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View Poll Results: What was your *very* first antenna starting out?

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  • ortable VHF/UHF antenna: HT "rubber duckie" short antenna

    89 18.31%
  • Portable VHF/UHF antenna: larger detached antenna (rolled up j-pole, 5/8 whip, Arrow II Yagi, etc)

    35 7.20%
  • Base VHF/UHF station: J-pole antenna/ SlimJim antenna or varient

    32 6.58%
  • Base VHF/UHF station: commercial vertical

    24 4.94%
  • Base VHF/UHF station: other (please list below!)

    16 3.29%
  • HF Station: G5RV antenna

    39 8.02%
  • HF Station: Dipole of some kind

    213 43.83%
  • HF Station: Loop of some kind

    8 1.65%
  • HF Station: other (please list below!)

    92 18.93%
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Thread: What was your *very* first antenna starting out?

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  1. #101

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    Same here ! LOL

  2. #102
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    I just ran some hookup wire out the window down to a tree or something. WHAT is an antenna Tuner? Isn't that what the PLATE and LOAD controls are for????? And it SEEMED to be a good idea at the time to tune the plate and load controls for MAXIMUM PLate Current!!! Didn't work for long though!

  3. #103
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    40 meter dipole about 5 feet above the peak of the roof........ WAS in about four months on either 40 or 15 meters as a Novice CW Operator.
    73 Bill WJ5O/BCN 28.289 MHz

  4. #104
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    TX: A T run lengthwise through the attic, and fed with a single wire through the attic hatch. It induced so much TVI that i only used it twice.

    RX: TV rabbit ears on the DX-160 receiver.
    Steve

    If you have to worry about the cost of HF e-mail, you can't afford the boat.

    CW: The mode that accomplishes the most with the least circuitry, the least spectrum, and the least power.

    What hath God wrought?
    He hath wrought that pounding brass still kicks .- ... ...

  5. #105
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    Jan 2000
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    Commerce MI (Detroit area)
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    My first Ham VHF antenna was a GP made of stiff #14 wire soldered to a SO239 stuck on ther end of a piece of thinwall conduit mounted on the chimney. The rig was a discarded Hammarlund "outercom" commercial radio recrystalled and tuned up on 146.94 simplex.
    This was in the days before repeaters took over the band. AM was the norm. in the early 1970s.
    73.....JD
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  6. #106
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    Sure glad you said "antenna".

    TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

  7. #107
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    Apr 2005
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    A pair of tv rabbit ears adjusted to 19in. Used with heathkit twoer lunchbox-yes, it was in the 60s

  8. #108
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    Aug 2001
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    First Ham Antenna: Larsen Mag Mount ( NMO ) with Two Meter antenna

    Ran it to the Kenwood TR-9130 in my truck.

    Actually used it primarily for SSB work.

    Made many contacts with other 2m SSB'ers up and down the East Coast many years ago.

    I had that TR-9130 before I actually had my license!



    First Transmitter Antenna: Windows screen of the barracks at Btry B 1st Bn 7th ADA Ft Bliss Texas ( tried to load up the bed springs on the bunks but that did not work as well )

  9. #109

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    End-fed long wire

  10. #110
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    The aluminum window frame of my second story bedroom window, attached with a length of speaker wire to my walkie-talkie, when I was 10 yrs old... It worked great!
    Illigitimi Non Carborundum

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