04-19-14 12:15 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Resurrected

 RW> {at}MSGID: 
 RW> Greetings Ed!

Hi Roy!

 EV>> CB'ers were Licensed to USE their Radios, NOT EXPERIMENT with them.

 RW>> CBers were licensed to use their radios in a manner complient
 RW>> with the FCC's Part 97 rules. Not many did. And, what's the use

 EV> Part 97????????   Part 15!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    

 RW> None of the above. Part 97 was a typo on my part. Part 95,
 RW> Subpart D covers the Citizens Band (CB) Radio Service. The
 RW> present rules state that one can use a previously issued
 RW> license to operate on CB channels although no license is
 RW> required. That must mean that they keep records going as far
 RW> back as 1959, so I could use my 18W call or my favorite call,

The only FCC Part I could think of was the one for 100 milliwatt
walki-talkies Part 15. Sorry, but since I've never been licensed under
Part 95 and haven't read any CB literature in a L O N G  time I used
the wrong Part number.
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 RW>>> When you get an education in 'antenna theory', a balun or a
 RW>>> gamma match is so much easier to fab and put into service.

 EV>> This topic caused me to remember a friend showed me his 6 Meter
 EV>> antenna with a BETA MATCH instead of a GAMMA MATCH on it. It was a
 EV>> Hy-Gain antenna.

 RW>> Why not build one that doesn't need either?

 EV> That's a Long Wire or Dipole isn't it? Or using Open Wire Twin Lead?

 RW> No, most sixers use verttical antennas, so a ground plane will
 RW> do...the business or commercial radio service uses vertical
 RW> antennas too.

In my area 4 Land and 9 Land 6 Meter Antennas were the Halo or Saturn
horizontally polarized type, although I did use my Sixer in the 1965
Ford Custom 500 by unplugging the AM Radio antenna cord and with a
adapter from it to PL-259 slde it over the SO-239 connector on the back
of my Sixer.
I also used a Inverter Power Supply for it, do You remember those BUZZING
things?

 EV>> To me the Beta Match looked simpler to adjust so I got one for
 EV>> myself.

The Beta Match is Two Parallel Rods with a piece of metal that slides
along the Rods to adjust the antenna.

 RW>> My entire being was interested in building my own antennas,
 RW>> rather than talking about it.

 EV> 40 meter Dipole, 20 meterInverted Vee, 80 meter Slinky are the only
 EV> antennas I've built.

I forgot to mention the 2M J-Pole and 2M SO-239 Grond Plane I've made.
Memory is not my strong point anymore, if it ain't written down I
forget.

I ought to carry a cassette recorder with me as one of the Pastors I
knew of did, to record my thoughts as I think of them.

One trick I will use is if I was at Your QTH and told You when I got
home I'd get something for You to bring the next time we met, is to ask
to use your telephone.
I would call my home number and leave a message on the Answering
Machine about what I said I would do, so when I came in my house I
would see the LED Blinking on the machine and listen to the call(s)
on to remind me what I said, because when I walk through my doorway
I am in my own little world, and have forgotten everything going on in
the outside world.  But You and the Rest here already know that. HI!

 RW> I've had a use for 40 inverted V many years ago. It was also my
 RW> 80m antenna with coils to make it electrically longer. In any
 RW> case, it was center fed and there was a center feed piece that
 RW> was manufactured by some antenna guru back then that allowed a
 RW> 50ohm coax to feed it without any matching device.

 EV> I also used a Vertical for 80 and 40 and a 2 meter Cross Yagi Beam
 EV> that I ordered through the mail.
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 RW> I don't suppose that you've ever heard of a Gizmochie
 RW> antenna...it was a vertical/horizontal yagi that when viewed
 RW> from the end, looked like the Empire's Star Fighter. See

I never heard the word but I seem to recall seeing the Trianglar
Antenna mounted on some CB'ers homes.

 RW> illustration below. It required two sections of feedline from
 RW> the shack to the gamma matches on the verticle and the
 RW> horizontal (actually at 120 degrees from verticle) elements. I
 RW> built one four element beam and a buddy of mine copied it, but
 RW> stacked two of them together with one of the horizontal
 RW> elements missing so that they'd fit on the cross boom he made
 RW> for it.                Thus!

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 RW> We also built a DDRR antenna for experimental purposes. I don't
 RW> remember what happened to that one, but it worked good on a

I'd have to look that one up, never heard of DDRR B4.

... The trouble with doing nothing is thatYouNeverKnowWhenYou're finished.
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