"Boomer" wrote in message
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Hey it is not all babble. I had my bride hold one end of my dipole once
for a quick check of SWR. It sounds as if I would get out a lot better if
I had her up there holding one end all the time. The bad news is that she
said she was not going to help me any more with climbing trees and
fastening my antennas. She has done this for me for 50 years and now
suddenly she gets cold feet at going up in a little 90 foot fir tree. What
they say is true, "nothing good lasts forever".

She helps with antenna construction but will not climb a tree. I don't
know if this is legal grounds for divorce in Michigan. If it is, I could
show her the statute and ask her again about that 90 foot tree I want her
to climb. She started climbing trees for my antennas when she was 11 years
old. How could she stop now????

Michael

Hello Michael. Over here, in the old country, we attach the wire to a
sapling and we wait. We're good at waiting. As the sapling grows we pay out
a little more wire. Eventually, we have our wire at the height we want.
Caution - if your bride offers to climb a tree for you, do not let her carry
anything heavy.
Stay away from the tree. Wear a hard hat. Tell her that your life insurance
does not pay out for injury or death due to falling objects (for falling
objects are due to gravity and that's an act of nature).

73, Ian.
ps. It has been unduly sunny over here to-day. The sun affects we Brits as
we don't see it very often. In fact, it's probably easier here in Britain to
see an electron shoot past than to see the sun.
73 agn.