Amateur Radio on Hawaii-the Big Island
Over the past few days, I've been reviewing some of my old antenna notes. Like the late Lew McCoy, I keep most of my ideas in an antenna notebook for future reference. Any notebook will do, as long as you keep yourself organized and have sufficient room for drawings, meter readings, and other perameters. Although there are many good, inexpensive antenna design programs, I prefer the old style of jotting down thoughts in a notebook. I'm not a technophobe, but after immersing myself in the latest digital, whizz-bang equipment and programs at the radio station, I just feel the need to retreat to a simpler time as far as amateur radio is concerned. Anyway, I've accumulated 20 or more student composition notebooks full of radio ideas, failed experiments, and occasional successes. Some of my early antenna designs were quite pathetic, but that's how one learns. While I was going through a notebook dated October 1976, I came across a very simple 40-meter antenna that ha