When I was a kid I remember tuning my antenna with one of those little neon
bulbs soldered to a couple of little loops of wire. One guy would be at the
transmitter, the other guy up on a ladder with the bulb. When the bulb was
brightest your antenna was tuned....or something like that...

Zeno

Marty wrote:

"Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr." wrote in message
...
Hi Zeno

Some will say it don't affect it all, others will say it will affect
it a little bit and other will say it affects it alot.

I had several little 1/16th watt neon lights laying around doing
nothing. I would toy with them, lining them on dipoles to find the
highest area of RF on the dipoles, once found, I would solder these
little rascals to the dipole so they wouldn't move in the wind.

Besides looking cute, they offered a little bit of help too.
When it was raining, they wouldn't lite at all on a couple of
antennas, and on others were very dim.
This alone tells me that there is some affect of rain on the antennas.

But one question has always perplexed me to no end.
Why will the light light up if placed on the end of my 10 meter mobile
antenna, but not on the end of 10 meter ground plane. It lights up
just fine about 19 inches below the top on the ground plane and about
22 inches below the top on a vertical with an underground radial bed.

TTUL
Gary

One question perplexes me - are you so bored that you can't think of
anything better to do other than solder neon lights to your antenna??? My
God, someone please shoot me if I ever get to that stage!!! ;-)