Did anyone retain the long summary about matching inverted L antennae on 160
meters? I seem to have deleted it and Steve, AA3JI, is very interested.
For the record, my inverted L is about 150 ft. long with half vertical. I
use it on both 160 and 80 meter cw. The matching for 160 is a series coil
(about 275 picofarad) and the matching for the 80 meter band is a tapped coil
which makes the electrical length about 3/4 wave. My radials consist of 1000
ft. of buried wire at various lengths (didn't want to disturb my neighbor's
yard) and whatever else I could attach to like eight ground rods and a cox
fence. It is very competitive on 80 meter cw, and good on 160 but my
receiving noise is the limitation there.
Thanks for reading this. Hope you can help Steve, AA3JI
(aa3ji@internetmci.com).
73 de John, WA5TWL
hamforever@aol.com
>From AD1C@tiac.net (Jim Reisert AD1C) Sun Mar 31 16:18:57 1996
From: AD1C@tiac.net (Jim Reisert AD1C) (Jim Reisert AD1C)
Subject: TO5T
Message-ID: <199603311620.LAA02888@mailserver1.tiac.net>
TO callsigns are NEVER mainland France, they are the overseas territories.
Unfortunately, there are no strict rules on exactly which overseas
territory. For example, TO5M has been used both in Martinique and St.
Pierre et Miquelon (FP).
TO5T was in Martinique.
73 - Jim AD1C
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Jim Reisert <AD1C@tiac.net>
http://ve7tcp.ampr.org/~reisert/
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