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Do that, and then build an 11 meter dipole using the usual formula. Mount both antennas at the same height and try A/B comparisons between them. I think you'll find that a dipole made to the usual dimensions will outperform shortened ones by a mile. Or kilometer.

We have a nice hot Thai/Lao place nearby and I stop in to see what's mixing once a week or so. Habaneros lately are dry and not much liquid heat from them...but once in a while a plump habanero gets by and we say we "habanero escape". Merry Chrispmess or whatever is the current well-being...

You shunt do that with a perfectly good meter.

I've used a great many dipoles and inverted vees since being licensed in 1959. I've never built one that required a balun (regardless of what The Book says), and I've never been disappointed in how these antennas perform, whether for local yakking or DXing. Of course, this was back when...

The lower the frequency, the larger the components need to be. If you have a small chassis, things could be interesting.

The term "type accepted" doesn't appear in current FCC terminology. It's now "certificated", meaning FCC has tested this model from this manufacturer and certifies that it's within the limits of frequency accuracy, power output and such. For off-brand radios, good luck.

If you have a heavy rubber mallet, that will shake things up the pole a lot more than a carpenter's hammer. Less impact noise; less attention to the guy who's attacking the poles. (Not "Poles", Mike!) :)

Bleeders normally only see DC; the "wirewound" resistor might measure a bit of inductance but not enough to worry about at RF, let alone 60 Hz.

I've seen several very nice radio installations in someone's den, with ambient light shed by the filament of just such a tube. The particular tube might have some internal problem making it unusable EXCEPT that the filament/heater still lights up. Not MUCH light, but a reminder of earlier days...

I used to listen to KOMO, 1000 Kilocycles, from Las Vegas. Met a YL while my ship was being overhauled in Bremerton a few years later, and after we'd moved to Vegas, she would listen to it and get really homesick. We moved back to Bremerton in spring of 1967 and listened to KOMO for most of...

It sure seemed that way. Only for half a second or so: blink and you'd miss it.

My mom would wake me up from a nice sound sleep with the clock reading somewhere around 3AM and take me out to the living room where our radio was (this was in the early 1950s and no TV in Las Vegas). There was a man's voice counting backwards, and when he reached zero, the sky - even the air...

Hey! I could have been "Pat from So. Nevada"! Lived the first 20 years of my life in Vegas. Original house is still there exactly one block East of Pawn Stars, which was a photography/camera shop when I was a lad!

Exactly. A 50-ohm dummy load will provide low SWR over quite a wide range of frequencies/channels/whatever. Whether anyone will HEAR your signal beyond a city block or so might be problematic.

"Dipole!" That's what Vladimir yelled when he stabbed Stanislavski. ...or so I thought when I first heard that story.

Unless it's a mirror...

I like the green Tabasco sauce. Haven't tried the chipotle yet.

They're at the end of the supply chain. WHICH end, I'm not sure.

14.350 Mc. is a very dated way of saying 14.350 MHz. Frequency was commonly specified in Cycles per Second (CPS) until the 1970s or so, when the term Cycles per Second (CPS) was changed to Hertz (Hz). Megacycles per second (MC) became Megahertz. Frequency was one of the last terms in...

The S-meter on portable/mobile receivers/transceivers is a prime candidate for use as a FS meter.