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  • Re: Learn, Amateurs Learn!

    From Randall Schad@1:226/44 to jimmy anderson on Fri Dec 12 18:40:28 2025
    On 19 Nov 2025, jimmy anderson said the following...

    I did tech with the intention of doing general for HF later, but went ahead and did both the same day. My wife did tech only because her interest is not 'talking' but doing weather. She likes to chase storms,
    or at least used to... Lots of stormy water under the bridge - medical issues now, with us and her mom, etc.

    This is almost exactly the situation with my wife. She love the weather/storm chasing aspect. (She's a huge Ryan Hall of Youtube fame fan as well.) She's had the study guides for nearly a year now. Refuses to let me help her learn. (She's an independent Millennial woman. Yeah, I robbed the cradle. LOL)

    She did build a 3-element 2-meter Yagi out of tape measure and PVC for our Halloween fox hunt, though. Fantastic job of it. 1.04:1 SWR on the meter.

    I found a template for a loading coil that I intend to print this
    weekend. Wrap the coil around that template, wind up another
    transformer, and hopefully have a vertical very similar to that Comet
    to keep in the truck for mobile HF.

    Interesting!!! Let us know how that goes!

    Maaaaan, I need to get more routine about my BBS rounds. I'm sorry it's been nearly a month. ADHD or SADD or WTH or something.

    I never did get around to printing that thing. I thought I didn't have the wire for the winding, but then while cleaning last night I found it. Someone needs to keep kicking me in the butt to stay on task. :)

    73, my friend!
    RS - WZ8Q

    ... Avoid arguments about the toilet seat... Use the sink.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: The Arena BBS ú netasylum.com:2323 (1:226/44)
  • From Randall Schad@1:226/44 to jimmy anderson on Fri Dec 12 18:44:22 2025
    On 19 Nov 2025, jimmy anderson said the following...

    I don't know of any HAM projects I could use it for...

    Any ideas? :-)

    Oh, man... All the amazing enclosure panels that could be cut for my half-assed projects! :)

    73!
    WZ8Q

    ... People say I act like I don't care. It's not an act.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: The Arena BBS ú netasylum.com:2323 (1:226/44)