Spud Gun, goats and antennas by WG0AT at the Colorado QRP Club

Steve Galchutt brought this version of the "spud gun" (Pneumatic Launcher) to our Colorado QRP Club meeting. It was built for him by his friend John Evans (N0HJ) as described in the March '09 issue of the American Radio Relay League's QST publication. Amateur radio operators use all kinds of devices to launch antennas over trees and other obsticles.

At http://www.youtube.com/user/w0cqc we have more videos of Steve, his goats, and antennas!

Here's my personal web page about antennas:
http://www.rogerwendell.com/antennas.html

Here's the American Radio Relay League:
http://www.arrl.org

Here's the Colorado QRP Club's page about WG0AT:
http://www.cqc.org/gallery/meet0309/index.htm

Here's Steve's "Goat Hiker" YouTube site:
http://www.youtube.com/goathiker

03-14-2009

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• spudgun
• spud
• gun
• antenna
• launch
• denver
• colorado
• neumatic
• launcher
• goats

[zeekzilch]

Thank you!

[illinoispatriot1776]

Nice compact design! Goats?

[tkdteen2]

I think the fetch his 817nd and morse code keyer first

[tkdteen2]

nice one

[va7dgp]

We could have used that last week. We had a 300 M VEE shaped dipole. A younger ham climbed two trees to get the rope up so I could haul on ends to get above human height.

I heard east coast station on 80 m however our 100 Watts just couldn't punch through.

Don VA7DGP

[alligetisspammail]

(** sniff ** Smells like a WG0AT antenna. )

Now if you can get Rooster and Peanut to fetch your demo launches I'd be impressed.

[Ronbob59]

I always wanted to see one of those. Pretty cool. I'm sending this to the HQRP club in Houston...

Ron and W&W