160 m dipole, fed with the ladder line and coupled with a matchbox you pick up at the next hamfest. Maybe you can trade the balun for it.
160 m dipole, fed with the ladder line and coupled with a matchbox you pick up at the next hamfest. Maybe you can trade the balun for it.
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
Fuck all that other stuff--just build an isotropic radiator and be done with it.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I built one, but I forgot to attach the transmission line and now I can no longer find it.Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
I do have one of those Yazoo Tenna Toonurs with a connection for balanced line. Add to the equation, 90' of 300 twinlead, probably to be used on the ends to make up for short footage of the windowline.
Just went over my stock of rope. I need to get more. Although I only need 100' sections to hold the wire in place, it takes a 200' section to get the job done. 3 points will require 600'. The trees are right and I just mowed the lawn for the last time this year. (did not forget the Stabil™)
We'll see about that.
Where I live, it's not uncommon to have to mow the lawn in freakin' February.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Unless we start hitting 80's consistently and get some serious regular rain, it will not grow anymore until Spring. Yer talkin' to a 42 year resident. :)
Hold the phone. Sounds like with all the room you could do a rhombic or vee-beam? If so, screw everything else and do that!
If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.
125 linear feet from the main support mast east to west. 80m 40m fan dipole peaking at 80 feet in height at the end of the wire. I will have to get creative with the other half of the dipole. It will probably run north south for 36 feet then turn southwest for another 36' and maybe I don't know what after that.
Does this a folded dipole make for 160m? 125.5 feet west with 450 ohm windowline then capped with a 125.5 section of windowline in folded dipole fashion. Halfwave feedline, halfwave of folded dipole. It will reach a peak height of near 85 feet. The folded dipole section will probably droop in the north and south direction.
Next will be a simple vertical for 15/17m.
It would be great if I could run some wire in the front yard. The big lot next door belongs to the neighbors so, no wire in that yard.
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