Someone replied to me off-list (thinking I was the person who wanted information on the helix antennas after my Red Green style "duct tape" comment) with a commercial offer for his helix antennas.
Fairly unimpressive, since whoever it was both picked the wrong person to reply to, and is also using the list to troll for "customers".
Not going to bother to say who it was -- but I'm not impressed. I just deleted it to save myself from replying and saying something obnoxious to the person directly.
Good response, Nate.....99.9% of us resent these dorks that use any portion of ham radio for their profit!!
Innovations, and helpful tips should be a part of our hobby. If one has something commercially viable, go ahead and advertise commercially, patent it, or whatever, but not on here...
And I'm going to tell you a story that happened to me ~1965...I was stationed at the Naval Air Station, St. Simons Is. GA, and discovered plans for a cubical quad...I think it was devised at some high altitude in South America to keep corona from burning the ends of other designs....
There were adequate plans available, probably got mine from some ARRL pub, and it was for 10,15 and 20 meters.... The spacing was a compromise for the three bands, so I got two four blade car fans, bent them, put them on either end of the boom, and got near the ideal reflector spacing for all three bands...It worked very well, and needed no matching of any kind.
Just about every time I got on the air, this ham in Chicago, would join us, and kept asking details about the antenna, so, of course, I gave him all the info he requested... I was very pleased that he was that impressed, so I was happy he was interested..
I got transferred to the Naval Air Station Alameda, CA, and about two or three months after I got there I saw an ad in QST for aluminum cast spiders with the identical angles that I had bent my 4 blade car fans!!!! Advertised by the same ham I had talked to in GA!!
So, worth anything or not, all the junk I devise goes on my website...Not to lay claim or anything of the sort...
I hope the guy in Chicago was successful, but if he was, I never heard anything about it!
At least two of us won't promote these jerks!!
73, Dave wb6llo@amsat.org Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...