Be sure to take a camera.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ok fellas.. The 2nd annual Big Luv Country break is this coming up weekend... April 24 2004.... Directions from the north take 95s to Route 460 in Petersburg V.A.. Take 460e to the town of Windsor V.A... Keydown is just past the foodlion on the right hand side... You cant miss it.... Call me or email me for more info.... number13va@cox.net or 757-650-5173.. Thanks ahead of time for the use of the forum... TommyGunn, Carl, and Frank.... #13VA[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

Documentation, documentation, documentation.

[W5HTW]

Is this a &quot;luv-in?&quot; Didn't they go out in the late 60s?

Ed

[W3MIV]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (W5HTW @ April 15 2004,17:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Is this a &quot;luv-in?&quot; # Didn't they go out in the late 60s? #

Ed[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Gawd! Can you just imagine what those wimmen look like today? I suggest a Luv-out.

[KA4DPO]

What's yer love handle good buddy, breaker broke.......

[KA9VQF]

Well this may be a bit off your subject but when I saw the 'tinfoil hat' bit it made me think of the steel pot I have. I think it was one of those CD civil defense air warden hats. Anyway the thing is I drilled a hole in the top of it put a banana jack in the hole and put a ¼ wave for 2M on the plug and ran coax to it. It worked pretty well it just was so blame heavy.

[K9STH]

VQF:

If you had a steel &quot;CD Warden&quot; helmet then you had a very rare item! I wouldn't have drilled a hole in it. Virtually all of the CD Warden helmets were made of bakelite and later fiberglass. They were much &quot;lighter&quot; than the steel ones!

Actually, the warden helmets were the same as the &quot;liners&quot; that were used in World War II, Korea, and most of Viet Nam. They were just painted white with the &quot;CD&quot; decal on them.

MPs used to wear the same white painted liners but had &quot;MP&quot; on them when they weren't wearing their &quot;CPO&quot; (Navy Chief Petty Officer style) white hats. I had to wear the same helmet and the same CPO hat when I was in the Pershing Rifles (Army R.O.T.C. college fraternity) in the 1962 - 1966 time frame. Yes, I graduated a 2nd lieutenant. No, I never served on active duty (eyesight is way too bad without glasses - like &quot;enemy, what enemy, I don't see any enemy&quot;!). The Army decided that even when Viet Nam was just going good that I wouldn't make good cannon fodder and because of my vision, I couldn't remain stateside and run a Signal Corps company! Signal Corps was &quot;combat arms&quot; and I couldn't be in combat arms!

Glen, K9STH

[KA9VQF]

Mine was in very tough shape when I unearthed it. I beat the dents out of it and repainted it OD, most of the original paint was gone and I never did find anything like a ‘CD’ decal on it.

I was a bit worried that having even the 1 watt or so that my HT produced that close to my squishy little brain was probably a bad idea.

It has the wide brim like the ‘CD’ helmets you see in the movies, the British solders had the same type so it could be one of them. I can't find any manufacturing names on it.

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