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.

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Joe S.