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The President of the club was so dumb, last year when I told him that the SWR on the 20 meter antenna was 3:1, his reply was that this year it checked out OK.
When I dropped the dipole I happened to notice that there was no insulators on the ends of the dipole. Just pieces of clothes line rope tied to the wire. Last year, with all the rain we had, it was no wonder - why it damaged the finals in my transceiver.

Not to mention the Harbor Freight and Salvage generator they bought that shorted out my commercial 85 amp power supply, my Kenwood TS 590 and my HP Pavilion tower computer..
Never again will I ever operate my equipment on someone else's antenna.. Or trust that their equipment is good or intact.

What a bunch of morons!

[QUOTE="Soup-man, post: 555694, member: 47632"] The President of the club was so dumb, last year when I told him that the SWR on the 20 meter antenna was 3:1, his reply was that this year it checked out OK. When I dropped the dipole I happened to notice that there was no insulators on the ends of the dipole. Just pieces of clothes line rope tied to the wire. Last year, with all the rain we had, it was no wonder - why it damaged the finals in my transceiver. Not to mention the Harbor Freight and Salvage generator they bought that shorted out my commercial 85 amp power supply, my Kenwood TS 590 and my HP Pavilion tower computer.. Never again will I ever operate my equipment on someone else's antenna.. Or trust that their equipment is good or intact. What a bunch of morons! [/QUOTE]

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