Roy, as a novice for Field Day it was raining cats and dogs... I went
to the family farm out in the boonies and hung a 40 meter dipole the
length of the barn, in the rafters and out of the rain...... Didn't
occur to me that being about 8 feet under the metal roofing would be a
problem... Well, even as a really green novice I knew when an antenna
was a dog... That dipole couldn't even hear itself... And that is with
the dipole being 35 feet in the air in the rafters... My Lafayette kit
receiver (copy of an S-38, boy did those half circle dial indicators
look cool) and a rock bound HeathKit DX-35... I froze my butt off in
the milk house that night trying to make contacts... I don't remember
the exact number but it could not have been more than 25 Q's... About
4AM I gave up and went back to town...

denny / k8do



Roy Lewallen wrote:
wrote:
. . .there is foil on the back of my attic roofing. . .