Greetings Ed!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
None of the above. Part 97 was a typo on my part. Part 95, Subpart
D covers the Citizens Band (CB) Radio Service. The present rules state
that one can use a previously issued license to operate on CB channels
although no license is required. That must mean that they keep records
going as far back as 1959, so I could use my 18W call or my favorite call,
KPD 2428...YMMV. I was issued a 4x4 call in California, but I hated it, so
kept on using my KPD call after it had been replaced with the 4x4 call of
K+3letters x 4 numbers.
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?
EV> That's a Long Wire or Dipole isn't it? Or using Open Wire Twin Lead?
No, most sixers use verttical antennas, so a ground plane will do...the
business or commercial radio service uses vertical antennas too.
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.
EV> 40 meter Dipole, 20 meterInverted Vee, 80 meter Slinky are the only
EV> antennas I've built.
I've had a use for 40 inverted V many years ago. It was also my 80m
antenna with coils to make it electrically longer. In any case, it was
center fed and there was a center feed piece that was manufactured by some
antenna guru back then that allowed a 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.
When I lived in Seattle, c1966, I used a 3 element Mosely (sp) beam,
standing vertical, during the CB days. The high winds across Pugit Sound
caused that antenna to rise up and be slammed into the roof several times
in the 10 months I lived there. One fine winter day, it was facing west
and the support tube was bent just enough to make talking east to Illinois
a daily event. I don't know what 'Blue Eyes' looked like, but she worked
with my mother and Blue Eyes invited her to talk on the radio. 8^)
I don't suppose that you've ever heard of a Gizmochie antenna...it was a
vertical/horizontal yagi that when viewed from the end, looked like the
Empire's Star Fighter. See illustration below. It required two sections of
feedline from the shack to the gamma matches on the verticle and the
horizontal (actually at 120 degrees from verticle) elements. I built one
four element beam and a buddy of mine copied it, but stacked two of them
together with one of the horizontal elements missing so that they'd fit on
the cross boom he made for it. Thus!
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We also built a DDRR antenna for experimental purposes. I don't remember
what happened to that one, but it worked good on a mobile station and I've
made several for the VHF/UHF service. I intend to get around to building
another for use on 10mtr, as it is a verticle. I have the materials, just
need to get-around-toit...
R\%/itt - K5RXT
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