https://www.ebay.com/itm/HYGAIN-SPT...128589?hash=item1a07ed18cd:g:oPcAAOSwJcZWdDil
Why does this ebay listing say,
This antenna is illegal for 11 Meters use.
Why does this ebay listing say,
This antenna is illegal for 11 Meters use.
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SPT-500
- Thread starter r carl
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Looks like a real winner to me.
Thing about aluminum antennas are that if one puts one up, and it should fall across power lines and you get electrocuted and die, then you were a stupid CBer that didn't know the danger.
But if you are an enlightened amateur radio operator and get electrocuted, it must have been an unforeseen accident.
lulz . . .
Just be aware that if the antenna should fall over for any reason whatsoever, that it will not be in a place that can fall on power lines. People still get killed from that. If it should happen to fall across power lines DO NOT TRY TO REMOVE IT OR EVEN TOUCH IT. Call your local power company and they will come out and deal with it.
Thing about aluminum antennas are that if one puts one up, and it should fall across power lines and you get electrocuted and die, then you were a stupid CBer that didn't know the danger.
But if you are an enlightened amateur radio operator and get electrocuted, it must have been an unforeseen accident.
lulz . . .
Just be aware that if the antenna should fall over for any reason whatsoever, that it will not be in a place that can fall on power lines. People still get killed from that. If it should happen to fall across power lines DO NOT TRY TO REMOVE IT OR EVEN TOUCH IT. Call your local power company and they will come out and deal with it.
I would think you should not install an antenna in a place that if it would fall over it would land on a power line. I wouldn't.
Yeah; you'd think . . .
But . . . people still get killed with antenna accidents . . .
all ya need to know,,,, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2015-title16-vol2/pdf/CFR-2015-title16-vol2-part1204.pdf
MFJs site listing of the SPT 500 as "Illegal to Use On 11 Meter"....From what I have read there are more hams electrocuted by antennas falling into power lines
The Consumer Protection agency data does not support your statement.
Here are 8 more CBers killed.....
https://cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/1978/Eight-Killed-In-CB-Antenna-Accidents
"The Commission confirms that at least 123 electrocutions were associated with communications antennas in 1976. This information is derived from death certificates submitted to the Commission from each of the 50 states. About one-half of these deaths were known to involve CB antennas, 15 percent were television antennas and the remaining 35 percent were outside communications antennas of unspecified type..."
His statement was present tense.
Yours quotes data going on a half-century in age.
The two didn’t meet.
Last I read it comes to all-metal as divisor.
CB’ers get Fiberglas.
(that’ll stir the pot some more)
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Yours quotes data going on a half-century in age.
The two didn’t meet.
Last I read it comes to all-metal as divisor.
CB’ers get Fiberglas.
(that’ll stir the pot some more)
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I would bet a helluva lot more radio guys (cb/ham/commercial) die from falls than electrocution.
I thought it was from doing shots with every QSO.
“Silent key”, meant no more orders from the hotel bar to that room register.
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“Silent key”, meant no more orders from the hotel bar to that room register.
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