The Chalkline Antenna is gone
The Chalkline Antenna is gone. If you have read my previous post, Playing with Tuners and Longwires - https://zl3cc.blogspot.com/2024/09/playing-with-tuners-and-longwires-i-am.html and you have considered building one of these Chalkline Antenna’s, I can only offer two words of advice……JUST DON’T. Mine is is gone from my Go-Bag, in a box in a tangled mess, just waiting for a rainy day when I have the time and patience to untangle the wire for use in another project Why the sudden change in heart you might ask and I shall tell you. Last Saturday I went out to my favourite country road site to set up for the Go-QRP evening. I had taken the Chalkline Antenna with me intending to use it as, apart from a longer and heavier doublet, it was the only portable antenna that I had in my inventory that could work the 80 metre band. I had the antenna out earlier in the afternoon and ensured that the marks for the 80 metre band were still on the wire and easily distinguishable in the dark and I...