I was first licensed as G3UTY in 1964. My first rugs were home brew, 2 tube Rx and 2 tube Tx on "Top Band" (1.8 Mhz). We used to run mobile using a center loaded 8 ft whip attached to the rear bumper. I could work a lot of europe with that configuration...
You don't know what you can do until you try :-) Dave KK7SS > Shoot, I know a lot of guys > who have run 160 mobile in motion with a whip no more that 10 > or so feet long. (Actually, the more successful ones of the > '50s ran a long whip tied to the rear bumper looped over and > tied to the front bumper to form a loop with the car body, but > they were still very small antennas. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
