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Thanks Marconi. I am trying to put to good use all of the things I have been learning here.

Back around 1980 when I was a kid, my best friend and I got plans from something like CB Magazine for a home made PDL2 and decided to give it a go. We could not afford aluminum tubing so we spent hours wandering through my friend's 100 acres of woodland looking for just the right trees or branches for the 18 foot long elements and finally found four each. We bought some coax and wire and a few little squares of plastic on which to mount the feedpoint. We then got them up about 20 feet in the air, tuned them a bit and much to our amazement they actually worked! Not bad for maybe $15 each. My life now sure would be simpler if my brain would let me do the old-style builds again.

[QUOTE="TimmyTheTorch, post: 819627, member: 64271"] Thanks Marconi. I am trying to put to good use all of the things I have been learning here. Back around 1980 when I was a kid, my best friend and I got plans from something like CB Magazine for a home made PDL2 and decided to give it a go. We could not afford aluminum tubing so we spent hours wandering through my friend's 100 acres of woodland looking for just the right trees or branches for the 18 foot long elements and finally found four each. We bought some coax and wire and a few little squares of plastic on which to mount the feedpoint. We then got them up about 20 feet in the air, tuned them a bit and much to our amazement they actually worked! Not bad for maybe $15 each. My life now sure would be simpler if my brain would let me do the old-style builds again. [/QUOTE]

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