That just proves you never know what's going to work. That sounds like a lot 
of fun too.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 6:31 AM
Subject: a day in the park


>I spent yesterday afternoon with w9njy, running portable sitting at a 
>picnic
> table out in a park.  It was sunny and warm for us here, probably mid 
> 60's.
> We litterally threw a 55 foot dipole fed with 300 ohm line up in the 
> trees.
> Put it on a kx-3, and turned the radio on.  I worked w1aw-8 on 20 meter CW
> using the internal battery power.  So that was 5 watts.
> Then we added a 50 watt amp, 7 amp hour battery pack, and switched to a 
> LDG
> tuner.
> Then just for grins we plugged in a mike.
> Now the SWR with out the tuner on 10 was 10/1.  Shouldn't radiate even if 
> we
> can tune it.
> Well we sat there until it was pitch dark.  Worked the contest on 10 15 
> and
> 20.
> We made 60 contacts in maybe 2.5 hours.
> Everything from Argentena to alaska to Japan.
> By the end we were wearing the coats hoods and gloves that we brought 
> along.
> This will be a memory to keep in February.
> We used a slingshot connected to a fishing line to make the path over the
> tree limbs.  Then we disconnected the fishing line, pulled a rope over,
> hooked the antenna to the line and pulled it up to the branch.  Did that 
> on
> each end and let the center hang.
>
> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
> Adaptive Technology Instructor
>
>
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