On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:38:09 -0700, Wes Stewart
wrote:

On 3 Mar 2005 08:50:16 -0800, wrote:


Joe S. wrote:
In 1996, I disassembled my antenna farm that graced the 3-acre plot
where we
lived in Manassas, VA:
-- 40- and 50-foot Rohn towers
-- two 135-foot dipoles each center-fed with ladder line
-- TH7
-- assorted VHF and UHF beams
-- 40-mtr inverted Vee

Bundled it all up and moved from Virginia to Tennessee where I moved
into a
restricted subdivision. The antenna farm stayed bundled up in the
crawl
space.

In 2003, sold the house and moved into an apartment at which point I
sold
the antenna farm for a fraction of what I paid for it.

Now, in 2005, living in an apartment on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
and
trying to scrape together the money to build a house on a 100 x
100-foot lot
where maybe I can put up a short dipole but will not be able to have
a
tower.

So -- what's the point? As I sit here and read the debates about
this wire,
that vertical, some other yagi, yes/no on the Carolina Windom, advice
on an
antenna for a 10-acre plot -- I can't help but think: If you have an
antenna, thank the gods because any antenna radiates better than no
antenna.

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Joe S.

You can always operate from the car...Seriously...If I had no shack,
antennas, etc, I would still have a decent mobile rig. You can sit
in it, or just park it in the driveway, and run a coax to it, from
house, garage, etc...I've done the "remote mobile antenna" thing
many times when camping...I'll sit the rig on a picnic table, and
run coax to the car antenna. Works better than you might think.
The higher bands, very good. MK

Sure. My Elmer and neighbor had an acre and lots of bux but he still
liked his "mobile" rig.

http://www.qsl.net/n7ws/w7uvr.jpg

This was "state-of-the-art" in 1958.

Full tilt with a high level modulated 4-1000A. Thirty foot "tower"
and 2 el. beam for high bands and remotely tuned verticals for lower
bands.


I'll bet he used the air conditioner in the winter time in that car

and I thought I was crazy with my mobile setup. Years ago I had two
hustler MO mounts each with the three way spider for 80-10 meters. I
had two 2- meter antennas and two 70 cm antennas on the car in
addition to the am/fm broadcast antenna on the car. It was nick-named
'The Porcupine'. Going to Charleston one day I had a console of
radios surrounding me. The IC-730, Kenwood TS-440SAT, a dual-band 2
meter/70 cm radio and one each of two meters and 70 cm rigs. I
haven't established my antennas yet on my current car, but the IC-706
MKII replaces most of the above. I'll be looking for a good dual band
for the car for FM to go with the 706. Then I can operate HF while
listening to V/UHF and visa versa.


--
73 for now
Buck
N4PGW