I bought a plastic housing unit at Home Depot for $5 and I was able to
get about 70 feet of #26 on it. I actually could have gotten more but it
foulde up some so I went back to 70 feet and had no more reel fouling
... works slick!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Nickels [mailto:ranickel@...]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 23:16 PM
To: FT817@...
Subject: [FT817] Chalktenna
I was intrigued with W3VET's idea of making a roll-up antenna out of a
chalkline. So when I spotted them on sale for $2.99 at the
local hardwarestore I just had to give it a try. Here's the result:
I used some 20 ga. teflon-coated wire that was tangled up in
the junkbox, and got at least 50' on the reel.
