Just another "old guy" rememberance: Being 14 years-old and a fresh new Novice, I soldered at PL-259 on the end of the TV twinlead coming in from my 40m folded dipole and plugged into the DX-35. The hardy old 6146 loaded it just fine with the pi-net output circuit. A few years later I learned that was wrong. I worked a lot of 40m CW while it was wrong!
Later I made two 8-element 2m yagi's using conduit and #8 aluminum ground wire, hooked it to twin lead and was given a Television 4:1 balun to use for matching the 20w. My two No. 47 pilot lamp SWR indicator indicated a pretty good match! I had under $100 in that 2m AM station which included antennas, 35-foot tower, ARC-1, power supply, and WWII tank radio mic. I had a lot of local ham help. My big DX was Flint, MI (35-miles away). 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kw?, 144-1.4kw, 432-QRT, 1296-?, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
