Hi Eden,
Well, I don't know if you saw my post on this earlier this week or not, but if you didn't, I'll repeat it for ya, and I think you'll love it!
Now of course for the rest of yall, who have heard it, if ya want to skip it, just use that good ole delete key, hi hi!
Well Eden, in 1981, I was on spring break, as I was a 9th grader in high school.
I was going to go and spend a week with my brother Ian, near Jackson, Mi.
I asked if I could bring my rig, and he said, "sure can."
So, along with my suit case with personal stuff, went my rig power supply, and my mfj manual, not automatic, antenna tuner!
So, we get there, and the next afternoon, (a Monday afternoon, I'll never forget it!), I asked him, "Ian, I know you got a chain link fence out back, can we go to radio shack so I can get a piece of copper wire?"
He said, "sure can, let's go!"
So, we get there and get back home with the piece of copper wire, and then, I go into the bedroom where my Kenwood ts120 is sitting on the desk by the window. So, on the back of the antenna tuner there was a post which was labeled, "wire".
So, I unscrewed the knob, just enough to put one end of the copper wire around the post.
Then, I went outside and took the other end of the piece of copper wire, and connected it to the end of that chain link fence!
Then, I came inside, and thought, "well, it's now or never, because everybody says these tuners can tune anything, so, we'll see if they were right."
Scared, because well, I didn't think it would tune it, I turned on the power supply and then the rig. I got on 80 meter cw, and tryed to check into the Michigan novice net.
Eden, I checked in, they heard me, and gave me a signal report of 579, just 2 numbers below the best signal report you could have!!!
I also made other contacts on 80, 40, and 20!
On 20, the person I had a QSO with said, "Trippy, what in the heck are ya running? You're the loudest signal on the band!"
Before I fell on the floor being shocked by his signal report, I told him, "well, are you ready for this? I'm running a kenwood ts120, and an mfj941C manual antenna tuner, and running it into a piece of copper wire, connected to one end of a chain link fence in my brothers backyard!"
So, there ya go, a chain link fence antenna!
73,
Trippy, ac8s
----- Original Message -----
From: Eden Kizer
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: apartment dwelling antennas
yep sure is a chain link. Lol.
Eden
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On 7/17/2012 6:39 PM, Harry Brown wrote:
> Hi Eden,
> Wow, a fenced in patio?
> Is that a chain link fence?
> Trippy, ac8s
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: Eden Kizer=20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:03 AM
> Subject: Re: apartment dwelling antennas
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> we are kind of wanting one put together, and we have a fenced in=20
> patio so not very good for trees. I mean, there are woods behind us,=20
> but we realy can't go outside our patio.
>
> Eden
>
> On 7/17/2012 8:13 AM, John Miller wrote:
> > The easiest way is if there are any trees, run a wire antenna, a =
> dipole in
> > the trees. Trees give you a ton of options for any band actually.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eden Kizer"<[log in to unmask]>
> > To:<[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:02 AM
> > Subject: apartment dwelling antennas
> >
> >
> > =20
> >> Ok, I have been given the go ahead for the apartment to have an =
> antenna
> >> as long as I do not attach to the apartment building itself. Give =
> me a
> >> good idea on antennas please, and Gary if you still have that, we =
> want
> >> it. Call asap as we can begin payment on Thursday to you. Just =
> call me
> >> as I am at home at 317-735-2301. I can discuss terms, but I needed =
> some
> >> ideas on apartment antennas. Thanks.
> >>
> >> Eden
> >> =20
> >
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