survey says

     A couple posts ago I tacked a short survey onto the end, asking what the strangest thing you.ve ever used as an antenna was.  For me, it's my downspout/gutter inverted L that I wrote about previously.  Some of you really had some doozies though!  Before I get to those, here's the survey results:

1. Other 65% (I guess it doesn't surprise me to see this as the top choice - the strangest antenna's are things you wouldn't think to put on a survey form!)
2. Flagpole 24%
3. Rain gutters 12%

     So, ignoring the fact that these numbers add up to more than 100% (thank you rounding errors!) here are some of the more interesting "Other" antenna's that popped up in this informal survey.  Thanks to those that shared them!

• "In grad school I lived in a "garden level" (half underground) apartment.  After some experimenting, I attached a couple of clamps to the copper pipes that ran up to the air conditioner condenser unit on the roof.  Fed it with copper wire, tuned it as best I could and worked (the former) Yugoslavia with my 5 watt Argonaut."
• "Went to Saipan during Easter week 1968 after a devastating typhoon.  Loaded a chain link fence at Kobler Airfield on 75 meters with a Swan 500C.  Got comms back to Guam, used it for several days until TTPI got their links back in operation.  Navy gave me a commendation."
• "Two hacksaw blades used on 2 meters"
• "Disused cable TV network, the whole length of the street. Tuned up a treat on top band."
• Fences - both barbed wire and disconnected electric came up
• "Car body"
• "A long wire mounted on a building to shock birds away. It had been disconnected but they left the wire intact."
• "Round aluminum sled"
• "Metal bunk bed in a Navy barracks."
• "bed springs"

So, after reading some of these, my rain gutters don't sound so unusual after all......

73!