Hi Mike, Thinking of N6BT Tom Schiller's famous LBOTA demonstrations at Pacificon and elsewhere (Light Bulbs on the Air), I wonder if any one has a documented a case of HOTA (Ham on the Air): Someone with no antenna other than themselves. Maybe connect one side of the antenna to a stake in the ground and the other side to your belt buckle. Like Rudolf the RF-nosed reindeer.
Oliver W6ODJ On 6 Jan. 2013, at 11:02 AM, Mike Herr <wa6...@gmail.com> wrote: > On a SOTA in Death Valley I noticed something strange. Using a buddistick, > I would touch up the SWR using the KX3 internal tuner. 1:1, ok, now > transmit. The SWR would jump up. It would take a couple of cycles to get it > to calm down again. Now thinking about it, When I first pressed the ATU > tune, I was not holding the rig, it was sitting on the ground. When I > started using the rig I had the head phones on and the paddle on my leg or > the mic in my hand. Likely those two things were affecting my "ground" > Anyone else see this? Now I need to go back out and experiment with it.;) > > -- > Mike Herr > WA6ARA > DM-15dp > Home of The QRP Ranch > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
