Ron:

Thanks for these ideas.

They are well worth considering.

I can't lash the fishing pole to the RV's ladder because that's where my
VHF/UHF antenna is, but there may be another possibility.

Will keep you posted if I can work out the details successfully.

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: End Fed Zep Antenna


> Hi everyone,
> Though this hasn't been mentioned in the recent threads, I've found the no
> counterpoise antenna and 20 foot crappie pole combo to work well. The
> shorter version is 25 feet of zip cord (two conductor insulated wire) you
> can split the two conductors apart from one end to the 12.5 foot point and
> remove the 12.5 foot section of one conductor thus freed. The goal is to 
> end
> up with zip cord with a 25 foot conductor and a 12.5 foot conductor. I 
> load
> this quite successfully through a 4-1 balun into my IC-703+ It will work
> from 6-20 meters and requires no counterpoise. If you don't want to split
> the zip cord and remove half of one conductor, you can remove a few inches
> of one of the conductors, creating the necessary 12.5 foot wire, just be
> sure to make a gap big enough to ensure no coupling. You can make longer
> versions to be able to load lower bands, the technique is the same, simply
> remove 1/2 of one of the conductors and make it 50 feet, 100 feet, etc. My
> plan is to make a 50-foot version as an inverted l so that I can try it on
> 40-meters and I'd really like to try a 100-foot version and see how it 
> works
> on 80. This is, as I understand it, another twist on the end-fed zepp.
>
> You can buy these 20-foot fishing poles for less than $20, I got mine for
> $12 and change. You could lash it vertically to the top of the motor home,
> perhaps on the rail at the top of the ladder which is on the back of many
> motor homes. That would get the top of the pole a good 30 feet off the
> ground and make it easy to deploy the 25 or 50 foot version and the 
> 100-foot
> flat top would be within reach, as well.
>
> 73 all
>
> Ron Miller