Jack, I once worked Illinois from California on 15 meters using a 60-W light bulb fed with three feet of zipcord. At that time (age 13) my shack was a 4' x 5' pool-equipment closet in the garage. The bulb was mounted on a shelf, pulling the zip cord straight up and taut -- a "short vertical."
The rig was a Heath DX20. What I wouldn't have given for a K3 :) 73, Wayne N6KR On Jun 7, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Jack Smith wrote: > In the days of vacuum tube transmitters, we commonly used a 100 watt > incandescent light bulb as a dummy load. It has the advantage of giving > an immediate indication of output power. And, because the usual > arrangement was to use a few feet of zip cord between the transmitter > and bulb, one could easily work a couple miles with the "dummy" antenna > --- http://www.elecraft.com ______________________________________________________________ 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
