On 3 Mar 2005 08:50:16 -0800, wrote:


Joe S. wrote:
In 1996, I disassembled my antenna farm that graced the 3-acre plot
where we
lived in Manassas, VA:
-- 40- and 50-foot Rohn towers
-- two 135-foot dipoles each center-fed with ladder line
-- TH7
-- assorted VHF and UHF beams
-- 40-mtr inverted Vee

Bundled it all up and moved from Virginia to Tennessee where I moved
into a
restricted subdivision. The antenna farm stayed bundled up in the
crawl
space.

In 2003, sold the house and moved into an apartment at which point I
sold
the antenna farm for a fraction of what I paid for it.

Now, in 2005, living in an apartment on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
and
trying to scrape together the money to build a house on a 100 x
100-foot lot
where maybe I can put up a short dipole but will not be able to have
a
tower.

So -- what's the point? As I sit here and read the debates about
this wire,
that vertical, some other yagi, yes/no on the Carolina Windom, advice
on an
antenna for a 10-acre plot -- I can't help but think: If you have an
antenna, thank the gods because any antenna radiates better than no
antenna.

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Joe S.

You can always operate from the car...Seriously...If I had no shack,
antennas, etc, I would still have a decent mobile rig. You can sit
in it, or just park it in the driveway, and run a coax to it, from
house, garage, etc...I've done the "remote mobile antenna" thing
many times when camping...I'll sit the rig on a picnic table, and
run coax to the car antenna. Works better than you might think.
The higher bands, very good. MK

Sure. My Elmer and neighbor had an acre and lots of bux but he still
liked his "mobile" rig.

http://www.qsl.net/n7ws/w7uvr.jpg

This was "state-of-the-art" in 1958.

Full tilt with a high level modulated 4-1000A. Thirty foot "tower"
and 2 el. beam for high bands and remotely tuned verticals for lower
bands.