I happened to be down at Harbor Freight yesterday and noticed they have 20-foot telescoping aluminum flag poles on sale for $55. That should make a good vertical on 40-10 meters (almost 5/8 wave on 10) with maybe a little bit of top-loading needed on 40. It even comes with an American flag. :=)
Al N1AL On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 20:06 -0400, Tom W8JI wrote: > > The base loading coil is nearly identical in design to the > > toroidal > > coil of AD5X, linked below. I do intend to find 160 & 80m > > tap > > locations for the antenna. > > I hope you have serious top loading. > > I have a video of a base loading coil throwing a two inch > long arc when running 500 watts on 160 meters into a 43-foot > vertical that is mounted over a good ground system. It > looked like the Northern Lights from Macon. :-) > > 73 Tom ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
