Now that the weather is breaking time for a new antenna since the dublet took a beating this winter. Thinking of an Inverted Vee an oldie but goodie and I have trees that would give me 65' height at center. What do you guys think worth it or not??
Now that the weather is breaking time for a new antenna since the dublet took a beating this winter. Thinking of an Inverted Vee an oldie but goodie and I have trees that would give me 65' height at center. What do you guys think worth it or not??
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Always worth it. I am thinking of making a RX only K9AY loop array for weaker stuff and adding a sloper to blast more signal to the east.
Not much room in this yard, so minding the interactions may be tricky. May have to wait till I (finally) move to a better place for antennas, Though I do OK here, I'm similarly space challenged as N8YX and PA5COR's lots. At least I have some decent trees.
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160 thru 10Originally Posted by W5GA
That's a whole lotta traps for one piece of wire. You'll also need to consider that an inverted vee on 160 is 235' or so long, needs a good bit of real estate. You could feed it with window line and use a balanced tuner and not worry about traps. For most, it's the real estate issue though.
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I have 3/4 of an acre, and I'm thinking of feeding it with 600 ohm twin feeders or maybe 450 ohm ladder line to my SA 2040, I changed out the 18 uh roller inductor and replaced it with a 28 uh one so I could get it to work on 160 with old antenna that I was using. Any thought's Russ?
You might take a look at this:
http://www.palstar.com/qstAT1500bal.pdf
Don't know if you run QRO or not, but if you do the built in balun (does it have one?) on your 2040 will probably give up on you.
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Or.....if you're really serious about "Good Old Stand By"....a Johnson Matchbox simply cannot be beat. The small ones go for < $100 if it's not "minty" and will probably be good for a lot more than what they're rated for. Or the the KW matchbox for when you get a 1KW DC input (or output) plate modulated BA on the air!
Also, homebrewing a link-coupled tuner is as close to trivial as a project can be.
But there's a flaw in your logic. It's foolhardy to put up a wire antenna in good weather. Everybody knows that it's been scientifically proven that the worse the weather, the better the antenna will work and the longer it will last. We're probably 2 months past peak antenna raising weather!
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