Happy 250th Birthday to the US Marine Corps. Semper Fi! Having served with the Marines as a part of RLT4 in May of 1965 at Chu Lai, they have my greatest respect and admiration.
Yes, I did take post graduate course work in Marketing and most definitely that often colors what I see. In the last two weeks the highest viewed posting remains the one with BB on the beach.
Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian marketing guru of the 1970's proclaimed "the medium is the message" as evidenced by TikTok. What is clear based on tests I have run on the blog... Hot looking women assures blog readership. The Medium is the Message, looking at a photo of BB suggests some hot info on ham radio stuff.
Thus, our subject for today will not get a lot of views. POTA Antennas, now that has a nice ring to it. As usual something turned up on my smart phone about Wolf River Coils
In a limited look see, one thing caught my eye was a really light weight 217-inch telescoping antenna, (about 18 feet) which means by itself it is a full quarter wavelength on 20 Meters. This means it can be used direct on 20 Meters and above without the base loading coil.
The costs don't seem exorbitant, and I was thinking of N2CQR who operates several times a year from HI7 land. A pair could give him a phased array vertical beam at 70 feet in the air. Four of them have the makings of a horizontal 2 element 20M beam antenna. Kind of cool.
My heart goes out to those who will potentially lose their SNAP benefits not because they did anything wrong but because of a few vindictive individuals.
In case you might be wondering about Tariff's and their economic impact. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 enacted by POTUS 31, according to Copilot AI actually made the Great Depression worse! Read the rationale for the act some 95 years ago and what do you see. The medium is the message!
Them that know can make it go.
73's
Pete N6QW