"Harbin Osteen" wrote in
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controversial Crossed Field Theory

Oh, ok...Is it made out of lawn furniture like the Gap antennas that
suck?...(c;

We have a ham in town who is a car mechanic. Someone convinced him if
you put this capacitor in series with his 160M long wire it would make a
super antenna. The poor sap bought it, hook, line and sinker and has
built many versions, to my amusement.

I added a second Texas Bugcatcher center loading coil to my 15' mobile
monster with the 4' across capacitor hat on the trailer hitch of my old
Mercedes 220D, the finest HF mobile car ever built....no electronics
noise. It was about 10PM and I was on 160M around 1850 Khz when I heard
this guy talking to some of his buddies over in MS and New Orleans. I
fired up the modified 650W output Tentec Hercules II and said hello.

One of his buddies, or maybe former buddies now, said, "Bob! That mobile
in Charleston is 20 dB LOUDER than you are!" Bob never made another
transmission....(c;

I love to play with antennas. I always have....

Larry
--
Roll up to the long checkout line....
Yell, "ICE RAID!"
It's your turn to load the grocery belt...(c;