Been there, done that one too. Hamfest in Concordia, KS back in the
early 80's just after I retired from the Army. Used an old Ten-Tec
Argonaut and loaded the entire gutter system at the motel the hamfest
was held at. There was so much corrosion in the joints that even the 5
watt Argonaut wiped out TV reception throughout the whole motel. Worked
a whole bunch of stations on 20 meters too. Good thing they never
figured out where the problem was coming from - LOL!
Jim - W0EB
------ Original Message ------
From: "Wayne Burdick" <[email protected]>
To: "Nr4c" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Elecraft" <[email protected]>; "Jim GM"
<[email protected]>
Sent: 7/4/2014 6:20:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] A Good Antenna Length?
On Jul 4, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Nr4c <[email protected]> wrote:
I once worked a friend who'd just moved and was using a "GutterTron"
ant in the CQWW. Yeah, the gutter and downspout fed against a
ground-rod.
Another friend loaded up the liner in his chimney, called a
GutterTron.
I worked all over the country on 10 and 15 meters recently using a
large metal window frame (5' x 8' picture window) as the antenna. I
used alligator clips directly from the KX3 to two spots on the frame,
experimenting with spacing. This is not described in the literature,
but it worked. The ATU tuned up the window frame to ~1.0:1 on 20-6
meters.
Wayne
N6KR
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