If you just had another few feet of ladder line to reach from your shack to
your feedpoint, Ron, my answer would be easy. The classic 88 ft center fed
doublet which your tuner would load fine on 80 thru 10. With the center at
50 ft, it would give you good coverage over the US on the low bands. B
Hi JT
You mentioned the tree with a 50 ft support point.
What do you have to support the ends of your wires?
Also, what kind of real estate do you have to spread out
over? That would help us a lot in suggesting something.
Good luck and 73
Bob N6WG
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From: "JT Croteau" <[
Jim,
That OCF sounds interesting, and I'm also in a restricted
neighborhood, but what is a '1/2 wavelength of coax' for an antenna
that covers 80 thru 10 meters?
Mark AD5SS
On 6/12/06, James T. Jim Rogers, W4ATK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gee,
I live in a restricted neighborhood and I
Gee,
I live in a restricted neighborhood and I could not be happier with my
40M
off center fed dipole I have stapled to the "ridgepole" in my garden home. I
mounted a 4:1 balun at the feed point and fed it with 1/2 wavelength of
coax. It works 80 thru 10 meters and is easily tuned with my
Take a look at the Ten Tec Vee beam, then remember that a non terminated Vee
beam is bi directional, so you do not need the termination resistors. Make
it up as a one support sloping vee as long as will fit your lot with the
angles suggested, 45 degrees. You can stake out the lower ends with
Don W3FPR wrote:
The theory is that the 80 meter wire will also serve on the 3rd harmonic at
30 meters and the 40 meter element will similarly serve on 15 as a 3/2
wavelength antenna, giving you coverage of 80 thru 15 meters with the 3
elements.
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Ha, Ha! Good point, Don. Shows h
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My only antenna currently here at the home QTH is an HF2V vertical which
does great for long haul DX on 40 and 80 but in general is not good for
local or regional work. I just launched some monofilament over the only
high branch in my yard at 50'.
As I only have a sing
I would suggest a fanned dipole configuration with elements cut for 80, 40
and 20 meters - feed it with the RG-213 directly (or through a balun if you
have one).
Cut the elements for 40 and 20 plenty long (about 15%) and cut the 80 meter
elements for the low part of the band (3.5 MHz). You will h
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