I prove it every time I'm on the air, Albi. Ask anyone here who has worked me. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by W3MIV
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I prove it every time I'm on the air, Albi. Ask anyone here who has worked me. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by W3MIV
The only HF antennas I've ever used were wire antennas. I have a trio of home-brew J-poles for 2m, 6m and 220 MHz as well a Cushcraft 6m beam I bought used for fifty bucks but everything else is wire.
Add another 200' to the equation as I picked up more window line this weekend.
You have a lot of space... how about a big multiband loop and a vertical combo?
Thanks for the inputs :)
Why not just string some wire as high as you can and use a ladder to feed it? Do something long enough to work 75 and up. A cloud-warmer like I have will not reach out very far on 75, but it covers most of the East Coast at night, and you are entering the only time of year when it is really usable.
Git off'n yer butt an' chuck somethin' up!
75m is usable almost the entire year. Granted the noise is higher during the summer, but I've have DX contacts in June and August.Quote:
Originally Posted by W3MIV
Agreed.Quote:
Git off'n yer butt an' chuck somethin' up!
OK. I wanted to know what yoos guyz thought would work best wit wirz.
I could effectively put up a 160m doublet folded dipole since acquiring more window line. It would be hung all funny though.
I'm looking at a dipole for 80 and a folded dipole for 40 attached to the same point on a 1:1 current balun.
Now, could I go with an OCF on 160 with a folded dipole for 40 attached to the same point and expect it to work fine business on 80?
I'm painting Friday and later I have to do the GF birthday thing and I may have to paint some on Saturday but the weather for the next few days should be antenna erection friendly.
A matchbox is your friend. An 80m dipole will work on 40, and also on 15; with a transmatch, it will work 80 thru ten well. You can easily get away with as little as 100 feet of wire fed with ladder line (attached to your 1:1 current balun at the coax). That is about 3/8 wave on 80. With a decent matchbox, it will work all the bands, including seventeen and thirty. It is what I am using right now, and it works.
Top Band takes some real estate, and you gotta get it up high to be effective. NVIS will work OK for short-range contacts, but to go really far you need to be well up in the air.
Think Marconi antenna with lots of radials. :whistle:Quote:
Originally Posted by W3MIV