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[Amps] Another L measurement of 2" Cu strap

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Subject: [Amps] Another L measurement of 2" Cu strap
From: 2@mail.vcnet.com (Richard)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:12:51 -0800
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>> EUR  yea, verily.  I use a Hertz antenna on 40m.
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>> ::You have a "40 meter rig?"  My rig only has one meter.  Where did you
>> mount the other 39?  (ta-da-dum <rimshot>)
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>> ::A Hertz antenna?  Don't you mean a Hertz rental car?  Or flea collar?
>> (another rimshot, I'm on a roll...)
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>> ::Okay, now seriously: Rich, can you describe your 40m Hertz antenna?  

?  ... an end-fed [against gnd] dipole.  The tuner is on the window sill. 
 The wire goes out the louvered glass window and up at an angle. There is 
much V and little I at the window.  I use an air-wound coax choke balun 
at the input to the tuner.  The tuner ground should Not be connected to 
the radio or the amplifier since the I in the gnd for the tuner is = to 
the I going into the antenna.

>> I'm investigating various wires for 40m, to put up during the sunny summer,
>> for use next sunny winter...
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?  For a long life setup, use braided phosphor-bronze antenna wire.  



-  R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K, 
www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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