I am trying to catch up with all the messages on this list, and am 
reading from, would you believe 2008, 3 years ago when a couple of 
you got the PW1.  I attempted to order one about 4 months ago from 
that web site, all went through including processing my credit card 
information, except for one little problem: they had none and 
shouldn't have even processed the order.  After a week or so I wrote 
to them and got the reply: "sorry not in stock and don't know when 
will be if ever."
So, since my choice of radios is narrowing down to either the 2000, 
or the 590, or maybe the 480, it would benefit this operator to have 
some sort of SWR indicator.  I have an old MFJ audible SWR bridge, 
which is actually quite nice, come to think of it, but a talking one, 
now there's class!
I can be wistful and hope, like a kid looking in at all the toys in 
the store at Christmas time, I suppose, unless someone can come up 
with one they wish to  sell, or an estate sale or . . ., who knows.

And, another thing, are antennas: I own this house with it's double 
lot of 75 by 150 feet, with trees and three buildings, but remember 
this is North Dakota so the weather and wind are extremes, so if you 
have ideas for a quite simple installation, please let me know.
A windom, perhaps? or a folded dipole, with dropped ends like an inverted V?
I remember my Elmer, WA6UYD, (became N6YD, a silent key now), use to 
make multi band antennas using multi-wire shielded cable, cutting 
each wire to approximate resonance.  An eighty / forty meter antenna 
should be able to be fashioned out of such, seems to me without too 
much need for much, except figuring out where it should be fed and 
with what, and how?




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Currently in Fessenden, North Dakota Clear, 73°F Wind:W-280° at 23mph 
gusting to 33mph
REAL procrastination is watching a hungry bear walk up to you while 
having a picnic, and not running because hey, you've got the rest of your life.

Curtis Delzer
W B 6 H E F