How a redneck in a wheelchair puts up HF dipole

[Punkin Head]

So I wanted to talk on the Drake today so I hooked it up temporarily. Thought some of you would get a kick out of the antenna location as I was talking today.

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[Slyguy]

You better wear your aluminum foil suit before you key it up with any kind of power.

[Punkin Head]

You better wear your aluminum foil suit before you key it up with any kind of power.

lol yea, I was just running the radio, which does 100 watts. Made contact with a guy in Asheville NC with the antenna in that location. It was on 40m. Once I get the hang of this radio I will be happy lol

[MDYoungblood]

Nothing wrong with it if it tunes out. I would try not to run over it too many times with the chair tho, it might crush the coax.

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Greg

[linx]

LOL, all my rowdy redneck friends...

[Punkin Head]

LOL, all my rowdy redneck friends...

You need to set up another HF linx. I think we have a good bit of Hammers that we can get us CBRT net goin lol

[721HACKSAW]

PK you rock! Overcoming difficulties!!

[De_Wildfire]

I have to give it to you. That is so cool. Never thought of that. I tried running a dipole in the attic but the electrical wires that run along the bottom of it killed my project. Now all my antennas are in the trees with a little help.

[str8stroke]

Not sure I can say much. Had some stuff that looked close to that. Didn't have much luck making contacts with it. Glad to hear it worked for you.

[BushHog]

Lmao that is great kev

sent from the Bushhog Mobile

[Punkin Head]

lol sometimes you just gotta do what ya gotta do :D

[Nodoz]

How does that commercial go?? "it's only weird if it doesn't work".

[231]

Heck PH as windy as it was you should have thrown a kite up in the air to pull the apex up. You'd have been making contacts all along the Eastern seaboard! LOL

Not the first time I've heard someone loading up their antenna on the ground.

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[str8stroke]

Really am glad u posted that. Others can sure learn from it. Some of the local CB folks here think that if you don't have a antron 99 100 feet up, it won't work right. In a pinch, I have used one in a umbrella stand and talked around the world.

[peterwo2e]

lol nice i have done that many years ago on 40 meters cw 500 watts long wire inside the house with the counterpoise going the other direction. 15 minutes into my conversation my antenna tuner arc to the point were i thought it was on fire it was a Johnson viking kw tuner love that tuner and still have it. however ever since that day it never work right.. by the way the contact was with Alaska. from new york i had to pump up the power a bit.

[Slyguy]

So PH, you ever get that antenna up outside?

[Punkin Head]

I did get it up. For about a month. Made several contacts up around New England but came home from work one day to find one of the legs of the dipole had broken. It was an odd break tho, it resembled a break you get using a pair of wire cutters (think I have a neighbor that dont like it but scared to talk to me about it).... Havent got around to repairing it and putting it back up. Havent had many days off work lately to mess with it.

[Slyguy]

I did get it up. For about a month. Made several contacts up around New England but came home from work one day to find one of the legs of the dipole had broken. It was an odd break tho, it resembled a break you get using a pair of wire cutters (think I have a neighbor that dont like it but scared to talk to me about it).... Havent got around to repairing it and putting it back up. Havent had many days off work lately to mess with it.

yeah.....we'd have some problems if my antenna got cut. Lol. Good luck getting it fixed.