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jawod wrote:
I was listening to 40M the other night and a reasonably clear SSB signal came from a guy in Pennsylvania using 100 W to a rain gutter. It was apparently raining at the time in PA. All the mathematical modeling and tweaking discussed in this group ... I thought the successful use of a rain gutter deserved some praise here. Why? There's nothing unusual or exceptional about it. I used one successfully on 80 meters for a number of years from an apartment in Denver. And when I was a kid my main 20 meter antenna was an approximately half wavelength of #28 enamled wire slammed in my window and running to a clothesline pole in the back yard. Insulator was a plastic curtain ring. Worked lots of stateside stations from Alaska with a homebrew 6L6 rig -- probably about 10 watts output. I've worked JA on 40 meter CW with a base loaded CB whip from a VW squareback and about 8 watts, and Alaska from Denver (good signal report on SSB) with 50 watts using a dipole strung around a basement. I worked New Hebrides on 40 meters with a bent attic dipole 16 feet above ground, (#28 hookup wire stapled to the eave) and running 1.5 watts. Solid copy, and I got a QSL. A rain gutter probably would have done better. Anyone who's been a ham for a few years probably has a handful of similar stories. What conclusions should we draw from them? Roy Lewallen, W7EL |
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