This would probably be a good place for an FCP radial system. Takes up a lot less room. http://www.w8ji.com/fcp_folded_counterpoise_system.htm Tom W7WHY ______________________________________________
There used to be a Loran C station at Cape Blanco, just south of Coos Bay. They had a 1200 footer there and a 300 for a spare in case the big one blew down. There were winds of over 100 mph quite oft
Hi All I have a homebrew 2-el 20 meter monobander and I would like to add a 15 meter 2-el on the same boom. I have only been able to find commercial antennas, but nothing for building one. Does anyon
That is why I asked the question :-) I could just stick a 2-el 15 on the boom and call it good, but don't think it is that easy. I know there are a lot of beams out there that just look like they sti
Hi Kirk To get the feel of a vertical, could you try shorting the feedline of the dipole together at the shack end and load it up as a top loaded vertical (with some radials of course)? Might be bett
I remember back when I had a Gotham quad. Piece of crap antenna, right?? Would never work according to the models, right?? With aluminum spreaders no way it could work, right?? Had it on a 30 foot pu
Interesting thread. I remember once I put up an 80 meter dipole and used some plastic closeline on one end (without an insulator) to hoist it up into the tree. I went into the shack, test the SWR and
So - could this be used to fee a ground mounted vertical? 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk
Back in '54 when I put up my first antenna, I used the old telephone 'twisted pair' for a feed line. Used to be a lot of that stuff around. Ran a Heathkit AT-1 at about 25 watts to a 6L6 and made lot
Sorry, Russ, but My Hero's Wear Combat Boots, too. I can't see making fun of our young men and women that are in the military right now, (and the ones who were in before). Don't understand why that w
The stuff we had back in the 60's was really kinky and hard to handle. Worse than copperweld! 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ ____________________________________________
I hope he is not going to use a balun with the open wire line. 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Towe
I was just looking at an antenna article in an older ARRL publication last night and it showed an inverted 'L' for 160. It had one radial. They claim the gain is 3dB in the direction of the radial la
It all depends on what your interests are. A long vertical has a lot of horizontal takeoff compared to a quarter wave antenna. That is why the 40 meter vertical isn't a DX antenna. 73 Tom W7WHY I am
Hi All I am making an antenna to take along when I am camping. I'm thinking of the EFHW for it's ease of operation and construction. Most of the designs I've seen on the 'net are for 80 - 10 meter mo
Hi All This might seem like a silly question, but is it possible to make a 150pf capacitor out of RG-58? Thanks and I need one for an EFHW I am building. 73 Tom W7WHY ________________________________
Well - talk about a brain fart - I was thinking that the capacitance was in mFd, not pF. Seesh! Easy to figure out thenI know the right nomenclature Tom W7WHY ________________________________________
Nothing to level. It's not a contest :-) 74 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com h
Hi all I'm working on another EFHW and I have some 2,4" mix 43 toroids. I made one EFHW with a mix 31 2.4" toroid and it works really well. Will the mix 43 work as well as the mix 31 on 60 thru 20? T
Hi All I have a BUNCH of some kind of multi wire cable that * picked up ag Goodwill*. It has 6 separate wires in the cable. What I was wondering is if I use this for antenna wire, will the capacitanc