Dave Smirkenberg wrote:
On Feb 11, 7:44 pm, brian whatcott wrote:
A fellow I work with showed me his new antenna buy for his handy-talky.
A slim Jim. The punch line is low angle radiation boosting apparent
gain. I bought one too. Under $30 with feeder and connector.

Brian w

Pretty expensive, considering it might have 10 bucks worth of parts.
Are people really so bereft of skills today that they can't solder a
few wires together?


Sure, I have the necessary skills to order a bnc connector, coax and
twin line, then realise (as I did) that I needed a different connector
which comes in five variants; but I don't have the
UHF antenna analyzer (do you, or do you just fumble it?) so I leave that
kind of effort to people who really really enjoy that kind of busy work,
while I get on with what I enjoy... grin

Brian W