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Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
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Or load up your rain gutters.
Guess it's time to mention the "awntenna" again. :-)
http://www.wintertime.com/OH/73.jpg
The folks at "73" got diagrams 1a and 1b reversed, so take
that into account.
Here's a closeup of the indoor verted-vee ("rabbit ears")
backup antenna mentioned in the article:
http://www.wintertime.com/OH/sebastian.jpg
That article was written 24 years ago (yikes!), so I'm sorry
to say that Sebastian is no longer with us. I have a cat now,
but her ears are way too short for HF.
I ended up working around, I think, 130 countries before I
decommissioned the antenna.
Patty