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October 4th 04, 05:36 PM

(William) wrote in message . com...
(Brian Kelly) wrote in message . com...

Kelly, I never have had an HF radio that came with an antenna.
Perhaps your do. Yet I managed to build my own cubical quad on HF,
dipoles, off-center fed dipoles, and EDZ's for 10 and 6, a hustler
vertical for 40, etc, etc, etc.

But in this particular location, I have very precise requirements and
your one size fits all suggestion just wasn't what I wanted.

You could have come out with this years ago but no, it just wouldn't
have been "you".

Thank
you for your suggestion, but don't force it on me. Reminds me of the
time you told me to bend over. Thanks, but No thanks. Some kind of
weird elmering going on where you're from.

Depends 100% on the elmeree. In your case . . .

. . . George Barnum who lived a block and a half away to
listen for me. His older brother had a radio and TV repair shop so
George sorta understood what I was up to. He heard me *good* when I
fired the thing up on sked.

What was you callsign then?

"CBK".

Or were you bootlegging as you've previously reported?

Cite the post(s) please.

The problem was that I really screwed up by arranging the sked when
every houswife in town was listening to the Don McNeil Breakfast Club
Hour while they were doing their ironing.

Actually, you're biggest screwup was operating w/o a license.

I had no idea what an FCC was, kids do goofy stuff like that and I did
more than my share. But I did get on the air under my own steam with
nothing more than guidance from an article in an old book and with no
help from anybody. A Riley of those days woulda enjoyed it then he
woulda "explained a few things". But Mom got there before he did and
she didn't "explain" NOTHIN' . . .