Just another "old guy" rememberance:
Being 14 years-old and a fresh new Novice, I soldered at PL-259 on
the end of the TV twinlead coming in from my 40m folded dipole and
plugged into the DX-35. The hardy old 6146 loaded it just fine with
the pi-net output circuit. A few years later I learned that was
wrong. I worked a lot of 40m CW while it was wrong!
Later I made two 8-element 2m yagi's using conduit and #8 aluminum
ground wire, hooked it to twin lead and was given a Television 4:1
balun to use for matching the 20w. My two No. 47 pilot lamp SWR
indicator indicated a pretty good match!
I had under $100 in that 2m AM station which included antennas,
35-foot tower, ARC-1, power supply, and WWII tank radio mic. I had a
lot of local ham help. My big DX was Flint, MI (35-miles away).
73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com
EME: 50-1.1kw?, 144-1.4kw, 432-QRT, 1296-?, 3400-?
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