I feed it with ladder line and use a tuner. Now it would be possible to use
a 4:1 balun and coax into your internal tuner (a bit quicker because of
memories). Alternatively you can put up a low dipole for each of the bands
of interest. They all work. I like a loop because it is simple, reduces
the number of feedlines and has some gain over a dipole. I am sure there
are better solutions out there. This was a solution I used before I gave up
-----Original Message-----
From: Rudy Bakalov [mailto:r_bakalov@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 1:37 PM
To: D. Scott MacKenzie <kb0fhp@verizon.net>
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Omnidirectional antenna for domestic contests
How would you feed it on 20-15-10 meters? Would like to avoid tuners during
contests.
Rudy N2WQ
Sent using a tiny keyboard. Please excuse brevity, typos, or inappropriate
autocorrect.
> On Oct 4, 2015, at 1:30 PM, D. Scott MacKenzie <kb0fhp@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I personally like a simple 80M loop. Nice high angle of radiation,
> simple and inexpensive
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Rudy Bakalov via TowerTalk
> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 10:19 AM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Omnidirectional antenna for domestic contests
>
> Looking at the number of states worked during CQ WW RTTY it is pretty
> obvious I need antennas for working the US and Canada on 20-15-10 from
> my
> VE3 QTH. I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.
>
> Currently considering 1) vertical dipoles and 2) a curtain of 3
> stacked dipoles (or inverted Vs) from 10' to 30'.
>
> Anything else? Do keep in mind that from VE3 the US is from ~160 to
> ~330 degrees azimuth and I do not want to rotate the antenna.
>
> Rudy N2WQ
>
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> inappropriate autocorrect.
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