This is so mischievous on my part, but I put that provocative title just to stir it up all over again.
The vertical wire I’m talking about is 50 or 60 feet in the air, grounded to the earth.
This is so mischievous on my part, but I put that provocative title just to stir it up all over again.
The vertical wire I’m talking about is 50 or 60 feet in the air, grounded to the earth.
Do they take complaints on Sunday?
New Zealand sounds good.
blank stare at Carl
blank stare at Carl
Party Ballons
Hanging a long wire vertically is easy with a helium filled balloon tethered with fishing line.
Did this a long time ago using a wicker basket and 4 helium filled party balloons. In the basket was a Panaxis FM 2-20mW transmitter feeding 2 short telescoping whips for the upper and lower element..ie dipole.
RFB
I Sent a Part 15 Transmitter Up On A Kite
CRASH!!!!!!!!
a) True Story
2) Some of you may have heard about his before
c) It crashed in a swamp next to the local golf course
4) What A Waste, It was a really good transmitter
Bruce, W 60 HZ, X-13
Backup
Hey Bruce!
Perhaps an emergency mini-parachute made from a hankie might have saved it? 😉
RFB
Strange Device Crashes in Swamp
Men in hazmat suits sealed off a golf coarse …… or, a golf course….
Men in hazmat suits sealed off a large grassy area following the crash of a kite-like UFO.
Attempts to learn more through the Freedom of Information Act have been frustrated by the claim that “No such event is known to have taken place and golfers at the scene have no memory of being at the scene”.
Oh yeah, the other thing was
All I could hear was the wind hitting the kite
through the radio on the ground.
The transmitter was a Radio Shack FM-90,
a handheld mike (although it was shaped
more like 2 or 3 bricks from end of end)
which was tuned with a tuning stick and
it went from 88 to 92 MHz. It also had
an aux input jack, and of course was
mono. Fidelity was very very good and
it was very stable. It had a black wire
antenna that came out the back end.
After the crash –
I cleaned off all of the mud and dirt. It
still worked, but it was not stable anymore, it
was at a different part of the FM band,
and it sounded like garbage.
Not too long ago, somebody on this board
found a picture of one of these, along with
the box it came in.
It would have been about 1971 or 72, when it
was made.
By the way, you guys made me laugh too
much. My whole body hurts now.
I love to laugh, but not this hard.
Ow.
Bruce, W 60 HZ, X-13
I had a Radio Shack FM 90 !!
Got almost a mile line-of-sight with that thing — was supposed to be Part 15 compliant. And that was just by having the unit hanging out a window with the wire antenna that it came with hanging below.
Sounded great too. I heard they were recalled for having too much power — or maybe the rules were changed since then.
Wish I still had it!