Wayne...
Another demo of the well known fact that a 50-100w light bulb load with filament
aligned with the correct magnetic field declination for the particular QTH will
entrain polar field ions and function as a 4-el monobander. People are always
forgetting this effect and spending money on big yagis, trying to recapture the light
bulb ion effect. Old timers are useful for keeping this type of info available for
new hams.
...robert
On 12/7/2012 03:53, Wayne Burdick wrote:
In my teens, freshly licensed, I had a Heath DX20 and a Hallicrafters S38D. The
highlight of my first few months was working a guy 2000 miles away on a
60-W-lamp
dummy load and 6' of leaky RG58. I later upgraded to a Heath HW-16 and had a
blast.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
--
Robert G. Strickland, PhD, ABPH - KE2WY
rc...@verizon.net
Syracuse, New York, USA
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