[a/s] New Airstreamer

[Joey Fields <coffeefields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Airstreamers,
I am a new Airstreamer ('84 sovereign 27ft) and I think that the coaches are
out of this world.
They are related more to a train or plane than a trailer (house).  I am 
facinated by the thoughful design (inside and out) and the unique construction
of the shell.  Everyone, that finds out that I have an Airstream says "I have
always wanted an Airstream. They are the 'Cadillacs of the travel trailers." 
They always get glassy-eyed and sigh.  My neighbors all want to look inside
the Airstream.  Some say - "It doesn't look like a trailer inside, it looks
like an airplane or something.  The interior doesn't have that cheesy trailer
look."  

I waited a long time to get an Airstream.  Every time one came up in the
paper, it would be sold within a couple of hours or at the most - a day.  I
bought mine from an older gentleman and his wife who lived in it for two years
on the road and bought in new in '84.  It was the 3rd Airstream they had.  My
Airstream has a couch in the front cabin with the galley next, then the twin
beds in the middle and at the back is the bathroom.  The bathroom is quite
roomy and it has a tub that I can actually take a bath in.  I think the
lay-out and placement of all the interior components are very well designed. 
I especially like the pleated curtains that slide along the rails and the
front, wrap-around windows. Everybody says that it looks "classy" inside. I
have looked inside other conventional trailers and they do not come close to
the quality in design and construction that the Airstream does. 
Who thought of these trailers?  Did they come from outer-space.  I do not
think in these times of generic design and homogenization that a unique craft
such as the Airstream would ever come to be.  I went to an Airstream dealer in
Californina and they had the elusive Airstream "classic" motorhome.  What a
wonderful ship that was.  The interior was amazing.  It was all wood inside
with the wrap-around windows in the back
bedroom.  A flying bullet. Why doesn't Airstream make those anymore or do
they?  They are much better than those moving "trailer boxes" that everyone
seems to design these days.  People say that Airstreams are a work of art, and
are even in the Smithsonian Institution.

One question I have is how do you get the plug-in conection for the antenna
box.  The box has a DC plug for power and two small holes on the bottom for
the flat two-wire antenna wire.  HOw do you connect or plug the anntena wire
in?  What sort of device is used and where can it be found?

-Chow, Joey Fields (New Mexico)