The Maco V-Quad is famous from Bill Stone. He is the resident expert on it,
but his does a fabulous job at much lower than 40 feet. I told my late wife
before we married that I was a ham before I met her and would stay a ham for
the rest of my life, learn to live with it. She never questioned the beauty of
my antennas, but she resented the time. She said one time that either the ham
radio goes or she goes and I immediately started putting the ham equipment in
my van then followed with my clothes. After a couple of days she decided that
that warning was not such a good idea. The next fall she finished studying
code enough to get a Tech then an Advanced (the Tech involved the same test as
General in those days, but the advanced could be had with a tougher test and 13
wpm). WB5NVH earned her 5 band WAS in 1976. Last year she died of COPD and
Kidney Failure 3 days after our 51st Anniversary. I don't know your wife and I
am by no means
qualified as a marriage counselor even if I did, so you are own your own to
convince her that there are worse things that could happen beside a V Quad.
Maybe she needs to get accustomed to the vertical before the V-Quad shows up
again. Maybe you should operate a while before you convince her of the real
truth, that aq V-Quad is truly a beautiful sight.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman
K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
On Friday, June 20, 2014 12:54 PM, Gayle Dotts via BVARC <[email protected]>
wrote:
For some reason the older messages got truncated and are not comming through.
So I revisited on another message. I am going to tonight get readings on the
15 m and adjust tubes like I did with the 10 m. I'll call the 10 good and move
on. I orderded some RG8X coax to do a good baulm, should be in early next
week. On the side..... this weekend I am planning to not turn my back on the
also new and untuned Maco V-quad and new rotor which wife and others said was
too big and a eyesore......WELL.... "Too bad it's my hobby...deal with it"....l
can stealth it up my 40' foldable mast in 7 minutes at dusk and hit the 10-10
net if need be. What am l going to do, throw it away??? Just one more option
but my main concern right now is the 5btbv!! One thing at a time.
73.
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