Had a grain silo place where we had some equipment complain about "our" antennas laying in the corner of the roof. Well, not our antennas, they were left over paging customers. But, we decided to clean the roof up. How do you get down a 20 foot antenna in a 10 foot elevator? I cut them apart with a Milwaukee battery operated saws-all. Kinda fun.
If you ever have a very high frequency (this one was listed at 158 MHz,) SWR was really laughable in the 2 meter band, cut it open . The construction is fun to look at. It's like 1'2" to 3/4" rigid line, with the inner and outer conductors flipped from time to time.
Matter of fact, here's a challenge. Anyone have a non-useful Station Master or equivalent? Bring it to Dayton, and we will cut it apart and it can be a Scom "Show-n-Tell" Telling you, kinda cool to look at.
Tom K8TB
