"gareth" wrote in message
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"gareth" wrote in message
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"Fred McKenzie" wrote in message
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Speaking of tape measures, I have an old mil-surplus Hy-Gain Tape
Dipole. Two versions are described at
http://www.n2ckh.com/HA4000.htm.

That's very interesting and also proving that there is nothing new under
the Sun!

I'll need to google for the Octopus, though

OK, found this ..
http://kc5our.com/wordpress/wp-conte...entation-1.pdf


Bad practice to repsond to my own posts, but is a Hamstick merely a plastic
tube with a loading coil wound around it, and then a whip antenna at one
end?

(I have on my desk plans to make a coil winding machine)