04-14-14 11:21 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Resurrected   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <534D0C83.313.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> Greetings Ed!   
   Hi Roy!   
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    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   
      
   Part 97????????   Part 15!!!!!!!!!!!!!!       
      
    RW> in having a xmitter if you can't experiment with it? Besides,   
    RW> the mental capabilties of 99% of CBers left me with no interest   
    RW> in talking to them.   
      
    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?   
      
   That's a Long Wire or Dipole isn't it? Or using Open Wire Twin Lead?   
      
    EV> To me the Beta Match looked simpler to adjust so I got one for   
    EV> myself.   
      
    RW> My entire being was interested in building my own antennas,   
    RW> rather than talking about it.   
      
   40 meter Dipole, 20 meterInverted Vee, 80 meter Slinky are the only   
   antennas I've built.   
      
   I also used a Vertical for 80 and 40 and a 2 meter Cross Yagi Beam that   
   I ordered through the mail.   
      
   ... Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?   
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