On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:29:15 +0100, "Christopher O'Callaghan"
wrote:

never saw a car with 6 big antennas(3-4 feet)and 3 small ones all on mag
mounts...WOW

WOW? You must be kidding.

Here's my "Elmer's" mobile rig circa 1958.

http://www.qsl.net/n7ws/w7uvr.jpg

Folding 2 el beam (later three elements) on 30' rotatable pneumatic
mast.

4-1000A high-level plate modulated (later SSB linear). "Pole-pig"
transformer, with extra leaf in the spring on that side.

5 KW generator (later 15KW)

Two bumper mounted, hat-loaded verticals with remotely tuned
vacuum-variable/rotary-inductor tuning.

Wow, what a great set of pictures of "how things used to was"!!!!!!!!!!!!

You really had to be dedicated and love what you were doing.

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:42:36 -0600, "Topaz305RK"
wrote:

Wow, what a great set of pictures of "how things used to was"!!!!!!!!!!!!

You really had to be dedicated and love what you were doing.


Or to be just a little crazy... but as they say, you don't have to be
crazy to be a ham, but it helps.

Field day activities were fun. Somehow replacing cubic metres of field
equipment with a shoebox sized "black box" that does 100W of SSB from
160m to 7ocm has eliminated much of the fun.

We are seduced by radios with lots of features in silicon, often
without much regard for how it performs as a receiver, things that we
can't fix, whether because of a lack of knowledge, test jigs,
alignment / diagnostic software or board rework equipment. We have
come a long way!

Owen

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