Aerial Hassles and Planning Permission

摘要

I have always had problems with aerials. When I first gained my licence in 1988, I was living with my parents. Persuading them to let me put external aerials on the house was hard going, but after I had shown my dedication by studying for the RAE and then getting the licence, they relented, and a scaffold pole was mounted on T & K brackets on the back of the house. This carried a Ringo Ranger aerial which I used for local 'nattering' on 2m. The DX bug caught and the vertical was joined by a 10-element beam and rotator. The scaffold pole eventually got higher and higher in the brackets until the inevitable happened. One particularly windy day I returned from work to find my aerials in the garden, my radio jammed hard against the window frame by the taught coax line and a large pile of rubble on the patio. I learned an important lesson the hard way.