When I lived in Omaha and was on 75 meters a lot, I got to know a
lot of hams.  It was back in the days when, for local
communications, everybody used 75 meter phone.  This was long
before 2 meter repeaters.  A friend of mine, I was about 15 or 16
at the time, lived in Lincoln and was going to Nebraska
University.  He lived on campus in an 8 story building.  He had a
Galaxy 300, believe it or not, and one day tied up some 28 gage
wire in his window, dropped the coil to the ground, ran down to
the ground and retrieved the coil of thin wire, and walked it over
to the next dormitory building about 80 feet away.  He stood
around and watched guys coming in and out of the building and
finally stopped and talked to one guy to ask if he knew anybody on
the top floor.  The student did.  My friend explain what he needed
to do and the guy took him upstairs and went to a corner room. 
The student in that room allowed him to drop a string down to the
ground, to which the wire was attached, and then pulled up to the
window.  He attached the other end of the thin wire to a small
insulator just outside the window.  Thanking them, he hurried
downstairs and as he walked back to his dorm, he looked up to try
and fine his 28 gage wire 80 feet off the ground.  It could not be
seen.  He hooked up the wire to his home made tuner.  He was one
 the loudest signals from Lincoln who checked in to the traffic
net every evening.  I asked him how the tuning went.  He said it
was very touchy, due to the small diameter of the wire, but he
could go any where he needed to on 75 meters, which was all he
really wanted, and as I said, he was always loud.

Phil.

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