How about more on this inverted v at180 feet?
How much twinlead?
How if half-size.
But, here's one.
On the Severn Valley Railway a few weekendds ago,I wasn't directly involved,
they set up a station which consisted of an antenna a long wire matched with
a tuner.
This wire was 97 feet long.
It ran up the side of an out building, across to another building, and
terminated at a fence.
The thing worked amazingly well on 40 meters.
I had a ten station pile up both fromdomestic,and European stations when I
tried it on the Sunday afternoon.
The results were astounding. I live a quarter of a mile away, and can't get
anything like that kind of result with anything I have run.
Right now, all my hf antennas are down, and there is nothing but a long wire
running up and down the side of the house.
But, I am going to try this 97 foot special,and see what it does.
One thing, though when we ran it on the railway, the r.F. in the shack was
incredible. You could have cooked hambergers on the key.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: antenna construction


> The vhf quad is a fascinating idea.  Depends on your resources as far as
> HF.  The g5rv is a fine antenna, but it won't work below 3.5mhz unless you
> double it to 202 feet  for the inverted vee.  Do you need an antenna that
> won't need a tuner?
> I feed 180feet of inverted Vee with 85ft of 450 Ohm twin lead and think it
> is the best HF antenna I have ever used for work between 1.8 and 30mhz
> Howard