MFJ Enterprises to close their manufacturing facility in Mississippi
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*25th April 2024:* MFJ Enterprises manufacture a wide range of products for
the amateur radio market and their most recent catalogue comes to some
90-pag...
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Bummer! It's 88 degrees out here in the desert. I'm headed back out to the hammock and take a nap...
ReplyDeleteIn my college dorm room, the previous resident, also a ham, had run a long wire antenna down from the roof of the 20 story building next door. Yes, that was an epic antenna. One morning I awoke to a faint random clicking sound. The antenna lead was hanging free and brushing up near the steam radiator. I could draw a good 1/4 inch arc off that wire.
ReplyDeleteSadly an ice storm took it down in February. But the next year the campus station, W1MX, put their own more substantial long wire in place.
More research fellow amateurs - we could solve the the worlds energy problems here!
ReplyDeleteYikes! Well that would certainly put the screws to your MPF102s. Shocking, indeed.
ReplyDelete73 from the land of Santana Wind static.......Steve Smith WB6TNL
"Snort Rosin"
I know a guy here in UK who flys kites to carry antennas to 200ft up. He uses a high value (1M) resistor across his ATU to bleed static to ground. Perhaps we should all fit these in snow conditions!
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