[TowerTalk] RE : Another stub question

[Ian White G/GM3SEK]

David O Hachadorian wrote:
>
>On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:25:46 +0100 "hermans" <on4kj at skynet.be> writes:
>> Tom,
>>
>> I remember a dutch station who winded them up and putted them all
>> in
>> separate tin cans.
>
>I remember that too.
>
>They used 1 gallon (or metric equiv.) paint cans (available for cheap at
>hardware stores) and mounted two SO-239's side by side on the lid, with a
>short wire jumper between the two center pins. The stub attached to the
>jumper and ground, and fit inside the can. I think they found room for a
>.25 wavelength 80m RG-213 stub inside the can. Maybe it was only 40m. I
>can't remember for sure, but I remember being surprised as to how long it
>was, so it was probably 80.
>
>The cans could be daisy-chained, or multiple short stubs could be in one
>can. It was a neat packaging solution.
>

For an untidy packaging solution, some years ago a G station produced a 
large cardboard box with four coax leads, labeled "10m Station", "15m 
Station", "20m Station" and "Connect Tribander Here". It was quite an 
elaborate setup of branches, stubs and even stubs-on-stubs; but when it 
was all built and working, he just bundled it into the box.

(Why he designed such a combiner is quite another question - mostly to 
see if it could be done, I think. It wouldn't be very practical to have 
three stations forced to share the same beam direction.)


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73 from Ian G/GM3SEK