John S wrote in :

I know of Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, but I have never watched.
Probably my loss. In any case, let's do the antenna thing. Yes?


I think you may need someone better at it than I am right now. I've just
been looking at pjotos of a vertical whip to consider making the junction of
fences it's mounted over into somethign better approximating thre radials of
goodish length, and it's very crude work, very basic practical salvage of an
awkward location. Apart from an FM dipole for listening, and a portanle
longwire to experiment with a Beverage antenna on open land I have access to.
This one is the likely sagging antenna, hence my interest in catenary
effects, but I'm not well placed to try modelling anything yet. I'll want to
finish the thing and get it out there just to try listening to stuff a while
first.