Bill KA3IXF wrote on Sunday, June 11, 2006 2:00 PM
Not sure if you can apply this to your application, but I designed the
KA3IXF Apartment Antenna, which will be appearing in a upcoming QST Article
within the next couple of months. The >folks at MFJ and B/W are also
looking at it for possible commercial retail application. It is no more
than one or two long cardboard tubes wrapped up in electrical tape. You
then make or buy a >limited space 10 - 40m G5RV and place the feedline in
the middle of the tube and then wrap the ends around the tube, leaving
about a inch or so between each turn. It looks sort of like a slinky
>antenna. Then you again wrap the whole thing in electrical tape. I have it
sitting outside my apartment on the window sill. With my K2/100, I work DX
on a regular basis, on 20m CW. If you >can get up to the top floor and
place this on a window sill this works well with the K2.
Good Luck,
Bill KA3IXF
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Hi Bill,
When camping or during Field Day it should be possible to use two of your
gizmos to make a short boom yagi or phased array. My first 40m beam in VE2
land had 22ft lengths of bamboo on which the normal mode helices were
wound - worked like a charm once tuned.
Good luck with the commercial folk.
73,
Geoff
GM4ESD
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