In article , Dick Grady
AC7EL wrote:

Guess it's time to mention the "awntenna" again. :-)

http://www.wintertime.com/OH/73.jpg

While the idea seems practicable, I notice that article appeared in the
April 1986 issue of 73 Magazine. So I have to ask, was it a joke?

I'd say it's in the "tongue in cheek" category. The final sentence
says it: "My gratitude... to all of the above for contributing valuable
jargon with which to obfuscate the subject."

The awning idea itself is quite practical... a lot of people have made
very useful contacts by loading up rain gutters, aluminum window
screens, bridges, and so forth. It's described in a not-quite-serious
fashion (e.g. as a close-spaced array of curved radiators).

The idea of using an actual rabbit, as a "verted" rabbit-ear dipole, is
certainly a joke. Actually attempting to transmit via a rabbit would
result in severe QRM ("quispy roasted mammal").

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In article ,
Dave Platt wrote:

I'd say it's in the "tongue in cheek" category. The final sentence
says it: "My gratitude... to all of the above for contributing valuable
jargon with which to obfuscate the subject."

The jargon is made up; the antenna was real. So was the radiation
pattern. (We drove around Sunnyvale taking measurements.) I don't
recall why "73" published the article in April. A similar article
appeared in an Australian ham magazine, probably not in an April
issue.


Patty