Marc,I will be presenting a session surrounding this topic at the HAMFest in
March. Feel free to come listen to my 50 years of HOA Stealth antenna
experiences. Some of the principles are the same for RV antennas.
You can expand from there with all the many mentors in this email reflector.73.
:-) Terry
Terry Leatherland, K5PGF281-455-8090Sugar Land, Tx
On Monday, January 30, 2023 at 09:53:53 AM CST, M Reiter via BVARC
<bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
I am a total noob. (new guy for the older folks).I ordered an icom 7300 and
want to do all the things i can with it but mostly ARES, and POTA. so of
course I am thinking about antennas, I really like building antennas, however
the one I built for 146MHz receives crystal clear but does not transmit as far
as I can see. I do not have a bunch of money to spend on professional
antennas so i would like to make usable ones on the first try.
I have materials like steel tubing, aluminum tubing, pvc, wire rope shackles,
pullies, and lots of 18ga wire. a welder, knot skills, I am thinking putting
two steel 20' tubes up with guy wires would be easy enough, maybe even could
get them as high as 30ft, and this is great for 10m 20m, but when I start to
think of 40m and needing a 65ft dipole, 65ft in the air, I feel defeated. are
these "rules" really just best possible requirements and putting a 65ft dipole
at 30ft will be fine forPOTA, and maybe even some DX on the right days or
nights? I am intending to build out my "shack" in an RV because I have some
Gypsy blood somewhere way back. otherwise I would just build two 70ft towers in
my back yard. I will assume that 80m is not really a mobile band, and I would
only attempt it if I was really bored and living in the desert. I did order
an antenna from a website that builds ground radial vertical antennas, for
10-80m, I assume this will work in the USA. and maybe an occasional DX on the
perfect days, Obviously I have been reading too many internet sites and my
information may be very flawed so I am asking yall as I know you know the truth.
what is the absolute minimum I need to run some 10,20,40M dipoles in a park.
how high? do I need an analyser? good swr meter? some proper 1:1 baluns?
dummy load? other?
I know I should have gone to the field meet.
Marc KI5ZHO heightsbeachcat...@gmail.com, for PM.
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