of the
antenna?
Thanks for any illumination.
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From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Max Robinson
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 20:57
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
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Stephan wstep...@everestkc.net
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:01 AM
Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Antenna construction question
Max:
What if I'm using a battery-operated receiver and want to have an external
antenna. Would I use two wires? I had thought
Bill,
It gets a little complex, but actually by connecting the parallel wires
in a coil like that together, you've caused a mighty phase cancelation and \
defeated the purpose of the long wire.
What you want is either an antenna that's tuned to the frequency you want
to hear, hard because you
Those are called loop antennas and are a whole lot of turns of fine wire
wound flat like a pancake. But they have a pretty narrow bandwidth so will
only do well at a small portion of the bands you want to hear. That's why I
didn't reccommend one for general shortwave listening.
It would be
clifford,
I've always wanted a big horizontal loop like that except I'd
like to feed it with open wire line to a modern
line tuner. The infamous broadcaster Art Bell had one out in
the nevada desert that was 1400 feet on a side, up at 60 feet. Now that's
an antenna to dream of.
73s
Tom WA6IVG
william,
You don't ground the antenna except in some weird cases.
Every antenna is actually two elements, one may be a wire or a vertical
whip, and the other is often ground.
Or you can have so-called dipoles which are two identical elements end to end.
The arguments about what is a real ground
, kind of like dog training I guess.
Thanks again.
Bill Stephan,
Kansas City MO
Email: wstep...@everestkc.net
Phone: (816)803-2469
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From: carl carl...@googlemail.com
Date: 12/16/2008 14:47
hav you thort of a di
I didn't know there were active antennas like that available Tom, so thanks,
I'll check into these.
Bill Stephan,
Kansas City MO
Email: wstep...@everestkc.net
Phone: (816)803-2469
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From: Tom Fowle fo...@ski.org
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From: Max Robinson m...@maxsmusicplace.com
Date: 12/16/2008 12:22
Does your receiver have two antenna connections or an antenna and a ground?
A loop antenna has two wires coming out
Bill,
Usually, perticularly inolder places, a plumbing vent pipe is grounded.
but if there is any chance of PVC pipe anywhere in the stack, you might get
fooled.
It won't hurt anything, just won't perform as well as it might.
if you have a handy dandy talking meter, you could test the
Dear Max and list members:
The best ham antennas I have ever had were full-wave loop antennas. On 75
meters, the square was roughly sixty feet per side, with four sides. I
constructed the loop with number 14 copper-clad steel wire, with a matching one
to one transformer at the corner and
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From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]
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Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 23:55
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Antenna construction question
Hi William.
You could fill an entire library
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 7:30 PM
Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Antenna construction question
Thanks to all who have answered this one for me. Can somebody explain how
to and why we should ground antennas? If memory serves, when I have
touched
an antenna wire to a ground, like plumming
I hope this is topical here. I'm thinking about buying myself one of those
continuous coverage radios that are made by Grundig, I'm looking at a
satellite actually. So, I think I need an antenna. If I can avoid it, I'd
rather not install one out of doors, though I guess I could if there was no
:23 PM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Antenna construction question
I hope this is topical here. I'm thinking about buying myself one of those
continuous coverage radios that are made by Grundig, I'm looking at a
satellite actually. So, I think I need an antenna. If I can avoid it, I'd
rather
Thanks Lenny, I'll check it out.
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On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 17:54
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direction and it would change the reception.
Yours Truly,
Clifford Wilson
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Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:23 PM
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I hope
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From: William Stephan wstep...@everestkc.net
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Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:23 PM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Antenna construction question
I hope this is topical here. I'm thinking about buying myself one of those
continuous
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