04-19-14 12:15 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Resurrected   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <5352F43B.331.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    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.   
   -snip-   
    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.   
   -snip-   
    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>     Have a day!                  o            o--+--o   
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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.   
      
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