[OZAPRS] How much power do you use while HF mobile?

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

I ended up at bunnings, and ended up with what I knew worked - welding rods!  Only they had packs of 3.2mm rods on special ($2 a pack!), so I went those, and filed down the lower inch of a rod so it JUST fits into the top of the antenna - no way that sucker is coming out now!  And I have 19 spares that just need similar treatment, and they're there if I need replacements ;)

Cheers,

DG

On 11/06/2011, at 10:17 AM, vk2mpj at internode.on.net wrote:

> Bunnings is also a good idea... some heavy gauge fencing wire, god only knows what u will find in there. 
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> From: "Damien Gardner Jnr" <vk2tdg at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Jun 11, 2011 08:09
> Subject: [OZAPRS] How much power do you use while HF mobile?
> To: "Australian APRS Users" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
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> Ahhh, if only Kmart still sold such things!  I scoured homewares, then autos, then camping - and my three possibilities were a dish drainer from homewares, a bread toaster thingy from camping, or the little fly netting thingy from camping..  If i'd had a heap of spare time, a 4mm tent peg could have been made to work, with a file ;)   But a crocheting hook, awesome!  I'll expand my search criteria a bit while I'm out around nowra this morning :)
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> Cheers,
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> DG
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> On 10/06/2011, at 9:35 PM, Bob - VK5FO wrote:
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>> Years ago, we lost the tuning tip from our Terlin HF antenna.
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>> We went to K-Mart and bought a $2 crocheting hook from the haberdashery section.  It worked for over 10 years like that!
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