I'd like to thank everyone who replied. Here is what I just finished building and installing:
I only had 17' feet of ladder line, not the 30' I thought I had so this antenna is probably extremely far from ideal. The overall antenna is roughly 102' long in an inverted vee configuration. The ends are only 8' to 10' off the ground with the center probably around 35' judging by the feedlines I ended up having to use. It is fed in the center with the 17' of ladder line connected to some type of balun I found in the junk box (I think it came with a G5RV kit many moons ago). I then had to use a 20' piece of RG8X to extend it to meet the 75' of RG8U TRIAX into the shack. Here are what the numbers from my MFJ analyzer reads. If someone could translate all this for me into how this antenna will work at QRP levels with my K1 and KAT1, I'd sure appreciate it. 1.810 MHz SWR=7.0 R=6 X=37 3.560 MHz SWR=8.1 R=5 X=21 7.040 MHz SWR=5.2 R=5 X=34 10.100 MHz SWR=4.6 R=101 X=124 14.060 MHz SWR=6.0 R=7 X=15 18.080 MHz SWR=3.7 R=146 X=80 21.060 MHz SWR=4.5 R=118 X=123 24.906 MHz SWR=3.9 R=11 X=10 28.060 MHz SWR=3.9 R=30 X=54 So how bad does this POS look? Thanks -- JT Croteau - W6FO - Canton, GA | K1 #292 ARS #2,147 | NoGA-QRP | SEDXC | ARRL ______________________________________________________________ QRP-L mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/qrp-l Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
