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June 2nd 04, 03:21 PM

(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
In article ,
(William) writes:

I actually have an "amateur" version of the whip-tilt adapter. It
uses 3/8x24 threads rather than military fittings. It runs a hamstick
or 102" whip in the normal vertical position, and then has an angle
off of vertical (probably 15 or 20deg) for NVIS use. It was given to
me by a long-time colleague of the inventor.

I suppose now I'll be commanded to provide names and dates, patent
numbers, and a portfolio of 8x10 glossies with circles and arrows.
But I won't.

Don't forget the QSL cards to "prove" you used a tilted whip
to work somebody...AND the signature of your authorizing
officer plus the appropriate directive/regulation! :-)

After all, "Sorry Hans, MARS IS Amateur Radio." Hi, hi!

Don Rumsfeld and company might take some issue with that,
but then someone here "knows" all about MARS.

Donnie better start kissing the former Marine's butt before Steve
decides to pull all of -his- Amateurs out of MARS.

Maybe he/she went there... :-)

"QRM Interplanetary" is the title of a short story by George O.
Smith, appeared in Astounding Science Fiction of the late
1940s. It was part of the "Venus Equilateral" series, had very
little to do with Mars. :-)

LHA / WMD

"Sorry Hans, MARS IS Amateur Radio!!!" Hi hi