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: Joe S. wrote:
: In 1996, I disassembled my antenna farm that graced the 3-acre plot
: where we
: lived in Manassas, VA:
: -- 40- and 50-foot Rohn towers
: -- two 135-foot dipoles each center-fed with ladder line
: -- TH7
: -- assorted VHF and UHF beams
: -- 40-mtr inverted Vee
:
: Bundled it all up and moved from Virginia to Tennessee where I moved
: into a
: restricted subdivision. The antenna farm stayed bundled up in the
: crawl
: space.
:
: In 2003, sold the house and moved into an apartment at which point I
: sold
: the antenna farm for a fraction of what I paid for it.
:
: Now, in 2005, living in an apartment on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
: and
: trying to scrape together the money to build a house on a 100 x
: 100-foot lot
: where maybe I can put up a short dipole but will not be able to have
: a
: tower.
:
: So -- what's the point? As I sit here and read the debates about
: this wire,
: that vertical, some other yagi, yes/no on the Carolina Windom, advice
: on an
: antenna for a 10-acre plot -- I can't help but think: If you have an
: antenna, thank the gods because any antenna radiates better than no
: antenna.
:
: --
:
: -----
: Joe S.
:
: You can always operate from the car...Seriously...If I had no shack,
: antennas, etc, I would still have a decent mobile rig. You can sit
: in it, or just park it in the driveway, and run a coax to it, from
: house, garage, etc...I've done the "remote mobile antenna" thing
: many times when camping...I'll sit the rig on a picnic table, and
: run coax to the car antenna. Works better than you might think.
: The higher bands, very good. MK
:

I thought about hooking my Kenwood TS 520
up to my car and doing the mobile thing also.Only problem is I have a Honda
Civic and it does not offera lot of room for the rig and was wondering about
current draw on my alternator ie would I need a bigger alternator for that
etc.
I'm definetly a newbie when it comes to mobile hamming HF.Hate to break into
a thread like this but you guys intigued me into the subject .....
Thanks .