My slinky is glued to a JUNK CD at each end with SHOE-GOO. The hole in one CD is opened up to an inch and the hole in the other is closed off to 3/8" with scrap plastic and shoe goo.
I just stick the telescoping pole up thru the slinky/CD, telecope it up and I ahve a slinky-imitation of a St. louis Vertical (receive only) Bottom extension is tensioned with a clip at the bottom of the pole, shoe-gooed on of course. Cram the aluminum spike at the base of the poLe (EPOXIED IN) into the ground.
Still working with the home made balun for best performance, but if one of you 'speriments as well perhaps we can get a poor man's buddy-pole
i told you that story to ask you this ?
Traditional coax si a PIA to haul on a camping trip.... I found some about 1/8" very thin flexible coax...My eyes are too poor to read...I think its RG 174/U...is this stuff any good for reception only. In experiments with it at home, I cant seem to get any signal with it .
Yodar
;>) Yodar More STUFF!
----Original Message Follows---- From: "Gary Crites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HCDX] Beware of "Slinky Antennas" Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:47:17 -0400 (EDT)
I know this is a DX site but I thought you might all get a laugh out of this one. I like to drive out to some remote area and string a wire but lately I've been using a toy Slinky clipped to my car under pretty high tension. The advantage of the Slinky is that if I get too close or too far from the pole I clip to the Slinky is always tight and straight.
Of course it's only a matter of time before some unsuspecting old lady hiker comes walking down the railroad tracks not looking where she's going and... KA-WAM! Yes, the Slinky pulled loose and hit her right in the face! She wasn't too happy.
I'm in the process now of building a loop antenna for MW.
73's Gary Crites Eureka, California
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