When was the Heath Cantenna introduced? I know it was already old news when I got started in 1968. I found a reference to it in an old 73 article in the January 1963 issue:
The Heath Cantenna - 73 gets out the can opener ........ W3UZN 62 Had PCBs already been discontinued by then? > It doesn't "make it right", but we had transformer shop employees > that literally stood chest deep in the stuff inside large substation > transformers when they were overhauled or a tap needed changed. Although it's probably a good thing that PCBs have been discontinued I have always suspected that the hysteria about them is a bit overdone. Al N1AL On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 19:44 +0000, Ken Kopp wrote: > As a (retired) career power company employee I can say with > reasonable certainty that the "transformer oil" that was available > to --most-- scrounging hams since the introduction of the Cantenna > was -unlikely- to contain PCB's. > > At least in the circumstances familiar to me, PCB-containing > transformer oil was mostly long gone by the time the Cantenna > was introduced. It was certainly gone "as new" out of the barrel, > but did remain in transformers already in place, but few if any > hams received their oil from a transformer. (:-) > > It doesn't "make it right", but we had transformer shop employees > that literally stood chest deep in the stuff inside large substation > transformers when they were overhauled or a tap needed changed. > > 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP > [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
