On 5 Oct 2006 14:11:35 -0700, "Denny" wrote:

Absolutely not ignoring you Walt... Your name is certainly known to
me... Shucks I have been reading my pablum stained copy of
'reflections' for years... I have to say it is tough sledding when one
reads by sliding his finger along the print whilst making lip
movements... Could you have used shorter words, say less than one
syllable, for folks like me - especially the preface?

I guess you got the pablum stains on the pages while sliding your finger along
the print, eh? That's probably why you need words of less than one syllable. I
heard from our mutual friend Mac N8TT that you're a doctor. A D.O. probably?
(Why else with that call sign?) Then of course you graduated from words of less
than one syllable to writing less than decipherable prescriptions. Right?

Now, on the pencil tuner - scouts honor on the facts I posted - if you
think the end of a half wave antenna won't bite, try it! From the
color of the burns on my finger I would say that it was at least 1834z
+/- j1571...

Oh, I believe you when you say the end of an antenna bites. I've often drawn
4-inch arcs with a pencil from the end of a 20-m dipole with 500 w input. The
only problem I have with your arcs is that when you stretch a normal-length
feedline out to a hundred yards, the diameter of the conductor becomes so small
that it takes a megger to measure its resistance. How are you gonna get enough
current through it to see a spark at the end of the dipole?

I did not see an email from you in the inbox... Nope not spoofing my
email, but it may be an outdated one... Current Email address is:



The address I used was . It came back undeliverable--with
that address it figgers.

My main reason for answering your posts is to say that my signal gets out pretty
well on this band--R9 sig in Australia, yet no skip over Hemlock from nearby Mt.
Pleasant. You and Mac are the only Michigan contacts I've made on this band.
Pretty neat propagation, eh? Did you know the airline distance between us is
only 26 miles?

I'm originally from Mt. P, but left in 1940, then back in 1946 after WW2.
Retired to Florida, but became a snowbird when I remet and married my
high-school sweetheart in 1996. She is an emeriti professor at CMU, so we live
in her house in Mt. P. in summer, and in mine in DeLand, FL during the winter.
We're leaving for FL Oct 30, so we won't have time to meet before then, but we
should next summer.

Walt