"Full-sized" whip on a VW Beetle? I thought there for a moment maybe you were the guy with the VW on the cover of CQ for September 1961:
http://hamcall.net/cqcgi/?res=l&yr=1961&mo=09&pg=001 That _had_ to be pretty efficient for a mobile antenna. As I recall from reading about it originally when I was a kid something was mentioned about overpasses being a hazard. That probably would be true as I think it was described as a quarter wave... for 40M.... 73, Al On Sun July 12 2015 9:53:18 pm Alan wrote: > > When I moved to California in 1979 I operated the CW county hunters' > nets from my VW beetle driving out from Ohio. It was a blast. I used a > full-sized CB whip on the rear bumper with a tuner. The Drake TR7 and > tuner were in a cardboard box in the passenger's wheel well and the key > paddle was mounted on a board attached to the box. Worked great. > > > I have the Heil Pro headset that Elecraft sold with the > > rig. But I don¹t want a headset while I¹m driving, right? > > At least in California it's illegal to have both ears covered while > driving, but it's OK to have only one ear covered. > > Alan N1AL > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wb5...@centurytel.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
