What Can I Build With ...

[KG4CGC]

... 100 feet of LMR 400, 60 feet of 450 ohm window line, 500 feet+/- of 10 gauge insulated copper wire and a 1.5KW 1:1 current balun?
Possibly 160m + 80/40m and possible 20m but should be centered around 80/40m.
Got some trees, some rope plus 100 feet of UV Dacron rope. Trees are 100 feet tall in some spots.
Should I use the window line for a folded dipole @20/40 and the 10ga wire fore a 160/80 connected to the same point on the balun?

I'm all ears.

PS, have 20 feet of heavy duty tv mast on the ground, can get about 10 or 20 more. One mast already up at 36 feet that I could also use to support the center but mast wise, can't go over 40 feet without getting into some really serious support stuff.

[NQ6U]

I'd suggest an inverted L antenna for 160 m, but that's just me.

BTW, did you get those photos I sent?

[KG4CGC]

I'd suggest an inverted L antenna for 160 m, but that's just me.

Would it change for the worse if it came out more like an inverted J?

[NQ6U]

Would it change for the worse if it came out more like an inverted J?

Hard to say, I am certainly no great expert.

Give it a try, you never know about stuff like that. I made a 6m antenna using copper pipe and an old water heater, it works great, and that's what makes ham radio a fun hobby

[KG4CGC]

Ah yes I did. Thank you berry much. No worries, I use a crappy cell phone sometimes and have pulled miracles out of my miracle puller.

[NQ6U]

Ah yes I did. Thank you berry much. No worries, I use a crappy cell phone sometimes and have pulled miracles out of my miracle puller.

Glad you got 'em. Some pretty nice items, you ought to be able to use at least some of them.

[KG4CGC]

Well once it goes up, it doesn't come back down except for catastrophic failure. I've considered using a pulley system at 4 points to raise and lower it. That would mean counter weights at each of the 4 points.

[N2CHX]

Well once it goes up, it doesn't come back down except for catastrophic failure. I've considered using a pulley system at 4 points to raise and lower it. That would mean counter weights at each of the 4 points.

I always make my antenna's so they can come down and go back up easily. You have some pretty interesting stuff to work with. Might I suggest an end-fed Zepp? Good performing antenna and it seems it would maybe alleviate your not having the room to put up a proper inverted L. It seems you already have all the ingredients you need to build one and it might work out quite nicely for you as long as you have a good ground to work with. You will also need a balun or a tuner with a balanced output. Design it for the band you use most and it should also tune and work well on other bands.


I once built an end-fed Zepp to get an AM station back on the air after a tower failure. It worked quite well.

[W2NAP]

I once built an end-fed Zepp to get an AM station back on the air after a tower failure. It worked quite well.

got pics?

[N2CHX]

got pics?

Somewhere on a disk, yes. This was about eight years ago. I have video of the tower coming down too. Somewhere.