"Greezeball Joe" wrote in message
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On Jul 27, 10:05 am, "John Doe" wrote:
Did someone turn off Marky's spigot??


Nah.......He's been over on NIMbusters with Lloyd and Woger
stirring up the crap over there. Seems NIMbusters is FULL
of ignorant TOILET TIC's who like a good keyclown session.

See 4 yourself: www.nimbusters.org

Click on the BBS link at the top of the page and be sure to wear a
condom.

Please, do NOT stare a Gift Horse in the mouth. The longer Mark remains
absent from this group, the better off we all are.
I'll be darned if some of you Old Farts don't seem miss him...and why?

Leave him alone and hope he has gone away. Mark is busy on Nimbusters with
the rest of the Sewer Posters. Please do not invite his crap back to this
newsgroup.

Meanwhile, I am putting together a Vertical J antenna designed for 2M. There
are tons of plans for these "j"s, so mine is no exception. I built mine from
3/4 inch square aluminum tubing (scrap) and was pleasantly surprised to find
that it is very broad-banded. It is 1.1 at 146.00 and only 1.3 at 154.600.
I am aware that you Purists would prefer to build these "J"s using copper
pipe, but this aluminum antenna works like a charm. Since I have a buddy who
can weld aluminum, and with the measurements I gave him, the thing works
very nicely indeed.
We also put one together for the 222 MHz band and it, too, works very well.
Trouble is that few around here use 220, most being No-Coders who tie up the
repeaters with their CB style "I heard that, I did" stuff.

I can give measurements to anybody who may be interested.

Name and call withheld by design.