Simple Ham Radio Antennas: The Ghost of Antennas Past. Post #267
Humans tend to collect things. Amateur radio operators are no exception. In my 37 years as a licensed amateur radio operator, I've collected enough electronics-related material to fill most of my garage/radio shack at my new home in the Puna District . Fortunately, I've managed to keep things organized, more or less, with plastic storage bins and some old filing cabinets. During the ongoing moving process, I discovered antennas, books, logs, and parts once given up for lost. Such was the case Monday, 17 March 2014, when I reorganizing some of the material brought to the new QTH. I found several well-sealed boxes containing some of my successful antenna projects. All the antennas were dipoles built during my over three decades of "warming the ether" with a variety of old tube rigs long since gone to to the great capacitor in the sky. After I finished using these antennas, I had the foresight to clean and store them for future use. Also a...