[WARC] regarding sunspot number

[Dick Lindner]

Clare has a good idea, but I have another...  

What you should really do is this:

1.  Go buy a couple rolls of 100 ft hookup wire.  Black is good, but red 
is nice if you are trying to convince the xyl that you are actually 
doing the Christmas decorations early rather than putting up "another 
antenna".
2.  Get out your soldering iron and solder and connect all of the screen 
windows in your house.   (You can also connect the ones standing in your 
garage to those on the house.
3.  Connect the final end to the Johnson Matchbox that you should have 
bought last time one came up on ebay
4.  Fire up a radio.  Set it to 28.5.
5.  Call CQ.  (use either cw or voice-it makes no difference)

optional
6.  Because most houses have four basic directions, and because the 
screen windows on the house are vertically oriented, with some 
additional wire and additional soldering it is possible to construct 
phased verticals.  (the dimensions of most houses approximate the ideal 
separation of the vertical elements).  In actuality, even more 
directional gain and front-to-back can be obtained by using the screens 
inside the garage as a third element.  (They might need to be turned 90 
degrees for maximum effect)

Dick