My 49 years of antenna useage has taught me it is bad to bring the high
voltage end of the antenna down close to the earth because of ground losses
due to the capacity of the antenna to earth. Not to mention the high RF
voltage induced into the shack.
My center fed antennas have all worked muc
Hi Steve,
As long as you mentioned the inverted vee, I thought I'd offer this to think
about. I have been using a 20m center-fed inverted vee with very good
results. And here's the great thing about it... it's a coil of TV
twinlead. One end of the twinlead is split to form the two arms of the
Steve,
If your tuner is of the L network type (like the Elecraft auto-tuners), it
will have a difficult time matching the high impedance of a half wave end
fed antenna. If you want something similar, use the W3EDP length antenna -
an 85 ft. radiating section with a 17 ft. counterpoise wire in pla
This may be silly question? I'm trying to cut down on set up time and
weight for my backpacking journeys into the field with QRP gear. The
end fed halfwave or random wire 'sounds' good to me becasue of the no
feed line and a simple LC tuner can be used. Opposed to CF halfwave
with balanced tuner (
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