[WARC] regarding sunspot number

[Schumacher, Paul]

only one of each, but I have steel siding on my house, does that count?

Paul
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From: warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org [warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org] On Behalf Of Dick Lindner [lindner1 at hbci.com]
Sent: 13 October 2008 11:12
To: Winona Amateur Radio Club general discussion
Subject: Re: [WARC] regarding sunspot number

Paul,

Do you have a waffle iron and a couple toasters?

Dick

Schumacher, Paul wrote:
> Dick,
>
> The screens on my house are fiberglass and are not taking solder.  What should I do?
>
> Paul K0ZYV
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org [mailto:warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org] On Behalf Of Dick Lindner
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:06 AM
> To: Winona Amateur Radio Club general discussion
> Subject: [WARC] regarding sunspot number
>
> 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
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