I can personally attest to the performance of a beercan vertical, actually
soda can in my case as I was only 16. Using that QST article (been an ARRL
member since 1954 when my folks gave me a QST subscription for my birthday)
I built a 20M version and put it on my folks garage roof with 8 drooping
radials.
It worked gangbusters then which was leading up to that monster sunspot
cycle where you could work the world with just about anything.
In later years I tried to build one for 40M using Bud cans which were thin
aluminum by then. I used plumbers liquid (diluted hydrochloric acid) to
solder. That held but the cans were too flimsy and after they buckled 3
times I gave up.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Markavage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Just a thought for laughter and memory
Designer of the Beer Can Vertical, Pete Czerwinski, W2JTJ, published in
QST, November 1955. Here's a similar article published in QST, April
1956:
http://www.qsl.net/w3bmd/beercanantenna.htm
Back then, cans were made of tin, so soldering was easier then cans made
from aluminum types today, if you were so inclined to build one of these
things.
Pete, wa2cwa
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:17:54 -0600 Robert Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
I would think that most of us ain't no more spring chicken (rosters)
anymore, so I though I would ask this in light of some of the
serious
exchanges that I've read/deleted over the AM band plan ala
IRAU/ARRL
recently.
Question: What was your favorite April QST April Fool's article, or
one
that could have qualified?
I remember from years past "The Vertical Beer Can Special" and also
the
ham who wrote the article on the compact antenna mounted atop the
roof
of his high rise New York apartment building with the radiating
element
being a red light bulb with comments on all those he contacted on
the
bands using the antenna aks dummy load.
Robert W4RL
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