05-12-14 13:08 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Antennas by Roy   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <537146BB.416.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> Greetings Ed!   
      
    RW> Here's something that may interest you.   
      
   Howdy! Roy,   
      
   Thanks for the URLs.   
      
    RW> http://tinyurl.com/lu7zvsr   
      
   So a Quagi looks like it has two square reflector sections instead of   
   reflector elements?   
   I would guess that them being of a larger size helps the Front to Back   
   Ratio?   
      
   As I was typing near the end of this message I remembered a SQUALO   
   Antenna, if I spelled it right, and just had to write about it.   
   I think it was a Square Halo antenna way back in the 1960's for 6M and   
   maybe 2M. It's been a L O N G time since I've thought about those.   
      
    RW> and   
      
    RW> http://tinyurl.com/km56byy   
      
   It has been a long time since I seen a Gizmotchee Antenna.   
   The ones I saw IIRC only had two sections, Yours has four.   
      
   Remember I never heard them called by that name until You mentioned   
   it some time ago.   
      
    RW> and   
      
    RW> http://tinyurl.com/kpoaj8o   
      
   I couldn't tell much about the Horn Antenna from the photo.   
   What freq is it cut for?, 1296Mc/s?   
      
   The file is called HORN2ANT.GIF, is it for 2 Meters instead of 1296?   
   I think I saw Rods on the sides of the Horn Antenna, is that right?   
      
   You sure have many interesting Antennas, I feel like a Novice compared   
   to You when it comes to talking about Antennas, as I've Made very few   
   antennas, and they were of the common type.   
      
   But Ham Radio does have so many interesting things about it!   
      
   Some folks excel at lots of different parts of it that we are entitled   
   to experiment with during our License Term.   
   And when they write about it, the whole Ham Community learns too.   
      
   I saw The Note about the addition You will make to the echo Rules.   
   I don't feel anything I Write or Read here would be considered   
   plagiarism, No One is stealing someone elses stuff by referring to what   
   they've read about, and sharing those thoughts in a BBS echo, and not   
   giving a Reference where the material they are talking about originated   
   from.   
      
   There are thoughts I remember sometimes of things I experienced many   
   many years ago and probably are of no use to most people, but once in a   
   while those memories come back to me and I even may mention them to   
   someone.   
      
   While writing the above paragraph I remembered a man I knew in Alameda,   
   California who was a Ham in his younger days, who told me he welded two   
   Dimes on his Telegraph Key to use with his Spark Transmitter, because   
   he kept burning out the contact on the Keys he used.   
   When he told me this he wasn't licensed anymore but told me about it   
   after learning I was a Ham.   
      
   Sure, that information isn't of much interest today, unless Amateur   
   Radio History is of interest to someone.   
      
   I haven't transmitted a signal in years but even though fooling around   
   with computer stuff is more interesting to me, I still enjoy reading   
   about what is happening in Amateur Radio.   
      
   ... "How to Budget Your Money"  by  I.R.S.   
   --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49   
   --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux   
    * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1)