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When I was first married and was living in an apartment I had a pair of phased 1/4 wave verticles for 10m in my shack. Yes I said IN my shack, on in each corner on either side of my desk. The place had nine foot ceilings and the antennas just fit with 1/4 wave spacing. I taped a regular NE-2 neon bulb to one of the elements just for shits and grins. My father asked me what it was there for and I told him it was an RF monitor. He did not believe me until I told him to hold the antenna while I keyed up with a mere 100 watts. The bulb and my father both lit up. :laugh:
 
That is like - sooo 80's . . .
lol!

I love the 80s.





When I was first married and was living in an apartment I had a pair of phased 1/4 wave verticles for 10m in my shack. Yes I said IN my shack, on in each corner on either side of my desk. The place had nine foot ceilings and the antennas just fit with 1/4 wave spacing. I taped a regular NE-2 neon bulb to one of the elements just for shits and grins. My father asked me what it was there for and I told him it was an RF monitor. He did not believe me until I told him to hold the antenna while I keyed up with a mere 100 watts. The bulb and my father both lit up. :laugh:

Ahahaha that sounds like a priceless moment ! Fun
Will a ne-2 work on vhf ?
 
Was just looking through my light bulb hoarding box I have 10-20 of those neon bulbs haha sweet ! Im turning my antenna into a christmas tree !
 


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  • @ Geoexplorer69:
    Coax question. I just put up a new Sirio monsoon base antenna with 100’ of rg8u coax testing with myMFJ antenna analyzer shows 1.4 swr at 26.965mhz and a 1.1 at 27.405 mhz . When I checked the ohms it’s steady a 30 ohms across the entire bandwidth.
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    Is 30 ohms worth worrying about in a 100’ run of rg8u ?


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