“I Think That Would Really Look Strange on a Piece Of Wood…”
Feb 01, 2022
1 minute
BY GORDON DAVIS, SR.,** NWØY (AS TOLD TO RICH MOSESON, W2VU)
hen I was first licensed in 1984, I had already built an HW8 magazine and said “I think that would really look strange on a piece of wood.” So I built one on 3/4-inch thick plywood using nails as solder connect points and a 9-volt transistor radio battery for power. My coax was spliced in three places so it could reach my wobbly 18 AVT vertical antenna in the backyard. I was using a TS 520S as a receiver, and when I tuned in my signal, I thought it was amazing that it actually worked.
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