Nah, it's probably not going to work out this year. Hey, the safety  
pin thing was a good idea, though.
On Jun 28, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Colin McDonald wrote:

> hmmm, a safety pin should fit into the BNC center hole no?
> So, use a safety pin, scrape off the coating on the tip, put that  
> into the
> BNC connecter then scrape off the coating around the spring circle  
> on the
> other end of the safety pin, and tie a wire or center of the coax  
> off to
> that.
> Then you can always use a chunk of wire with a slip not around the  
> ground
> portion of the bnc connecter for your ground/counterpoise.
> Sound workable?  You can at least listen for a bit when it gets  
> borring.
> I presume by the discription that the transmitter has a bnc type  
> connecter?
> There has to be somewhere you can find a feed line, like wire or  
> even old tv
> coax or something...
> too bad though if you can't get it working.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
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>>
>> On Jun 28, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Danny Dyer wrote:
>>
>>> just use a piece of wire with the binding post and you'll likely  
>>> snag
>>> somebody, dd.
>>
>> Well, I would, except I also didn't pack a BNC to binding post
>> adapter. I'm just SOL like that....LOL
>>
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