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A THREE ELEMENT MONOBANDER FOR 17 10 METERS WITH TWO ELEMENTS ON 20  IN
1966 I WAS A NEWLY LICENSED NOVICE AND WAS ON THE AIR USING A FRIENDS GLOBE
CHIEF TRANSMITTER, A NATIONAL NC 270 RECEIVER AND A HOMEMADE INVERTED V
ATTACHED TO MY HOUSE WITH A BAMBOO POLE.  THE GLOBE SOON GAVE WAY TO A HOME
BREW 6146B TRANSMITTER BUILT FROM SCHEMATICS IN THE 1966 RADIO AMATEURS
HANDBOOK.  BUT QSOS WERE HARD TO COME BY BECAUSE I WAS RUNNING ALL OF 50 W
DURING THE LULL BETWEEN SOLAR CYCLES 19 AND 20.  THEN CAME THE SEPTEMBER
1966 ISSUE OF QST AND AN ARTICLE BY LEW MCCOY, W1ICP, ENTITLED, A TWO
ELEMENT BEAM FOR 15.  IN THAT ARTICLE, LEW SAID, AN AMATEURS FIRST VENTURE
ON 15 AND 10 UNDER OPEN BAND CONDITIONS IS A REVELATION IF THIS IS YOUR
FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH A BEAM ANTENNA YOULL BE IN FOR PLENTY OF SURPRISES
THIS FALL AND WINTER SHOULD BE A REAL HUMDINGER ON 15, SO DONT MISS IT.
LEW WROTE THAT ARTICLE SHORTLY AFTER THE BEGINNING OF SOLAR CYCLE 20, WHICH
PEAKED IN 1969 70 AND WAS ONE OF THE LOWEST PEAKING CYCLES IN RECENT
HISTORY, COMPARABLE UNFORTUNATELY TO CYCLE 23, WHICH WERE PRESENTLY
TRUDGING THROUGH.  I BUILT THAT ANTENNA, AND IT GAVE ME SOME SERIOUS FUN
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118,184 748 79 14 A N3IXR 102,410 665 77 22 A AA3ML 38,628 261 74 13 A AD8J
35,332 242 73 5 A WA3HAE 32,266 221 73 6 A KE3KD 23,296 182 64 9 A N3YEA
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