 
antenna was 10 feet from a chain-link fence and about even with the average 
local ground level.  Worked fine -- DXCC plus in 2 years on 20m with a 
HW-32A.  All the same, I hope Carlos can figure out another way to get his 
cables down.


73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower